KUDL (AM)

KUDL

City of license	Kansas City, Kansas
Broadcast area	Kansas City, Missouri
Frequency	1660 kHz
Repeaters	KRBZ 96.5-HD2
First air date	1998
Format	Classical music
Power	10,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night)
Class	B
Facility ID	87143
Transmitter coordinates	39°02′17″N 94°36′57″W
Former callsigns	KBJC (1998-2000) KWSJ (2000-2001) KXTR (2001-2007) WDAF (2007) KXTR (2007-2011)
Owner	Entercom
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	radiobach.com

KUDL is a classical music station that broadcasts at 1660 kHz in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. KUDL, owned by Entercom, relies mostly on satellite programming, but does feature local personalities, such as morning show host Patrick Neas.

The format started in 1953 as KXTR on the FM dial, at 96.5 MHz. As FM became the preferred band for popular music, revenue declined. In 2000, Entercom moved KXTR to 1250 kHz in the AM band in order to establish a new pop station, KRBZ, which has since shifted to an alternative rock format. On June 1, 2001, KXTR moved to the new 1660 AM frequency.

For a brief period in 2007, the station used the calls WDAF, which formerly belonged to AM sister KCSP.

During the 2009 and 2010 summer months, KXTR played Motor Racing Network coverage of NASCAR Sprint cup night events, which may have been a simulcast from sister station KCSP, which already carried both Motor Racing Network and the Performance Racing Network. (Rival WHB has announced it will MRN races in 2011.) KXTR is also the home of Kansas City T-Bones baseball, an independent minor league baseball team in Kansas City, KS.

The call letters were changed to KUDL on March 31, 2011; the call letters were transferred from what is now KMBZ-FM. KRBZ's HD2 channel offers a simulcast of KUDL's programming; as KXTR, this was offered on (the previous) KUDL.

External links

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