KFH (AM)
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| City | Wichita, Kansas |
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| Branding | Sports Radio 1240 & 97.5 KFH |
| Frequency | 1240 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 97.5 K248CY (Wichita) |
| First air date | April 1, 1922 |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 630 watts |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 53598 |
| Callsign meaning | "Kansas' Finest Hotel" (studios were formerly in Carey House Square at Douglas and Emporia, Wichita) |
| Former callsigns | KAKE KAKZ KRZZ KNSS |
| Affiliations |
CBS Sports Radio ESPN Radio |
| Owner |
Entercom Communications (Entercom License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KDGS, KEYN-FM, KFBZ, KNSS, KNSS-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kfhradio.com |
KFH (1240 AM) is a sportsradio station licensed to Wichita, Kansas. The station is owned by Entercom. The station's studios are located at North Woodlawn and East 21st in Northeast Wichita, while the transmitter is located north of downtown.
The station started in March 1922 as WEAH, owned by the Lander Radio Company, and was originally intended to broadcast market reports. It began actual broadcasts on April 1, 1922. On June 23, 1923, the station was sold to the Wichita Board of Trade. During the next period of nearly two years, the Rigby Gray Hotel Company Corporation (operator of the Lassen Hotel) gradually took over the ownership, with the final sale taking place on April 30, 1925. The hotel company chose to change the call letters to KFH, standing for "Kansas' Finest Hotel," and at 9:45am, February 14, 1926, the first radio broadcast under the call letters KFH was made. The Wichita Eagle, a local newspaper, purchased 50% of KFH on October 1, 1929. KFH became a Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) affiliate on October 8, 1929. The Federal Communications Commission authorized an increase in daytime power to 5 KW on May 28, 1935.
Ownership remained under the control of the hotel company until June 5, 1963, when the Federal Communications Commission approved the transfer of the station license to Aeschlayer & Reynolds of Dallas, Texas. The new oner retained the station for less than five and a half years, however, and sold KFH to Phil and Nancy Kassebaum, operating under the corporate name "KFH Radio, Inc." on November 1, 1968.
The ownership remained stable for twenty years, until October 19, 1988, when the station was purchased by Midcontinent Broadcasting Company of Kansas, which held the station until July 1, 1994, and sold it to Pourtales Radio Partnership on that date. Pourtales did not retain ownership very long; the company signed a letter of intent to sell KFH to Triathlon Broadcasting on Friday, March 24, 1995 and completed the sale on June 2, 1995. The station was in turn sold to Entercom on February 23, 2000.
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