Broadcast area Sacramento Valley Audience share 0.5, #19 (Fa'07, R&R) Frequency 650 kHz Format Talk radio Area Sacramento Valley | First air date 1996 Class B City of license Rancho Cordova Owner iHeartMedia Inc | |
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Slogan Sacramento's Talk Station Power 21,400 watts by day
920 watts at night Branding The Very Independent Talk 650 Sister stations KFBK, KFBK-FM, KBEB, KHYL, KQJK | ||
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KSTE (650 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a Talk format. Licensed to Rancho Cordova, California, the station serves the Sacramento Valley. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and features shows from Westwood One and Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia. The station has studios in North Sacramento near the Arden Fair Mall, and its transmitter is southeast of the city in unincorporated Sacramento County.
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- Advertise on armstrong getty kste 650 am sacramento ca
- Programming
- Armstrong Getty
- News
- Sports
- References
By day, KSTE has a powerful 21,400 Watt signal, heard around much of Northern California. But because 650 kHz is a clear channel frequency, KSTE must reduce power at night to 920 watts, so it does not interfere with the dominant, older stations on its channel. KSTE first signed on in 1996, relatively late in AM broadcasting.
Programming
KSTE is programmed as a complement "second tier" talk station to its more dominant sister station KFBK. While most of the KFBK schedule is hosted by local personalities, KSTE features nationally syndicated talk shows. Weekday mornings begin with "Armstrong & Getty," a wake-up show based at KSTE and carried on stations around the West Coast and Hawaii. At 10 a.m., Jonathan Brandmeier from Chicago is heard. At noon, it's Sean Hannity, followed by Dave Ramsey at 3 p.m. Glenn Beck is heard at 6 p.m. followed by America Now with Meghan McCain at 9 p.m. At midnight, KSTE airs a repeat of Jonathan Brandmeier, followed by Jim Bohannon at 3 a.m. Weekends feature shows on money, religion, gardening and cars, as well as some paid Brokered programming. KSTE carries some syndicated shows on weekends including Handel on the Law, The Kim Komando Show, The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte and Bill Cunningham, as well as repeats of weekday shows. National news from CBS Radio airs at the beginning of each hour.
Armstrong & Getty
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty joined KSTE in 1998 and now have one of the highest rated morning radio shows in Northern California. They can also be heard on radio stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Honolulu and other cities in the West. Armstrong & Getty is the only locally-based weekday talk show on KSTE.
News
For a number of years, KSTE aired hourly CNN Radio newscasts from Westwood One, then known as Dial Global. On March 2, 2012, Dial Global announced it would discontinue distributing newscasts from CNN Radio and instead replace it with NBC News. CNN Radio affiliates would be switched to NBC on April 1, 2012. However, KSTE became an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network. The station only carries the 5-minute hourly newscasts and no other features from the network.
Sports
KSTE was the former home of Sacramento River Cats Minor League Baseball games, before they moved to KIFM.