WDAF
WDAF may refer to:
WDAF-FM
WDAF-FM is a country music radio station based in Kansas City, Missouri, branded as "106-5 The Wolf". The station is licensed to Liberty, Missouri and broadcasts at 106.5 MHz with an ERP of 100,000 watts. Its transmitter is located in east Kansas City, and studios are located in Mission, Kansas.
History
Early years
106.5 FM signed on May 8, 1978 as KFIX. The station aired a Top 40/middle of the road format. KFIX aired NBC Network for hourly news updates. Prior to the official sign-on, they tested transmissions with the call letters KSAB (standing for "Strauss-Abernathy Broadcasting"). SW Radio Enterprises took over in 1979, flipping the format on November 19, changing call letters to KSAS, branded as "SAS 106 1/2". KSAS was a progressive rock station, in contrast to the more mainstream rock sound of KYYS at the time. Golden East Broadcasting bought the station in March 1982. In March 1983, the station flipped to album oriented rock, and changed call letters to KKCI. Longtime Kansas City personality Randy Miller made his first market appearance at KKCI. Transcolumbia bought the station in 1985. On October 2, 1986, after failing to compete against KYYS, KKCI flipped to soft rock, branded as "K-Lite", as well as changing call letters to KLYT. The station aired a very crowded format field, as the same format was heard on 6 other stations. In November 1987, Olympia Broadcasting bought the station.
KCSP (AM)
KCSP (610 AM, "610 Sports") is a sports/talk radio station located in Kansas City, Missouri. The Entercom-owned station broadcasts on 610 kHz. Its transmitter is located in Prairie Village, Kansas, and studios are located in Mission, Kansas.
KCSP AM is a class B regional station, with a broadcasting power of 5,000 Watts in both the daytime and nighttime, using a non-directional antenna (1 tower).
Although the station had the slogan "The Football Channel" when it began in June 2003, it is currently the flagship station of MLB's Kansas City Royals, whose rights it reacquired for the Entercom radio network in 2008 which had held the rights on KMBZ before. The Kansas Jayhawks radio network also appears on KCSP, which switched from covering the Missouri Tigers to Kansas in 2006, sending the Tigers broadcasts to KMBZ.
History
1922-1967 - WDAF (Full Service)
The Kansas City Star signed on experimental station 9XAB in 1922, licensed at 833 kHz, as part of a rivalry with other newspapers in town. Popular Science magazine noted the station in its March 1922 issue for airing weather and market reports at 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., and concerts in the evening. The Star adopted the WDAF call letters May 16, 1922. WDAF bounced around various frequencies, traveling to 750, 730, 680, 820 and 810 kHz. WDAF moved to 610 kHz in 1928, splitting time with station WOQ. WDAF joined the NBC radio network before moving to 610 kHz, running both Red & Blue programs up until 1930, when they became a primary NBC Red affiliate.
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