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KWKY dominated the country market for the next ten years, as the only full time AM country station in Des Moines. The decline of KWKY started in 1972 when KSO switched from Top 40 to country music. With KSO's higher power and better coverage area, KWKY's complicated directional antenna pattern hurt it in the ratings.
The Live Music Archive (LMA), part of the Internet Archive, is an ad-free collection of over 250,000 concert recordings [1] in lossless audio formats. [2] The songs are also downloadable or playable in lossy formats such as Ogg Vorbis or MP3 .
KBGG originated as the expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with KKSO in Des Moines, a station that dated to 1947, authorized to move from 1390 kHz ...
The festival is nearly 100% volunteer run and is organized by the Greater Des Moines Music Coalition, a 501(c)(3) non-profit committed to building a stronger and more diverse live music economy in greater Des Moines. On July 7, 2023, it was announced that the festival will move to nearby Water Works Park in 2024. As stated on the 80/35 Facebook ...
Iowa Public Radio is a public radio network in the U.S. state of Iowa that combines the operations of most National Public Radio member stations in the state. Its three program streams air programming from NPR, Public Radio Exchange and American Public Media, along with local content (notably music) on weekends and evenings.
The revision of music in the liturgy took place in March 1967, with the passage of Musicam Sacram ("Instruction on music in the liturgy"). In paragraph 46 of this document, it states that music could be played during the sacred liturgy on "instruments characteristic of a particular people." Previously the pipe organ was used for accompaniment.
Leach runs a Des Moines, Iowa music store, the Family Music Center. [3] Leach and his wife Dorothy have music degrees and have taught since 1974 on several instruments. [4] He has run for the Iowa General Assembly six times and lost, in his first attempt (1986) as a Democrat and in the rest (1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, 2010) as a Republican.
The pope in 1912 appointed Reverend Austin Dowling of the Diocese of Providence as the first bishop of Des Moines. In 1918, Dowling founded Des Moines Catholic College. [6] A year later, Pope Benedict XV named Dowling as archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul. To replace Dowling in Des Moines, Benedict XV named Reverend Thomas Drumm in 1919 ...