KYAL (AM)

KYAL
City of license	Sapulpa, Oklahoma
Broadcast area	Tulsa, Oklahoma
Branding	The Sports Animal
Frequency	1550 kHz
First air date	1962
Format	Sports
Power	2,500 watts (day) 40 watts (night)
Class	D
Facility ID	35974
Affiliations	Yahoo! Sports Radio
Owner	Michael Perry Stephens
Sister stations	KYAL-FM, KITO-FM, KBIX
Website	sportsanimaltulsa.com

KYAL (1550 AM) is a Sports radio formatted radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and licensed to serve Sapulpa, Oklahoma. The station is owned by Michael Perry Stephens. Its studios are located at the CityPlex Towers in South Tulsa.

History

KYAL's format history includes Urban Contemporary as KXOJ in the 1980s targeting Tulsa, later changing its call letters to KBLK as "Power 1550". It was a simulcast of the Urban format from a cable radio station called "Radiovision" that aired on Tulsa Cable's Wanted Ads channel at the time and also bought time on 1550 to broadcast its station. The 1550 signal did not cover Tulsa very well being that the transmitter was in Sapulpa, Oklahoma and was only 500 watts at the time and was also a daytimer. By the late 80's-early 90's the station upgraded its power to 2,500 watts in the day and 47 watts at night (Still not enough to cover all of Tulsa at night) and giving the station the permission to broadcast 24 hours with its Urban format.

By the early 1990s, the lease was not renewed for Radiovision to broadcast on 1550 and the Urban format was dropped along with Radiovision shutting down its operation. KBLK flipped to a religious radio format and the call letters back to KXOJ, it briefly simulcasted Contemporary Christian with FM sister station KXOJ-FM and later aired a Southern Gospel format. In 2002 Southern Gospel was dropped for a Sports format as "The Sports Animal" simulcasting with WWLS in Oklahoma City. It also simulcasts Sports on its FM sister station KYAL-FM 97.1 in Muskogee.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KYAL

Radio-Locator Information on KYAL

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KYAL

Radio stations in the Tulsa, Oklahoma market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.1 89.5 90.1 90.5 91.3 92.1 92.9 94.1 95.5 96.5 97.1 97.5 98.5 99.5 100.1 100.9 101.5 102.3 103.3 103.7 104.5 105.3 106.1 106.9 107.5

By AM frequency	690 740 970 1050 1120 1170 1270 1300 1340 1380 1430 1530 1550 1570

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.525 162.550

By callsign	KAKC KBEZ KCFO KDIM KETU KFAQ KGGF KGTO KIH27 KHTT KIZS KJMM KJMU KJSR KJZT-LP KMOD-FM KMUS KMYZ-FM KNYD KOSN KRAV-FM KRMG KRMG-FM KRSC-FM KRXO KTBT KTBZ KTGX KTSO KTUZ KVOO-FM KWEN KWGS KWRI KWTU KXBL KXOJ-FM KXTD KYAL KYAL-FM KYFM KYLK WNG632

Nearby radio markets Fayetteville Ft. Smith Joplin Oklahoma City Pittsburg Wichita See also List of radio stations in Oklahoma

Sports Radio Stations in the state of Oklahoma

Stations:	KADA - Ada KADS - Elk City KAKC - Tulsa KBIX - Muskogee KCRC - Enid KGHM - Midwest City KGND - Vinita KINB - Kingfisher KITO-FM - Vinita KJCM - Snyder KOKB - Blackwell KOKP - Perry KREF - Norman KRXO - Tulsa KRXO-FM - Oklahoma City KSIW - Woodward KSPI - Stillwater KTBZ - Tulsa KVSO - Ardmore KWPN - Moore KYAL - Sapulpa KYAL-FM - Muskogee WWLS-FM - The Village

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Oklahoma See also ESPN Radio ESPN Deportes Radio Fox Sports Radio CBS Sports Radio NBC Sports Radio Yahoo! Sports Radio Sports Byline USA

Coordinates: 36°01′08″N 96°05′55″W / 36.01889°N 96.09861°W / 36.01889; -96.09861

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