City | Cape Girardeau, Missouri |
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Branding | News Radio 960 |
Slogan | "Your Regional News Authority" |
Frequency | 960 kHz |
First air date | August 31, 1985 |
Format | News/Talk |
Power | 5,000 watts (day) 500 watts (night) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 74582 |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°18′59″N 89°29′06″W / 37.31639°N 89.48500°W |
Callsign meaning | ZIMmer (former owners) |
Former callsigns | KGIR |
Owner | Max Media (MRR License LLC) |
Sister stations | KCGQ-FM, KEZS-FM, KGIR, KGKS |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | http://www.960kzim.com/ |
KZIM (960 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by Max Media and licensed to MRR License LLC. It airs a news and talk format.
The station was assigned the KZIM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on August 31, 1985.
In December 2003, Mississippi River Radio, acting as Max Media LLC (John Trinder, president/COO), reached an agreement to purchase WCIL, WCIL-FM, WUEZ, WXLT, WOOZ-FM, WJPF, KGIR, KZIM, KEZS-FM, KCGQ-FM, KMAL, KLSC, KWOC, KJEZ, KKLR-FM, KGKS, and KSIM from the Zimmer Radio Group (James L. Zimmer, owner). The reported value of this 17 station transaction was $43 million.