Class B Affiliations NBC Sports Radio Frequency 930 kHz Format Sports radio Branding Red Zone Sports Radio | Facility ID 69484 Website radioredzone.com City of license Aitkin Owner Red River Broadcasting Sister stations KKIN-FM | |
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Broadcast area Aitkin, Minnesota
Aitkin County, Minnesota Power 2,500 watts daytime
360 watts nighttime Area Aitkin, Aitkin County, Minnesota | ||
KKIN is a sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Aitkin, Minnesota, serving Aitkin and Aitkin County, Minnesota. KKIN-AM is owned and operated by Red Rock Radio Corporation
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History
KKIN started out as a station that plays old time country music from the 1940s to the 1970s with such artists as Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams. Now that is the music that is played on KKIN-FM (94.3 FM). In the early 1980s, the format had switched to oldies. In the mid 1990s, in spite of the increase of older people in the area, the station had switched to its current standards format.
KKIN-AM was an affiliate of America's Best Music format. In recent years the format has changed to feature less big bands and traditional standards, to a more or less oldies/soft adult contemporary format playing softer music that was popular from the 1960s to today that is targeted to the more mature listening audience, age 45 and older. Some 1940s and 1950s music is still played on KKIN but it is not as prominent as it was in the previous decades.
The station is also one of the few in the country, along with Radio Disney that are still broadcasting in AM Stereo.
On August 4, 2014 KKIN changed their format to sports, with programming from NBC Sports Radio.
History of call letters
The call letters KKIN were previously assigned to an AM station in Visalia, California. It broadcast on 1400 kHz.