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Coordinates: 36°15′57″N 95°58′16″W / 36.26583°N 95.97111°W / 36.26583; -95.97111
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KMUS
Broadcast areaTulsa, Oklahoma
Frequency1380 kHz (HD Radio)
Branding1380 AM Radio Las Américas
Programming
FormatSpanish popular music, news
Ownership
Owner
  • Grupo Teletul
  • (Radio Las Américas LLC)
History
First air date
1948
Former call signs
KLUE (1987-1990)
Call sign meaning
MUSkogee (former city of license)
Disney Character MicKey MoUSe (Radio Disney era)
Technical information
Power7,000 watts daytime,
250 watts nighttime
Translator(s)K274CX (102.7 FM) Tulsa
Links
Webcasthttp://lasamericas1380am.com/en-vivo/
Websitewww.lasamericas1380am.com

KMUS is a Spanish-language radio station which serves the Tulsa, Oklahoma market. KMUS broadcasts on 1380 kHz under ownership of Radio Las Américas LLC. Although the station can heard through much of the Tulsa area during the daytime hours, its nighttime signal is limited to just 250 watts, offering much weaker reception.

History

KMUS began broadcasting in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1948.[1] 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 before 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 company's Radio Disney offering. Sometime in the 1990s, the station began airing programming from the Children's Satellite Network, which was later dropped in March 1998.[2]

Disney took KMUS, and five other stations slated to be sold, off the air on January 22, 2010.[3][4] 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.[5] 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).[6][7][8]

Translator

Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class FCC info
K274CX 102.7 MHz FM Tulsa, Oklahoma 140408 99 54 m (177 ft) D LMS

References

  1. ^ "KMUS in Muskogee Underway with 1 KW" (PDF). Broadcasting. July 19, 1949. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
  2. ^ https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-M-Street/M-Street-Journal/M-Street-1998-03.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "Radio Disney Takes Six Stations Silent". All Access. January 28, 2010. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ Arnold, Kyle (April 26, 2011). "Tulsa to get fourth Spanish-language radio station". Tulsa World. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  7. ^ Arnold, Kyle (April 30, 2011). "Radio Las Americas latest Spanish-language station". Tulsa World. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
  8. ^ Grinter, Jeff (April 29, 2011). "New Hispanic Radio Station On The Air". KTUL.com. Retrieved May 1, 2011.

36°15′57″N 95°58′16″W / 36.26583°N 95.97111°W / 36.26583; -95.97111