KWOS

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KWOS
KWOS News Radio 950 AM 104.5 FM logo.png
Broadcast areaMid-Missouri
Frequency 950 kHz
BrandingNews Radio KWOS 950 AM 104.5 FM
Programming
Format News–talk
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Zimmer Radio
  • (Zimmer Radio of Mid-Missouri, Inc)
KATI
History
First air date
1954 (1954) (as KLIK)
Former call signs
KLIK (1954–1999)
Call sign meaning
Keep Watching Our State
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 9927
Class B
Power
  • 5,000 watts day
  • 500 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 38°31′13.12″N92°10′42.66″W / 38.5203111°N 92.1785167°W / 38.5203111; -92.1785167
Translator(s) 104.5 K283CL (Jefferson City)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website kwos.com

KWOS (950 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a conservative talk format. Licensed to Jefferson City, Missouri, United States, the station serves the Mid-Missouri area. The station is currently owned by Zimmer Radio of Mid-Missouri, Inc and features programming from Fox News Radio, Compass Media Networks, Genesis Communications Network, Premiere Networks, USA Radio Network, and Westwood One. [2]

Contents

History

KWOS debuted, as KLIK in 1954. In 1999, the station swapped call letters with an existing station on AM 1240, becoming KWOS.

The KWOS call sign referenced an earlier Jefferson City radio station, WOS, that was set up by Missouri Agriculture Commissioner Jewell A. Mayes to facilitate agricultural commerce. [3] WOS was first licensed on February 23, 1922, [4] and was deleted on March 27, 1936. [5] The original KWOS on AM 1240 was established in 1937. The original 1240 KWOS was carried on 250 watts and featured programming from Mutual Broadcasting System, and from the 1950s until the mid-1970s, the station carried a Top 40 music format. KWOS also formerly carried St. Louis Cardinals baseball games for 68 years from 1938 until 2006. [6]

Former logo before translator change KWOS 950-101.1newsradio logo.jpg
Former logo before translator change

Programming

Weekday syndicated programming on KWOS includes The Sean Hannity Show, The Glenn Beck Program, Gary Nolan, Coast to Coast AM, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Gordon Deal, and Mark Levin. Unlike most news/talk stations in the United States, KWOS is one of several news/talk stations in the United States that does not primarily air brokered paid or religious programming on weekends. The station previously aired local religious programming on Sunday mornings until it was removed in 2023. Syndicated programming on both Saturdays and Sundays include Gordon Deal, Bret Baier, Dave Ramsey, Tom Shillue, Bill Cunningham, and Kim Komando (the only brokered program on KWOS). Local sports programming was also aired on Saturday mornings, as well as simulcasts of Fox News Sunday on Sunday mornings. The station was formerly a longtime affiliate of The Rush Limbaugh Show. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KWOS". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "KWOS Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "Missouri Goes in For Wireless", The Country Gentleman, May 27, 1922, pages 12, 16.
  4. ↑ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, March 1, 1922, page 2.
  5. ↑ "Additions, Changes and Deletions to List: (3) Deletions From List", Radio Service Bulletin, April 15, 1936, page 3.
  6. ↑ KWOS marking 80 years of service, Jefferson City News-Tribune, January 29, 2017
  7. ↑ On-Air Schedule (KWOS.com)
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