KRMG (AM)

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KRMG
Broadcast area Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Frequency 740 kHz
BrandingNews 102.3 and AM 740 KRMG
Programming
Language(s) English
Format Talk radio
Affiliations ABC News Radio
Fox News Radio
Compass Media Networks
Premiere Networks
Radio America
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
December 31, 1949 (1949-12-31)
Call sign meaning
founding owners Kerr and McGee
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 48729
Class B
Power 50,000  watts day
25,000 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
 36°04′50″N96°17′09″W / 36.08056°N 96.28583°W / 36.08056; -96.28583
Repeater(s) 102.3  KRMG-FM (Sand Springs)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Listen live (via  Audacy)
Website www.krmg.com

KRMG (740 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Cox Media Group and airs a conservative news/talk radio format, simulcast with co-owned 102.3 KRMG-FM. The studios and offices are located on South Memorial Drive near Interstate 44 in Tulsa. [2]

Contents

KRMG's transmitter is located at a six-tower array on Tower Road in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. [3] KRMG broadcasts at 50,000 watts by day, the maximum power permitted for American AM stations. But it drops its power to 25,000 watts at night and uses a directional antenna at all times to protect other stations on AM 740. Three towers are used during the day, providing at least secondary coverage to almost all of Oklahoma, as well as portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas and Texas. At night, power is fed to all six towers to protect Class A CFZM Toronto, concentrating the signal in the Tulsa and Oklahoma City areas. KRMG-AM-FM are also heard on Channel 1980 through Cox's digital cable service. The AM station is the Oklahoma primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System.

Programming

Weekdays begin with The KRMG Morning News anchored by Dan Potter. The KRMG Evening News is anchored by Skyler Cooper in PM drive time. The rest of the weekday schedule is made up of nationally syndicated talk shows hosted by Sean Hannity, Erick Erickson, Brian Kilmeade, Dana Loesch, Jimmy Failla, Mark Kaye and Markley, Van Camp & Robbins.

Weekends feature shows on money, health, real estate, cars, gardening, home repair, law and technology, some of which are paid brokered programming. Weekend hosts include Kim Komando, Bill Handel and Chad Benson. KRMG-AM-FM have a local news and weather sharing arrangement with co-owned Fox affiliate KOKI-TV (channel 23), with world and national news supplied by ABC News Radio.

History

On December 31, 1949, KRMG first signed on. [4] It was founded by Kerr-McGee Oil Company partners Robert S. Kerr and Dean McGee. The call sign was chosen to take two letters from the names of the founding owners, KerR and McGee. Kerr, at the time a U. S. Senator, wanted a station that would provide a strong signal to Oklahoma City as well as Tulsa. At the same time, KRMG had to conform its signal to protect co-channel stations to the north and south. The station was powered at 50,000 watts in the daytime to achieve the desired footprint. Power was originally reduced to 10,000 watts at night. Six towers were constructed to create a directional pattern at night while hitting Oklahoma City as well as Tulsa.

In 1957, KRMG was acquired by the Meredith Corporation, a publishing and broadcasting company. [5] It was a CBS Radio Network affiliate. KRMG aired a full service middle of the road format from the 1950s to the early 70s.

In 1961, KRMG was acquired by Swanco Broadcasting. That same year, it added an FM sister station, KRMG-FM at 95.5 MHz. [6] At first it simulcast AM 740 but later switched to beautiful music as KWEN, and in 1982 it flipped to country music. KWEN changed ownership over the years but today is again co-owned with KRMG.

KRMG is credited with the development of Tulsa's River Parks. The station first hosted the "Great Raft Race" in 1973. It was a floating race down the Arkansas River from Sand Springs to Tulsa, attracting large crowds to the river banks. The River Parks Authority was formed in 1974 to develop the area.

In the late 1970s, KRMG moved to a full service adult contemporary format. In the 1980s, as music listening began to shift from AM to FM, KRMG added talk shows at night from NBC Talknet. By the 1990s, the station dropped music altogether and made the transition to the current news/talk format.

Cox Media acquired KRMG and KWEN in 1997. [7] In 2009, a new KRMG-FM was created at 102.3 MHz. That station's Christian contemporary music format was dropped to allow it to simulcast KRMG's talk programming, giving Tulsa radio listeners the choice of hearing KRMG on AM or FM. It also improved KRMG's nighttime coverage in portions of Tulsa.

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Former logo

On July 7, 2014, KRMG-AM-FM changed their slogan to "Tulsa’s 24-hour News, Weather and Traffic, News 102.3 and AM 740 KRMG."

Former hosts

Former KRMG hosts include John Erling, Ann Williams, Dianna Proffitt, Dick Andert, Jerry Vaughn, Watson Jelks, Johnny Martin, Trey Callaway, Rob Hough, and Wes Minter. In the KRMG newsroom, ABC's Bob Brown and CNN's Bob Losure once served as reporters. Frank Powers is now in Jacksonville, Florida. Rand LaVonn was news director in the late 1980s. He is now in Dallas where he volunteered as President of PRSA Dallas in 2013 and President of the Press Club of Dallas from 2000 to 2001. LaVonn was a communications manager for electric and gas utilities in the Dallas region. John Durkee served as news director for 18-years prior to joining the City of Tulsa as Communication Director and then moving on to Tulsa's NPR affiliate KWGS. Union Public Schools Public Relations Director Gretchen Haas was an anchor and reporter. Richard Dowdell was a reporter and anchor for KRMG News for over 30 years.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KRMG". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ KRMG.com/contact-us
  3. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KRMG
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1950 page 246
  5. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1960 page 211
  6. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1970 page B-164
  7. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2000 page D-363
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