City | Mission, Kansas |
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Broadcast area | Kansas City Metropolitan Area, and parts of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska |
Branding | 710 KCMO |
Slogan | KCMO Talk Radio |
Frequency | 710 kHz AM |
Translator(s) | 103.7 MHz FM |
First air date | 1925 (as KWKC at 1370) |
Format | Talk |
Power | 10,000 watts (day) 5,000 watts (night) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 33391 |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°19′08″N 94°29′48″W / 39.31889°N 94.49667°W |
Callsign meaning | Kansas City, Missouri |
Former callsigns | KWKC (1925-1936) |
Former frequencies | 1370 kHz (1925-1939) 1450 kHz (1939-?) 1480 (?-1947) 810 kHz (1947-1998) |
Affiliations | Westwood One News |
Owner |
Cumulus Media (CMP Houston-KC, LLC) |
Sister stations | KCHZ, KCFX, K279BI, KCJK, KCMO-FM, KMJK |
Webcast |
Listen Live or Listen Live iHeart |
Website | 710kcmo.com |
KCMO (710 kHz) is a AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri. Owned by Cumulus Media, the station's studios are located in Mission, Kansas, and the transmitter is in the Kansas City's Northeast side. The station airs a Conservative Talk format. The station broadcasts at 10,000 watts by day and 5000 watts at night, covering the Kansas City metropolitan area. With a good radio, the station can be heard not just in sections of Missouri and Kansas but also parts of Iowa and Nebraska.
On April 30, 2012 KCMO-AM began simulcasting on FM translator 103.7 K279BI via KCFX-HD2.
KCMO airs both local and nationally syndicated talk shows, most of which come from the Westwood One Network, a subsidiary of parent company Cumulus Media. Mornings are hosted by radio veteran Rob Carson (6 to 10 a.m.), with hosts Steve Sutton doing late mornings (10 a.m. to Noon) and Greg Knapp doing late afternoons (4 to 6 p.m.). The rest of the weekday schedule comes from syndicated shows: Dave Ramsey, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, John Batchelor, Red Eye Radio and America in The Morning. Weekends feature shows on money, health, religion, gardening and horses, some of which are Brokered programming. Syndicated shows heard on weekends include Larry Kudlow and Bob Brinker.