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((short description|News/talk radio station in Wichita, Kansas))
((Use mdy dates|date=December 2023))
((More citations needed|date=September 2014))
((Infobox radio station
| name = KNSS
| city = [[Wichita, Kansas]]
| logo = 987_KNSS_FM.png
| logo_size = 175px
| area = [[Wichita metropolitan area]]
| branding = KNSS Radio or News Talk 98.7 and 1330 KNSS
| airdate = ((start date|1922|5|26))
| frequency = ((frequency|1330|[[Hertz#SI multiples|KHz]]))
| language = [[American English|English]]
| format = [[News/talk]]
| power = ((val|5000|u=[[watt]]s|fmt=commas))
| class = B
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| facility_id = 53152
| callsign_meaning = "Kansas" and "news station"
| former_callsigns = ((ubl|WEAH (1922–25)|KFH (1925–2004)<ref name="hc">((cite web |title=FCC History Cards for KNSS |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=52122))</ref>))
| former_frequencies = ((ubl|1120 kHz (1927)|1220 kHz (1927–1928)|1300 kHz (1928–[[North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement#March 29, 1941 implementation|1941]])<ref name="hc" />))
| affiliations = ((ubl|[[Fox News Radio]]|[[Premiere Networks]]|[[Radio America (United States)|Radio America]]|[[Westwood One]]|[[Kansas City Chiefs]]))
| owner = [[Audacy, Inc.]]
| licensee = Audacy License, LLC, as Debtor-in-Possession
| sister_stations = ((hlist|[[KDGS]]|[[KEYN-FM]]|[[KFBZ]]|[[KFH (AM)|KFH]]|[[KNSS-FM]]))
| repeater = ((Radio Relay|98.7|[[KNSS-FM]]|[[Clearwater, Kansas|Clearwater]]))
| webcast = ((Audacy.com|knss))
| website = ((url|https://www.audacy.com/knss))
| coordinates = ((coord|37|42|47|N|97|14|51|W|type:landmark_region:US))
))
'''KNSS''' (1330 [[kHz]], "News Talk 98.7 and 1330") is a [[commercial radio|commercial]] [[AM radio|AM]] [[radio station]] in [[Wichita, Kansas]]. It carries a [[news/talk]] [[radio format]] and is owned by [[Audacy, Inc.]] The station [[simulcast]]s with co-owned [[KNSS-FM]] 98.7 [[MHz]].  The [[radio studio|studio]]s and offices are on East Douglas Avenue in Wichita.<ref>[https://knss.radio.com/contact-us KNSS.com/contact-us]</ref>

KNSS is powered at 5,000 [[watt]]s.  At night, to protect other stations on [[1330 AM]], it uses a [[directional antenna]].  The [[transmitter]] is off North Rock Road in the [[Neighborhoods of Wichita, Kansas|Rockhurst]] neighborhood of Wichita.<ref>[https://radio-locator.com/info/KNSS-AM Radio-Locator.com/KNSS]</ref>

==Programming==
Weekdays on KNSS-AM-FM begin with ''Steve & Ted'', a news and interview show featuring Steve McIntosh and Ted Woodward.  The rest of the schedule is made up of [[radio syndication|nationally syndicated]] [[conservative talk]] shows:  ''[[The Glenn Beck Program]]'', ''[[The Rush Limbaugh Show]]'', ''[[The Sean Hannity Show]]'', ''The [[Mark Levin]] Show'', ''[[Savage Nation]] with [[Michael Savage]]'', ''The [[Ben Shapiro]] Show'' and ''[[Coast to Coast AM]] with [[George Noory]]''.

Weekends feature shows on money, health, retirement, food and wine, some of which are paid [[brokered programming]].  Weekend syndicated shows include: ''Handel on The Law with [[Bill Handel]]'', ''The Truth About Money with [[Ric Edelman]]'' and ''Sunday Night Live with [[Bill Cunningham (talk show host)|Bill Cunningham]]'' as well as repeats of weekday shows.  Most hours begin with world and national news from [[Fox News Radio]].  During [[NFL]] football season, KNSS-AM-FM carry [[Kansas City Chiefs]] broadcasts.

==History==

(For a history of the 1240 AM signal, see [[KFH (AM)|KFH]].)

KNSS is one of Kansas' oldest radio stations, [[sign-on|signing on]] the air on May 26, 1922, although it began experimental broadcasts in March 1922.<ref>((cite web |title=FCC History Cards for KFH |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=45076))</ref><ref>((cite web |title=KFH Facility Data |url=https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=53598 |website=FCCData))</ref>  Its [[call sign]] was originally WEAH.<ref>[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1935/Stations-by-State-Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201935%20Complete.pdf Information] from the [[Broadcasting Yearbook]] 1935 page 32</ref>

On June 23, 1923, the station was sold to the Wichita Board of Trade. During a period of nearly two years, the Rigby Gray Hotel Company Corporation (operator of the [[Lassen Hotel (Wichita, Kansas)|Lassen Hotel]]) gradually took over the ownership, with the final sale taking place on April 30, 1925. The hotel company changed the call letters to KFH, standing for "Kansas' Finest Hotel".  At 9:45((nbsp))am, February 14, 1926, the first radio broadcast under the call letters KFH was made. ''[[The Wichita Eagle]]'', a local newspaper, purchased 50% of KFH on October 1, 1929.

