KDYL (AM)

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KDYL
City of license	South Salt Lake, Utah
Broadcast area	Salt Lake City
Slogan	Real Oldies
Frequency	1060 kHz
First air date	1922
Format	Oldies
Power	10,000 watts day 149 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	27458
Transmitter Coordinates	40°32′8.00″N 112°4′38.00″W / 40.5355556, -112.0772222
Owner	Holiday Broadcasting Company
Sister stations	KCYN, KTSN, KRJC
Website	kdylam.com

KDYL (1060 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Oldies format. Licensed to South Salt Lake, Utah, USA, it serves the Salt Lake City area. The station is currently owned by Holiday Broadcasting Company. KDYL also broadcasts its signal using CAM-D, a digital transmission method developed by broadcast engineer Leonard R. Kahn.

[edit] History

KDYL first went on the air in 1922, its license being granted on May 8, 1922^[1]. KDYL was a luck-of-the–draw government assigned call. Later, KDYL had sister TV and FM stations too. The complete company was sold in about 1953 with the television call changing to KTVT, KCPX, and KTVX TV. The AM/FM was divested along the way.

When it went on the air in 1922, it shared a wavelength with two other commercial stations in Salt Lake City. At that time, the FCC had not been formed and several stations shared a “wavelength” by going on and off at pre-arranged times. Unlike today, radio receivers in 1922 were wavelength not frequency orientated.

The long-time owner of KDYL was a man by the name of Sidney S. Fox. He was a gambler^{[citation needed]} and promoter and KDYL AM radio and television was one of his tools. Sid obtained the AM radio license in 1926 [1] from a newspaper that couldn’t figure out what to do with it.^{[citation needed]}

By the late 1930’s KDYL had become an NBC Radio affiliate. The KDYL calls were later licensed to Tooele, Utah for a few years before moving to 1280 AM in the 1990s and licensed to Salt Lake City, owned by Simmons Media Group.

[edit] 1060 changes calls and formats

In 2004, Holiday Broadcasting Co filed for the KDYL calls after Simmons Media dropped the Adult Standard format and the KDYL calls, changing to KZNS, a sports station. 1060 AM had been an oldies station previously in the 1980s, then known as KRSP. On September 24, 1990, the frequency changed its call sign to KKDS and began airing a children's format known as Radio Disney. KDYL, the station's current call sign, returned to air on February 2, 2004.^[2]

[edit] KDYL switches formats

KDYL, at its return to air in 2004, was an Adult Standards radio station broadcasting Jones Radio Networks' Music of Your Life format. On January 1, 2008, the station switched to a "Real Oldies" format with live and local personalities, spotlighting hits from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. The change put the station in competition with another local oldies radio station KKAT, which airs Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel, although for now, unlike the True Oldies Channel, KDYL's playlist includes no post-1970 music.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KDYL
• Radio Locator Information on KDYL
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KDYL
• Radio's KDYL returns to its oldies music roots, The Deseret Morning News, 01-11-2008