WKSN

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WKSN
WKSN 1340 logo.png
Broadcast area Jamestown and vicinity
Frequency 1340 kHz
BrandingWKSN Legends
Programming
Format Adult standards
Affiliations Cleveland Guardians Radio Network
Erie Otters
Ownership
Owner
  • Media One Radio Group
  • (Media One Holdings, LLC)
WHUG, WJTN, WKZA, WQFX-FM, WWSE
History
First air date
February 26, 1948
(76 years ago) (1948-02-26)
Former call signs
WJOC (1948–1961)
WXYJ (1961–1963)
Call sign meaning
 Kissin' (previous formats)
Technical information
Facility ID 65592
Class C
Power 260 watts day
520 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 42°6′17″N79°15′27″W / 42.10472°N 79.25750°W / 42.10472; -79.25750
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website wksn.com

WKSN (1340 AM) is a commercial adult standards radio station licensed to Jamestown, New York. Owned by Media One Radio Group, the station serves as a local affiliate for the Cleveland Guardians Radio Network.

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History

AM 1340 signed on in 1948 as WJOC. It was one of two new Western New York stations to sign on following the move of Buffalo station WEBR from the 1340 frequency to AM 970 [1] (now WDCZ) that year; the other was Lockport's then-WUSJ (now WLVL). [2] What is now WKSN used the call sign WXYJ in the mid-1960s before adopting the WKSN call sign and "Kissin'" slogan by no later than 1968. For most of its early history, WKSN played a Top 40 format using the "Good Guys" slogan. [3] A television sister station, WNYP (channel 26), signed on in 1966, when both stations were owned by Bud Paxson; channel 26 shut down after three years and its license is now being used by a religious station. During the 1990s and early 2000s, WKSN (Kissin' Oldies) was an oldies outlet carrying a local morning show and a midday show by Paul Hoefler (now performing commercial jingles in the area), as well the satellite Good Time Oldies from Jones Radio Networks until the station was bought out by Media One Group, LLC in 2003.

Soon after Media One's purchase, WKSN began being used as a counterprogramming station to the other AM radio station in Jamestown, WJTN, also owned by Media One Group. From approximately 2004 until the summer of 2008, the station ran with shows such as Rush Limbaugh (counterprogrammed to a liberal program known as The Hall Closet on WJTN), Imus in the Morning, Bill Bennett, Dr. Dean Edell and Glenn Beck, as well as affiliations with Talk Radio Network and FOX Sports Radio. On July 4, 2008, WKSN switched back to the oldies format. With the change to oldies (and The Hall Closet's discontinuation), Edell, Beck and Ed Schultz were moved to sister station WJTN (Schultz actually began airing on WJTN on June 23, 2008 in Ray Hall's time slot, so both WJTN and WKSN were airing Schultz from June 23 to July 3, 2008), while Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the market altogether (after a brief stint on rival station WLKW-FM, the show has again been absent from the southwestern New York airwaves). Not long afterward, WJTN also changed to a music format, extending its adult standards/MOR format (at the time only played on Jim Roselle's show) throughout the day.

WKSN's 2008-23 logo as Kissin' Oldies, now on WKZA. WKSN logo.png
WKSN's 2008–23 logo as Kissin' Oldies, now on WKZA.

WKSN was an affiliate of Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel until that station ceased terrestrial distribution in June 2014. [4] WKSN was an affiliate of NFL on Westwood One then moved to sister station WJTN; for many years, it was the radio home of the Jamestown Jammers (Jammers broadcasts were dropped from WKSN several years before the team left Jamestown; its successors, the Tarp Skunks, air instead on WRFA).

WKSN began streaming its programming on the Internet in November 2019. [5]

In September 2022, the Erie Otters announced a radio broadcast partnership with WKSN beginning in the 2022-2023 OHL season. [6]

On July 1, 2023 the "Kissin' Oldies" format on WKSN moved to FM 106.9 WKZA, also historically known as "KISS FM." In its place, WKSN will air an adult standards format previously heard on sister station WJTN. [7]

Programming

Since 2014, WKSN has had no disc jockeys and has run a primarily automated library.

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References

  1. ↑ Buffalo Broadcasting Landmarks Today: 1936 Blaw-Knox Tower In The Larkin District. Buffalo Broadcasters Association. April 13, 2024. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  2. ↑ History of WLVL. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  3. ↑ "WKSN 1340 Jamestown".
  4. ↑ "Radio Stations". Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel. Archived from the original on July 28, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Listen Live - Media One Radio Group (WWSE | WJTN | WHUG | WKSN | WQFX | WKZA)".
  6. ↑ "Listen Live – Erie Otters".
  7. ↑ Adjustments. Media One Radio Group press release. Retrieved July 1, 2023.
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