Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, or K.C., is the largest city, and second largest metropolitan area, in the state of Missouri. It is the 37th–largest city by population in the United States and the 23rd–largest by area. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Kansas–Missouri border. It was founded in the 1830s as a Missouri River port at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west. Originally called Kansas after the river, this became confusing upon the establishment of Kansas Territory in 1854. The name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish the two.

Sitting on Missouri's western border, with downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the modern city encompasses 316 square miles (820 km²). Most of the city is located in Jackson County, but portions of the city spill into Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is one of Jackson County's two county seats (the other being Independence). The 18th and Vine Neighborhood gave birth to the musical styles of Kansas City jazz and Kansas City blues. It is also known for Kansas City-style barbecue. The area is infamous for the Border War that occurred during the American Civil War, including the Battle of Westport and Bleeding Kansas. Major suburbs include the Missouri cities of Independence and Lee's Summit and the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Olathe, and Kansas City.

KCMO (AM)

KCMO (710 kHz) is a AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri. Owned by Cumulus Media, the station's studios are located in Mission, Kansas, and the transmitter is in the Kansas City's Northeast side. The station airs a Conservative Talk format. The station broadcasts at 10,000 watts by day and 5000 watts at night, covering the Kansas City metropolitan area. With a good radio, the station can be heard not just in sections of Missouri and Kansas but also parts of Iowa and Nebraska.

On April 30, 2012 KCMO-AM began simulcasting on FM translator 103.7 K279BI via KCFX-HD2.

Programming

KCMO airs both local and nationally syndicated talk shows, most of which come from the Westwood One Network, a subsidiary of parent company Cumulus Media. Mornings are hosted by radio veteran Rob Carson (6 to 10 a.m.), with hosts Steve Sutton doing late mornings (10 a.m. to Noon) and Greg Knapp doing late afternoons (4 to 6 p.m.). The rest of the weekday schedule comes from syndicated shows: Dave Ramsey, Michael Savage, Mark Levin, John Batchelor, Red Eye Radio and America in The Morning. Weekends feature shows on money, health, religion, gardening and horses, some of which are Brokered programming. Syndicated shows heard on weekends include Larry Kudlow and Bob Brinker.

KCMO (disambiguation)

KCMO may refer to: