KSRR

KSRR

City	Provo, Utah
Broadcast area	Orem, Utah
Frequency	1400 kHz
Branding	1400 K-Star
Programming
Format	Adult contemporary
Ownership
Owner	Lucky Dog Broadcasting (Franklyn H. Mueller)
Sister stations	KQMB
History
First air date	November 23, 1947; 73 years ago (November 23, 1947) (as KCSU)
Former call signs	KCSU (1947-late 1950s) KIXX (late 1950s-1976) KFTN (1976-1985) KXYC (1985-1987)
Call sign meaning	K Star Radio
Technical information
Facility ID	53103
Class	C
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates	40°15′29″N 111°42′24″W / 40.25806°N 111.70667°W / 40.25806; -111.70667
Links
Website	KSRR Online

Prior to collapse, KSRR's radio tower was located near Interstate 15 in Orem, Utah

KSRR (1400 K-Star AM) is a radio station licensed to Provo, Utah. The station originates from a studio located in Orem, Utah. The station carries a soft adult contemporary format. KSRR also has a sister station, 96.7 KQMB. The station is owned by Lucky Dog Broadcasting.

History[]

This station originally signed on as KCSU on November 23, 1947 and was owned and operated by Frank and Harold VanWagenen. The callsign changed to KIXX in the late 1950s. The VanWagenens operated the station with studios and transmitter at the edge of a golf course south of Provo until 1972 when it was sold to Mesa Broadcasting Corp., with headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado. Former KOIL air personality Larry Cobb, was CEO of the 3-station chain, with sister stations in Grand Junction and Cheyenne, Wyoming. In early 1973 it became a country music station. The original country Program Director was Les Bagley, who later went on to WPOC in Baltimore, Maryland.

In 1976, the station was sold again, this time to country music singer and songwriter Whispering Bill Anderson of Nashville, Tennessee. The call letters were changed to KFTN, which emphasized the dial position of 1400 ("FTN" was fourteen, abbreviated). While the station was owned by Bill Anderson, the official title of ownership was "Whisper Communications of Nashville, a division of Stallion Music." Stallion Music was Bill Anderson's music publishing company.^{[citation needed]}

The station again sold in 1981, still playing country, and changed its calls to KXYC on March 1, 1985.^[1] From May 1, 1985, to January 1, 1995, the station played nonstop LDS music. After January 1995, the station played show tunes, and then settled on adult contemporary music.^[2]

The station changed ownership in 1986, while the station was still known as KXYC. Unfortunately, many listeners heard the call letters as KXYZ, so in 1987, the calls became the current KSRR. This last change took effect on October 1, 1987.^[1][3]

The call sign KSRR was previously used by an FM rock music station operating at 96.5 MHz in Houston, Texas, up until October 15, 1986. That station is currently known as KHMX.

In 2017, the station went silent after the original tower near I-15 collapsed, while owned by Zeta Holdings, LLC. The station was then sold to a Utah County-based company Lucky Dog Broadcasting on December 20, 2018. The sale was consumated on May 21, 2019.^[4] On January 29, 2021, the station returned to air while a new tower was being built by the current owners. The previous tower collapse brought about several STAs with the FCC while the station worked to replace it.

Signal[]

The station's signal reaches throughout Utah County and into southern Salt Lake County. It broadcasts 1,000 watts in a non-directional pattern from a tower located in Provo, Utah.

References[]

External links[]

• KSRR in the FCC AM station database
• KSRR on Radio-Locator
• KSRR in Nielsen Audio's AM station database