KAAA

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KAAA
KZZZ KAAA 1490-1230 logo.jpg
Frequency 1230 kHz
BrandingKAAA fm 97.5
Programming
Format News Talk Information
Affiliations Fox News, Premiere Networks, Westwood One, Salem Radio Network and others.
Ownership
OwnerCameron Broadcasting, Inc.
KZZZ
History
First air date
October 17, 1949
Former call signs
KGAN (1949–1956)
Call sign meaning
Double meaning of "A to Z" and both stations standing for AriZona's postal abbreviation
Technical information
Facility ID 55492
Class C
Power 1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates
 35°9′49″N114°4′12″W / 35.16361°N 114.07000°W / 35.16361; -114.07000
Translator(s)
  • 97.5 K248CO (Kingman)
  • 98.3 K252FW (Kingman)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website talkatoz.com
Previous logo prior to the translators signing on. Kaaakzzzlogo.jpg
Previous logo prior to the translators signing on.

KAAA (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format, licensed to Kingman, Arizona, United States. The station is currently owned by Cameron Broadcasting, Inc. and forms a full-time simulcast with KZZZ in Bullhead City. The stations feature programming from Fox News, Premiere Networks, Westwood One and Salem Radio Network among others. [1]

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History

KGAN signed on October 7, 1949. [2] It broadcast with 250 watts on 1230 kHz. [3] The station, an ABC affiliate, was sold in early 1956 by original owner J. James Glancy to Wallace Stone and John F. Holbrook for $25,000; [4] the new owners changed the call letters to the present KAAA on February 19, 1956. [3] Stone bought out Holbrook two years later, and in 1963, the station was authorized to increase daytime power to 1,000 watts. [3] Stone sold KAAA in 1971 for $225,000 to Sun Mountain Broadcasting, the principals of which included an FM station applicant in Lake Havasu City and a station salesman. [5] Under Sun Mountain, a companion FM station, KZZZ 92.7 (now KFLG-FM 94.7), was launched. By the time KAAA-KZZZ was sold to Mohave Sun Broadcasting in 1981, [6] KAAA broadcast a mixed Top 40-country format. [7]

In 2001, KAAA was consolidated with KZZZ at that station's Bullhead City studio base. The former Kingman studio and transmitter building was demolished in 2014 to allow redevelopment of the land. [8] Cameron currently maintains studios in Kingman, Bullhead City and Lake Havasu City.

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References

  1. ↑ "KAAA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ "KAAA" (PDF). Broadcasting Yearbook. 1970. p. B-11 (211). Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 FCC History Cards for KAAA
  4. ↑ "KGAN Kingman, Ariz., Sold" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 2, 1956. p. 65. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting. December 27, 1971. p. 27 (29). Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  6. ↑ "For the Record" (PDF). Broadcasting. May 25, 1981. p. 96. Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  7. ↑ "KAAA(AM)" (PDF). Broadcasting Yearbook. 1981. p. C-11 (289). Retrieved May 26, 2020.
  8. ↑ Abella, Ryan (April 10, 2014). "A piece of Kingman history makes way for development". Kingman Daily Miner. Retrieved May 26, 2020– via Rose Law Group Reporter.
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