KRNT
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| City of license |
Des Moines, Iowa |
| Broadcast area |
Des Moines area |
| Slogan |
Where The Legends Live!"; "America's Best Music" |
| Frequency |
1350 kHz |
| Format |
Adult Standards/MOR |
| Audience share |
2.5, #14 (Fa'07, R&R[1]) |
| Power |
5,000 watts |
| Class |
B |
| Facility ID |
58534 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
41°33′31.00″N 93°34′45.00″W / 41.5586111°N 93.5791667°W / 41.5586111; -93.5791667 |
| Callsign meaning |
Des Moines Register aNd Tribune (founding owners) |
| Affiliations |
CBS Radio, CNN Radio, America's Best Music |
| Owner |
Saga Communications of Iowa, LLC |
| Sister stations |
KAZR, KPSZ, KIOA, KLTI, KSTZ |
| Website |
1350krnt.com |
KRNT (1350 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Standards/MOR format. Serving the Des Moines, Iowa, USA area, the station is licensed to Saga Communications of Iowa, LLC and features programing from CBS Radio, CNN Radio and Dial Global's America's Best Music syndicated format.[2] It features music from the 1950s through the 1980s, along with Chicago Cubs baseball broadcasts and Drake University sports programming. The night schedule includes a talk show from Jim Bohannon. The station won a Peabody Award in 1945 for outstanding reporting of news.[citation needed]
History [edit]
KSO, located at 1370 AM, moved from Clarinda, Iowa into Des Moines in 1932. In 1934, the station adopted the KRNT call sign and moved to 1320 AM (KWCR moved from Cedar Rapids, Iowa that same year and adopted the KSO call sign). KRNT moved to the current 1350 AM frequency in 1941.
Then-owners Cowles Media started up a sister station, KRNT-FM (104.5) in 1948, but took it off the air and returned the license in 1955, the same year they started up KRNT-TV (Ch. 8). In 1970, they signed on another KRNT-FM (102.5 FM).[3]
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