KKMO

KKMO

City of license	Tacoma, Washington
Broadcast area	Seattle metropolitan area
Branding	El Rey
Frequency	1360 (kHz)
First air date	1922
Format	Regional Mexican
Power	5,000 watts (unlimited)
Class	B
Facility ID	33301
Former callsigns	KMO (1922–1983) KAMT (1983–1987) KZTS (1997–1998)^[1] KKMO (1987-1997, 1998-Present)
Owner	Sea Mar Community Health Centers, LLC
Sister stations	KGNW, KKOL, KLFE, KNTS
Website	radiosol1360.com

KKMO (1360 AM) is a commercial radio station located in Tacoma, Washington.

Programming

KKMO airs a Regional Mexican music format branded as "El Rey". Notable on-air personalities include nationally syndicated host Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo on mornings and local hosts the rest of the broadcast day. The station is the flagship Spanish broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners.

History

This station prevented KMOX in St. Louis, Missouri, from taking a "preferred" callsign. This station used the KMO callsign from 1922 to 1983. The KMO calls would sometimes create confusion between KMO & Seattle's ABC affiliate KOMO in areas along the Sea-Tac strip, the Green River valley & the area around Olympia, Washington.

On May 25, 1932, the Federal Communications Commission authorized KMO to go from limited-time to full-time operation along with changes in frequency and power. The station had been on 860 kHz with 500 W power. It changed to 1330 kHz with 250 W power.^[2]

The station was assigned the KKMO call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on July 20, 1998. The station had the KKMO calls previously from 1987-1997.^[1]

On April 30, 2008, Salem Communications announced that it had reached an agreement to sell KKMO to Tron Do-run Intelli LLC for $3,690,000.^[3] The deal was approved by the FCC on June 25, 2008,^[4] but in November 2008 Salem announced that the sale had been cancelled.^[5]

In November 2008, the station dropped its "Radio Sol" branding in favor of "El Rey".^[5]

References

1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
↑ "KMO Gets Full Time" (PDF). Broadcasting. April 1, 1932. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
↑ "Salem deals away Tacoma-Seattle Regional Mexican KKMO (1360) for $3,690,000". Radio-Info.com. April 30, 2008.
↑ "Application Search Details (BAL-20080428ACM)". FCC Media Bureau. 2008-06-25.
1 2 Virgin, Bill (November 5, 2008). "On Radio on Radio: KKOL-AM shifts to business news; Owner sees a market for new format". Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

External links

El Rey

Query the FCC's AM station database for KKMO

Radio-Locator Information on KKMO

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KKMO

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Coordinates: 47°18′19″N 122°26′33″W / 47.30528°N 122.44250°W / 47.30528; -122.44250

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