KSTP-AM
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| Radio station | |
| Program type | Sports radio |
| reception | analog , terrestrial & web radio |
| Reception area | Minnesota , USA |
| Start of transmission | 1928 |
| Broadcaster | Hubbard Broadcasting |
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KSTP ("1500 ESPN Twin Cities") is a sports radio station based in St. Paul , Minnesota. It is the Hubbard Broadcasting's Clear Channel flagship station . In addition, the transmitter is the only affiliate broadcast from is ESPN Radio for the metropolitan Minneapolis-St. Paul . The local partner station is KSTP-FM .
history
KSTP went on air in 1928 as a union of two stations in the Twin Cities. WAMD (“Where All Minneapolis Dances”) and KFOY started broadcasting a few years earlier. Initially, Stanley E. Hubbard's WAMD went on air on February 13, 1925 with live music from the local ballroom .
Some sources say that WAMD was the first fully ad-supported radio station in the world. KFOY started operations in St. Paul in 1924.
In 1933 the Federal Radio Commission approved an increase in output to 25 kW for KSTP. As early as the late 1930s, the station was experimenting with frequency-modeled broadcasts. KSTP started a test station with the callsign W9XUP in 1938 on 29.95 MHz. These broadcasting facilities, known as "Ultra Shortwave Station", regularly broadcast KSTP's programs until at least 1944. It is not known how many receivers with FM demodulators were available in the shortwave range at that time.
Broadcasting stations
It is broadcast on medium wave 1500 k Hz by means of two radio stations alternating day and night in Maplewood .
- Transmitter during the day: 45 ° 1 ′ 32.1 ″ N , 93 ° 2 ′ 40.3 ″ W
- Transmitter at night: 45 ° 1 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 93 ° 3 ′ 7.6 ″ W
In parallel, the sister station WFED from Washington, DC operates - also from a 50 k W transmitter on the same frequency.
- Sister station: 39 ° 2 ′ 30.3 ″ N , 77 ° 2 ′ 46.5 ″ W.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ americanradiohistorie.com. Retrieved November 30, 2016
- ^ AM Station Classes, and Clear, Regional, and Local Channels . In: Federal Communications Commission . December 11, 2015 ( fcc.gov [accessed November 29, 2016]).
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