WKSN

WKSN
City of license	Jamestown, New York
Broadcast area	Jamestown and Vicinity
Branding	Kissin' Oldies 1340
Frequency	1340 kHz
First air date	1948
Format	Oldies
Power	260 watts (day) 520 watts (night)
Class	C
Facility ID	65592
Callsign meaning	KiSsiN' (branding)
Former callsigns	WJOC (1948-1960s) WXYJ (1960s)
Affiliations	The True Oldies Channel (ABC Radio)
Owner	Media One Group (Media One Group, LLC)
Sister stations	WJTN, WWSE, WHUG, WQFX-FM
Website	wksn.com

WKSN (1340 AM, "Kissin' Oldies 1340") is a radio station based in Jamestown, New York. The oldies outlet is owned by Media One Group and operates at 1340 kHz.

WKSN, formerly WJTN's rival, signed on in 1948 as WJOC. It used the call sign WXYJ in the 1960s. For most of its early history, WKSN played a Top 40 format A television sister station, WNYP (channel 26), signed on in 1966, when both stations were owned by Bud Paxson; channel 26 shut down after three years and its license is now being used by a religious station. During the 1990s and early 2000s, WKSN (Kissin' Oldies) was an oldies outlet carrying a local morning show and a midday show by Paul Hoefler (now performing commercial jingles in the area), as well the satellite Good Time Oldies from Jones Radio Networks until the station was bought out by Media One Group, LLC in 2003.

Soon after Media One's purchase, WKSN became a primarily syndicated talk radio operation until the summer of 2008, with shows such as Rush Limbaugh (counterprogrammed to a liberal program known as The Hall Closet on WJTN), Imus in the Morning, Bill Bennett, Dr. Dean Edell and Glenn Beck, as well as affiliations with Talk Radio Network and FOX Sports Radio. On July 4, 2008, WKSN switched back to the oldies format. With the change to oldies (and The Hall Closet's discontinuation), Edell, Beck and Ed Schultz were moved to sister station WJTN (Schultz actually began airing on WJTN on June 23, 2008 in Ray Hall's time slot, so both WJTN and WKSN were airing Schultz from June 23 to July 3, 2008), while Rush Limbaugh was, for a time, dropped from the market altogether.

Much of WKSN's former talk lineup, including Bill Bennett, Glenn Beck, and Limbaugh, can now be heard in Jamestown on WLKW-FM (95.3).

WKSN was an affiliate of Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel until that station ceased terrestrial distribution in June 2014.^[1] WKSN was an affiliate of NFL on Westwood One then moved to sister station WJTN; for many years, it was the radio home of the Jamestown Jammers (Jammers broadcasts were dropped from WKSN several years before the team left Jamestown).

References

↑ "Radio Stations". Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel. Archived from the original on July 28, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2008.

External links

WKSN official website

Query the FCC's AM station database for WKSN

Radio-Locator Information on WKSN

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WKSN

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NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425 162.525 162.550

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Coordinates: 42°06′17″N 79°15′27″W / 42.10472°N 79.25750°W / 42.10472; -79.25750

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