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Friesen was named the International Bluegrass Music Association's very first Bluegrass Broadcaster of the Year in 1990. He also produced the IBMA awards show from 1990 to 2000. The stations were purchased by Journal Broadcast Group in 1999. Prior to that, they were owned by Great Empire Broadcasting, headquartered in Wichita.
KICT-FM, their sister radio stations in the Wichita area and 2 TV stations were not included in the merge; in September, Journal filed to transfer these stations to Journal/Scripps Divestiture Trust (with Kiel Media Group as trustee). [6] [7] Scripps exited radio in 2018; the Wichita stations went to SummitMedia in a four-market, $47 million ...
KFDI became the flagship station of Great Empire Broadcasting Inc. [31] KFDI, airing country-western music, was the dominant radio station in the Wichita metro-area market, until the rise of rock'n'roll eroded its market share. By 1976, KFDI was being edged out by Wichita rock stations KLEO-AM and (to a lesser extent) KEYN-FM in the under-35 ...
Journal Media Group (formerly Journal Communications) was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based newspaper publishing company. The company's roots were first established in 1882 as the owner of its namesake, the Milwaukee Journal, and expanded into broadcasting with the establishment of WTMJ radio and WTMJ-TV, and the acquisition of other television and radio stations.
The combined firm retained their broadcast properties and spun off their print assets as Journal Media Group. [16] KYQQ, their sister radio stations in the Wichita area and 2 TV stations were not included in the merge; in September, Journal filed to transfer these stations to Journal/Scripps Divestiture Trust (with Kiel Media Group as trustee).
After being purchased by Journal Broadcast Group in December 1999 and focused its audience to Wichita (as well as moving studios there), on January 15, 2000, they flipped to an adult contemporary format as "Mix 92.3" and would later evolve to adult top 40. [6] [7] [4] The station would change its call sign to KMXW on October 27, 2000. [8]
The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1955, as KARD-TV. The station, owned by the Wichita Television Corporation [3] was the fourth television station to sign on in the Wichita–Hutchinson market, after KAKE (channel 10)—which signed on in October 1954, KEDD (channel 16)—which signed on in August 1953, and KTVH (channel 12, now KWCH-DT)—which signed on in July 1953.
KWCH-DT (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas, United States, serving the Wichita area as an affiliate of CBS.It is owned by Gray Media alongside CW affiliate KSCW-DT (channel 33) and maintains studios on 37th Street North in northeast Wichita and a transmitter facility located east of Hutchinson in rural northeastern Reno County.