KMKY (AM)

KMKY

City of license	Oakland, California
Broadcast area	San Francisco Bay Area
Slogan	Radio Disney AM 1310
Frequency	1310 kHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1921
Format	Children's Radio
Power	5,000 Watts unlimited
Class	B
Facility ID	96
Transmitter coordinates	37°49′27″N 122°19′10″W
Callsign meaning	K MicKeY Mouse
Former callsigns	KDIA, KFYI, KDIA
Affiliations	Radio Disney
Owner	Disney/ABC Radio (RD San Francisco Assets, LLC)
Sister stations	KGO-TV
Website	radiodisney.com

KMKY is a radio station in Oakland, California that broadcasts on 1310 AM. It has children's variety programming and is part of the Radio Disney network. KMKY was once longtime home of Urban AC KDIA.

KDIA history

The 1310 AM frequency began as KLS in 1921. In 1945, it changed its call letters to KWBR and changed its format to focus on an African-American audience. In 1959, it was bought by the owners of Memphis radio station WDIA, and the call letters were changed to KDIA. During the 1960s through the 1980s, the station was the premier soul and funk station in the San Francisco Bay Area. The station helped launch the careers of such musicians as Sly and the Family Stone.^{[citation needed]}

In the early 1990s KDIA was co-owned by then mayor of Oakland, California, Elihu Harris with then California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. In 1992, the late Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey returned to the Bay Area to work as public affairs director and newscaster on KDIA. Bailey later became the editor of the Oakland Post who was murdered on the streets of downtown Oakland.

External links

• KMKY official website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KMKY
• Radio-Locator Information on KMKY
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KMKY