KMUS

KMUS (1380 AM) is a Spanish-language radio station licensed to Sperry, Oklahoma, and serving the Tulsa metropolitan area. It is owned by Radio Las Américas, LLC. KMUS airs a mix of Spanish language hits and talk shows, some of which are paid brokered programming.

KMUS
Broadcast areaTulsa metropolitan area
Frequency1380 kHz (HD Radio)
Branding1380 AM Radio Las Américas
Programming
FormatSpanish popular music, news
Brokered programming
Ownership
Owner
  • Grupo Teletul
  • (Radio Las Américas, LLC)
History
First air date
July 3, 1948 (1948-07-03)
Former call signs
KLUE (1987-1990)
Call sign meaning
MUSkogee (former city of license)
Disney Character MicKey MoUSe (Radio Disney era)
Technical information
Facility ID25129
ClassB
Power7,000 watts day
250 watts night
Translator(s)102.7 K274CX (Tulsa)
Repeater(s)1490 KBIX (Muskogee)
Links
WebcastListen live
Websitewww.lasamericas1380am.com

By day, KMUS is powered at 7,000 watts. To protect other stations on 1380 AM from interference, it uses a directional antenna with a six-tower array.[1] At night, it reduces power to only 250 watts. Programming is heard around the clock on low-power FM translator K274CX at 102.7 MHz in Tulsa.[2]

History

KMUS began broadcasting in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in July 3, 1948 (1948-07-03).[3] It changed to KLUE on July 25, 1987, with a format of crossover country. Three years later, the call sign reverted to KMUS and the station aired an adult standards format.

Reunion Broadcasting, LLC sold it to The Walt Disney Company in 2004. Its transmitter site and city of license was relocated to Sperry, Oklahoma, and the format changed to the Radio Disney children's radio network. Sometime in the 1990s, the station began airing programming from the "Children's Satellite Network," which was later dropped in March 1998.[4]

Disney took KMUS, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22, 2010.[5][6] After the first attempt to sell the station fell through, a deal to sell KMUS to Radio Las Americas LLC was announced in February 2011.[7] Radio Las Américas returned the station to the air on April 29 with a Spanish-language popular music format, along with two newscasts a day (which are audio-only versions of the newscasts on sister television station KXAP-LD).[8][9][10]

Translator
Call signFrequencyCity of licenseFIDERP (W)HAATClassFCC info
K274CX 102.7 MHz FMTulsa, Oklahoma1404089954 m (177 ft)DLMS

References
  1. Radio-Locator.com/KMUS
  2. Radio-Locator.com/W274CX
  3. "KMUS in Muskogee Underway with 1 KW" (PDF). Broadcasting. July 19, 1949. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  4. (PDF) https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-M-Street/M-Street-Journal/M-Street-1998-03.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Radio Disney Takes Six Stations Silent". All Access. January 28, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
  6. Zucker, John W (January 26, 2010). "Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
  7. "Radio Disney continues its selloff of medium-market stations: Tulsa's KMUS/1380". Radio-Info.com. February 18, 2011. Archived from the original on February 23, 2011. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
  8. Arnold, Kyle (April 26, 2011). "Tulsa to get fourth Spanish-language radio station". Tulsa World. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  9. Arnold, Kyle (April 30, 2011). "Radio Las Americas latest Spanish-language station". Tulsa World. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  10. Grinter, Jeff (April 29, 2011). "New Hispanic Radio Station On The Air". KTUL.com. Retrieved May 1, 2011.

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