KMNY
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| KMNY | |
| City of license | Hurst, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex |
| Branding | Retro Radio 1360 (Daytime) Rational Radio 1360 (Nighttime) |
| Frequency | 1360 kHz |
| First air date | 1947 as KXOL |
| Format | Classic Hits of the 1980s/Classic Rock (Daytime) Progressive Talk (Nighttime) |
| Power | 50,000 watts (Daytime) 890 watts (Nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | MoNeY (from the former Biz Radio Network affiliation) |
| Former callsigns | KXOL (1947-1985), KWJS (1985-1988), KNRB (1988-1993), KAHZ (1993-2005) |
| Affiliations | Nova M Radio |
| Owner | Multicultural Broadcasting (MRB Licensee, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KDFT |
| Webcast | Rational Radio 1360 Live Feed |
| Website | myspace.com/retroradio1360 rationalradio.org |
KMNY is an AM radio station in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, which broadcasts on 1360 kHz and is under ownership of Multicultural Broadcasting.
KMNY is transitioning to a Progressive Talk programming format courtesy of their new affiliation Nova M Radio. Currently KMNY broadcasts progressive talk from 7 PM until midnight; on July 1 the station will begin broadcasting progressive talk all day. Until that day, Mike Shannon will be leasing most of the daily radio schedules to air 1980s Pop music and classic rock known as "Retro Radio 1360".
At night KMNY's signal is significantly weaker. Nighttime reception can be problematic outside the immediate Dallas-Fort Worth area due to more powerful stations broadcasting on identical or nearby frequencies from elsewhere in the U.S. and Mexico.
[edit] History
KMNY was established in 1947 as KXOL and featured a variety of entertainment programs and country music during its early years. From 1956 to 1976, KXOL played Top 40 music, competing with 1270 KFJZ. With the rise of FM radio and a decrease in ratings and revenue after the combination of Dallas and Fort Worth into one radio market, KXOL switched back to country music in 1976.
KXOL continued as a country station until it was sold in 1985 and became KWJS, featuring Christian oriented programming. KWJS became KNRB in 1988, featuring country and then religious formats, and then became KAHZ in 1993, airing children's programming from the Radio AAHS network. After Radio AAHS went under, KAHZ switched to Catholic religious programming in 1998 and later to Spanish-language talk programming. The KMNY calls were established in March 2005, and the business talk format the following month as KMNY Biz Radio 1360. Nighttime slots were filled with brokered programming in Spanish, Chinese and other languages, or automated Adult Standards music during non-sponsored times.
In 2006, KMNY aired "The Hi-Fi Club," a live, weekly oldies/talk show that resurrected its name from KXOL's "Coca Cola Hi-Fi Club" (1959-62; originally hosted by comedian George Carlin.) Hosts Mike Shannon, John Lewis Puff, Chad Hoker and Ray Whitworth covered local radio history, regularly breaking an unwritten rule by discussing competing area stations by name. Offbeat and candid in nature, it also featured live and recorded interviews with historical local radio notables such as Norman Alden, Bob Schieffer, Bud Buschardt, George Gimarc, Russ Bloxom and Bob Allen. The show returned to the KMNY airwaves at the end of 2007.
In November, 2006, "The Hi-Fi Club" presented the radio special, "As it Happened: The Lost JFK Assassination Tapes of KXOL-1360" over KMNY. This was a two-hour compilation of audio recordings from KXOL, mostly in the post-assassination hours and continuing into the early morning of 11/23/1963. The recordings were edited from reels provided by KXOL newsman Russ Bloxom, who was on duty at the station's newsdesk when President John F. Kennedy was killed, and had never been replayed. "The Hi-Fi Club" reunited the recordings with their original frequency, and Russ Bloxom provided a new five-minute interview as part of the presentation.
In January of 2007, the station aired a "Sports Talk Show" titled "Sports Kings".
In January 2008, the station began airing progressive talk programming sponsored by Rational Radio (via Nova M Radio) from 7PM-midnight, featuring Mike Malloy.
The BizRadio Network left KMNY for KJSA 1110AM on May 23, 2008. Testing of the new 1110 frequency's signal began in April, 2008. (In 2007, KJSA received a construction permit to move from their 62-year home at 1120, to 1110AM--with a considerable power increase to 20,000 watts.)
Rational Radio group has announced they will lease the entire 24 hour-a-day KMNY schedule from MRBI beginning July 1, 2008.[1] The new schedule will feature Jones Radio's Stephanie Miller, Air America's Thom Hartmann, and Nova M's Randi Rhodes in addition to Mike Malloy.
[edit] External links
- Retro Radio 1360 at MySpace
- Rational Radio 1360 - Official Website
- John Lewis Puff's Tribute to KXOL
- Mike Shannon's Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and TV History
- "The Hi-Fi Club" (2006)
- DFW Radio Archives
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KMNY
- Radio Locator Information on KMNY
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for KMNY
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