KINY

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KINY
Broadcast area Alaska Panhandle
Frequency 800 kHz C-QUAM AM stereo
BrandingHometown Radio 800 and 94.9 KINY
Programming
Format Classic hits
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Local First Media Group
  • (BTC USA Holdings Management Inc.)
KSUP, KXXJ
History
First air date
May 31, 1935
Call sign meaning
Randomly issued by the FCC [1]
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 823
Class B
Power
  • 10,000 watts day
  • 7,600 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
58°18′3.55″N134°26′33.02″W / 58.3009861°N 134.4425056°W / 58.3009861; -134.4425056
Translator(s) see below
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website www.kinyradio.com

KINY (800 AM) is a radio station licensed to Juneau, Alaska, serving southeast Alaska. Owned by Local First Media Group, it broadcasts a classic hits format.

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History

KINY began broadcasting on May 31, 1935, at 7:30 p.m. [3] It was located in the Goldstein Building until 1939, when the building was destroyed by fire on February 8, 1939. [4] The Decker Building in downtown Juneau then served as KINY's headquarters for decades. The station moved into the building on October 28, 1940. [5] The Decker Building burned down in June 1984. [6]

KINY and its sister station KSUP were bought by Alaska Broadcast Communications in June 2008. [7] [8]

In October 2022, KINY, sister stations KSUP and KXXJ, and eight translators were sold to Cliff Dumas' Local First Media Group for $1.3 million. [9] After the sale, the station began to back away from its previous full service positioning in 2024, with Dumas stating that he wanted the station to have a "stronger musical identity". This resulted in the cancellation of its long-running call-in show Problem Corner (which was converted to a podcast), and the layoffs of its two full-time news reporters in May 2024. [9] [10] Most of the station's online news content now consisted primarily of wire stories, press releases, and articles created with generative AI. [11]

Programming

Notable regular syndicated broadcasts include:

KINY carries news from ABC News Radio and live sports from the Seattle Mariners and the Seattle Seahawks.

Translators

Logo used until June 2008. KINY(till 2008) logo.jpg
Logo used until June 2008.
Logo from June 2008 until late 2012. KINY former logo (2008-2012).png
Logo from June 2008 until late 2012.
Logo from late 2016 to late 2018 advertising the 103.5 signal as the primary translator. KINY-AM 2016.png
Logo from late 2016 to late 2018 advertising the 103.5 signal as the primary translator.

In addition to the main station, KINY has an additional five translators to widen its broadcast area.

Broadcast translators for KINY
Call sign Frequency City of license FID FCC info
K280DX103.9 FM Angoon, Alaska 821 LMS
K279AF103.7 FM Haines, Alaska 82616 LMS
K280ED103.9 FM Hoonah, Alaska 777 LMS
K235DA94.9 FM Juneau, Alaska 202194 LMS
K278GE103.5 FM Kake, Alaska 32949 LMS
K284AM104.7 FM Skagway, Alaska 137761 LMS

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