KFH became a [[CBS Radio News|Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)]] affiliate on October 8, 1929.  KFH carried the CBS line up of dramas, comedies, news, sports, [[soap opera]]s, [[game show]]s and [[big band]] broadcasts during the "[[Golden Age of Radio]]".  In the 1930s, it began broadcasting on 1300 [[kilocycle]]s with 1,000 watts.

The [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) authorized an increase in daytime power to 5,000 watts on May 28, 1935.<ref>((cite news|title=(untitled brief)|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1935/1935-06-01-BC.pdf|access-date=October 24, 2014|agency=Broadcasting|date=June 1, 1935))</ref>  In 1941, with the enactment of the [[North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement]] (NARBA), the station switched to its present-day frequency of 1330&nbsp;kHz.<ref>[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1943/Radio%20-%20%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201943%20BW.pdf Broadcasting Yearbook 1943 page 96]</ref>

Ownership remained under the control of the hotel company until June 5, 1963, when the FCC approved the transfer of the station license to Aeschlayer & Reynolds of [[Dallas, Texas]]. The new owner retained the station for less than five and a half years and sold KFH to Phil and [[Nancy Kassebaum]], operating under the corporate name "KFH Radio, Inc." on November 1, 1968.  (Nancy Kassebaum was elected to the [[U.S. Senate]] in 1978.) By this time, KFH shifted to an [[easy listening]]/[[beautiful music]] format.

On September 13, 1978, KFH flipped from its longtime [[Middle of the road (music)|MOR]] format to [[country music|country]]; during this time, the station was an affiliate [[Wichita Wings]] soccer games.<ref>Dorothy Belden, "KFH Format Receiving Face Lift", ''The Wichita Eagle'', September 13, 1978.</ref> In 1988, the Kassebaums sold the station to Midcontinent Broadcasting; on October 19 of that year, KFH flipped to a simulcast of new station [[KFBZ|KXLK]] (105.3 FM), then flipped to [[oldies]] the following March.<ref>Ellen Dyer, "Midcontinent buys KFH-AM", ''The Wichita Eagle-Beacon'', July 28, 1988.</ref><ref>Bob Curtright, "KFH signs off on its country", ''The Wichita Eagle-Beacon'', October 21, 1988.</ref> On July 26, 1993, KFH flipped to [[news/talk]].<ref>Diane Samms Rush, "KFH-AM going back to news/talk format", ''The Wichita Eagle'', July 29, 1993.</ref>

On July 1, 1994, Midcontinent sold KFH to Pourtales Radio Partnership. Pourtales did not retain ownership very long; the company signed a letter of intent to sell KFH to Triathlon Broadcasting on Friday, March 24, 1995, and completed the sale on June 2, 1995.  The station was in turn sold to Entercom (now Audacy) on February 23, 2000.<ref>[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2001/D-Radio-All-BC-YB-2001.pdf Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2001 page D-177]</ref>

KFH carried a [[talk radio]] format from 1993 until 2002, when it shifted most of its political talk shows to KNSS, and shifted to a [[hot talk]] format.  Also that year, KFH added a [[simulcast]] on 98.7 FM, displacing [[smooth jazz]] KWSJ.  The FM station switched its call sign to KFH-FM.

On August 30, 2004, the KFH call sign and hot talk format moved to AM 1240; concurrently, AM 1330 became KNSS, and adopted the station's news/talk format.<ref>Bob Curtright, "KNSS, KFH to switch AM radio frequencies at the end of the month", ''The Wichita Eagle'', August 11, 2004.</ref><ref>((cite web | url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=53152&Callsign=KNSS | title=Call Sign History ))</ref><ref>http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=53598 [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=53598&Callsign=KFH]</ref>

The station's studios were originally located at North Woodlawn and East 21st in Northeast Wichita.  On May 20, 2015, the studios moved to the Ruffin Building at 9111 East Douglas, formerly the [[Pizza Hut]] corporate headquarters.<ref>((cite web|title=Entercom Radio to move to Ruffin Building|url=http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2014/06/23/entercom-radio-to-move-to-ruffin-building/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019060416/http://blogs.kansas.com/haveyouheard/2014/06/23/entercom-radio-to-move-to-ruffin-building/|publisher=[[The Wichita Eagle]]|first=Carrie|last=Rengers|date=June 23, 2014|archive-date=October 19, 2014))</ref>

KNSS began [[simulcast]]ing on KNSS-FM (98.7) on October 12, 2016. Prior to then, the 98.7 frequency was KFH-FM, a simulcast of KFH.<ref name="twe-kfh975">((cite news|title=Which Wichita radio stations are moving spots on the dial?|url=http://www.kansas.com/entertainment/article106702237.html|access-date=October 15, 2016|work=[[The Wichita Eagle]]|date=October 7, 2016))</ref>  KFH-AM-FM were [[network affiliate]]s of [[ESPN Radio]]. KFH continues as a [[sports radio]] station on its own, now with an [[FM translator]] station at 97.5&nbsp;MHz.

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((Official website|https://www.audacy.com/knss))
* ((AM station data|KNSS))

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