KIML

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KIML
KIML 1270 Logo.jpg
Frequency 1270 kHz
BrandingNewstalk 1270
Programming
Format Defunct, was news/talk
Affiliations Fox Sports Radio, Fox News Radio, Cowboy Sports Network
Ownership
OwnerLegend Communications of Wyoming, LLC
KAML-FM, KDDV, KGWY, KLED
History
First air date
September 1957 (1957-09)
Last air date
April 12, 2024 (2024-04-12)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 24212
Class D
Power
  • 1,000 watts day
  • 40 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 44°18′9.2″N105°29′52.8″W / 44.302556°N 105.498000°W / 44.302556; -105.498000
Translator(s)
  • 106.7 K294BD (Gillette)
  • 107.5 K298CT (Gillette)
Links
Public license information
Website KIML website

KIML (1270 AM) was a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. It was licensed to Gillette, Wyoming, United States. The station was owned by the Basin Radio Network, a division of Legend Communications of Wyoming, LLC. It featured programming from Fox News Radio and Wyoming Cowboys sports. [2]

Contents

KIML and its four sister stations, KAML-FM, KGWY, KLED and KDDV, are located at 2810 Southern Drive, Gillette. KIML's transmitter site was north of town, on Hannum Road. The translator for KIML shared a tower with KGWY and KLED near the station's studios. [3]

History

The station went on the air as KIML at 1490 kHz in September 1957, initially owned by Gillette Broadcasting Company. The transmitter was located at 405 Lakeside Avenue, along with the studio. The area has since been redeveloped and the transmitter was relocated north to its final location, near the Gillette Gun Club. The station stayed on 1490 for the next nine years, before switching to 1270 kHz in 1966, and increasing power from 250 watts to 1,000 watts day, and 5,000 watts night with a directional pattern. [4]

In the late 1970s, the station carried a country music format. [5] The station was at one time involved in the decision by the FCC to implement AM stereo. Then-owner Roy A. Napel wrote to the FCC expressing disappointment that a system had not been chosen yet. [6] AM Stereo had its roots as far back as the 1920s, but the FCC let the marketplace decide the system to approve, which resulted in stations broadcasting stereo using different standards. It would not be until the 1980s before Motorola's C-QUAM system began taking hold. The standard was short lived, and it is unknown whether KIML ever broadcast in AM stereo.

KIML once carried the program "Sound of 77", provided by Billboard Broadcasting Company. [7]

Legend Communications acquired KIML and sister KAML-FM in 2006. [8]

In April 2015, KIML began broadcasting using an FM translator on 106.7 FM. The translator previously carried programming from KQFR in Rapid City, South Dakota. It then began broadcasting on a translator on 107.5 FM.

In 2019, the Basin Radio Group including KIML, named Ted Peiffer as their general manager. Peiffer had experience working in radio in the Rapid City market. [9]

On April 12, 2024, the license for KIML and its translator were cancelled by Legend Communications. The station ceased on air operations the same day. [10] [11] The Federal Communications Commission cancelled the station’s license on April 26, 2024. [12]

The station had a pending application to move the tower closer to its studios which Legend chose not to follow through with. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KIML". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "KIML Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "KK298CT GILLETTE WY". FCCData.org. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  4. ↑ "KIML Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  5. ↑ "Billboard's Country Music Source Book". Billboard . 1978. p. 61. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  6. ↑ Mark J. Braun (1994). AM Stereo and the FCC Case Study of a Marketplace Shibboleth. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 69. ISBN   978-0-89391-966-5 . Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  7. ↑ "The Sound of '77". Billboard Newspaper. January 21, 1978. p. 37. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  8. ↑ "Transfers". Federal Communications Commission. August 11, 2006. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  9. ↑ "Legend Communications/Gillette Names Ted Peiffer as GM". Radio-Online.com. March 15, 2019. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Cancellation Application". Federal Communications Commission. April 12, 2024. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  11. ↑ "FCC Report". RadioInsight.com. April 14, 2024. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
  12. ↑ "License Cancelled". Federal Communications Commission Licensing and Management System. April 26, 2024. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
  13. ↑ "KIML Gillette, WY". FCCData.org. Retrieved April 17, 2024.
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