KIT (AM)
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| City | Yakima, Washington |
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| Broadcast area | Yakima, Washington |
| Branding | News Talk KIT |
| Frequency | 1280 kHz |
| First air date | 1929 |
| Format | News Talk Information |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 64398 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°34′19″N 120°29′41″W / 46.57194°N 120.49472°W |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio, Westwood One |
| Owner |
Townsquare Media (Townsquare Media Yakima License, LLC) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | newstalkkit.com |
KIT (1280 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format to the Yakima, Washington, United States, area. The station is licensed to GAP Broadcasting Yakima License, LLC and owned by Townsquare Media. The station features programming from ABC Radio, Fox News Radio and Westwood One.
GAP Broadcasting, owned by Skip Weller, purchased the station in early 2008 from Clear Channel Communications. GapWest was folded into Townsquare Media on August 13, 2010.
The transmitter and broadcast tower are located in southern Yakima along West Washington Avenue near the railroad tracks. According to the Antenna Structure Registration database, the self-supporting tower is 63 m (207 ft) tall.
KIT-AM was originally licensed to Portland, Oregon, but the station's original owner, Carl E. Haymond, decided, since Yakima had no radio station, that moving the station there would be more advantageous in regards to serving the community and in generating station operating revenue. KIT began broadcasting on 1310 kHz with 500 watts, but later switched to its present frequency of 1280 kHz so it could increase power.
An early children's program on KIT was "Uncle Jimmy's Clubhouse," hosted by James "Jimmy" Nolan, and the news was edited for many years by Pete Wick. During the 1940s and 1950s, KIT's Chief Engineer was Ben Murphy. During the 1950s, a late night disk jockey host was Joe Young, whose program was appropriately entitled "La Casa Jose'" (The House Of Joe).
In November 1926, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was incorporated. One of the first NBC programs to reach the west coast was the broadcast of the 1927 Rose Bowl Game from Pasadena, California, with announcer, Graham McNamee.
By joining the NBC Radio Network in 1931, KIT had the advantage of associating itself with the network's vast entertainment and news resources.
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