KDYL is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting an Oldies

Oldies

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 format. Licensed to South Salt Lake, Utah

South Salt Lake, Utah

South Salt Lake is a city in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 23,617 at the 2010 census.-History:...

, USA, it serves the Salt Lake City area. The station is currently owned by Holiday Broadcasting Company.
KDYL also broadcasts its signal using CAM-D

CAM-D

Compatible Amplitude Modulation - Digital or CAM-D is a proposed hybrid digital radio format for AM broadcasting, put forth by well-known broadcast engineer Leonard R. Kahn....

, a digital transmission method developed by broadcast engineer Leonard R. Kahn.

History

KDYL first went on the air in 1922, its license being granted on May 8, 1922. KDYL was a luck-of-the–draw government assigned call. Later, KDYL had sister TV and FM stations too. The complete company was sold in about 1953 with the television call changing to KTVT

KTVT

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, KCPX

KCPX

KCPX is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk format. Licensed to Spanish Valley, Utah, USA, the station is currently owned by Moab Communications, LLC....

, and KTVX TV. The AM/FM was divested along the way.

When it went on the air in 1922, it shared a wavelength with two other commercial stations in Salt Lake City. At that time, the FCC had not been formed and several stations shared a “wavelength” by going on and off at pre-arranged times. Unlike today, radio receivers in 1922 were wavelength not frequency orientated.

The long-time owner of KDYL was a man by the name of Sidney S. Fox. He was a gambler and promoter and KDYL AM radio and television was one of his tools. Sid obtained the AM radio license in 1926 from a newspaper that couldn’t figure out what to do with it.

By the late 1930’s KDYL had become an NBC Radio affiliate. The KDYL calls were later licensed to Tooele, Utah

Tooele, Utah

Tooele is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 22,502 at the 2000 census, and 30,708 as of the 2009 estimates. It is the county seat of Tooele County...

 for a few years before moving to 1280 AM in the 1990s and licensed to Salt Lake City, owned by Simmons Media Group

Simmons Media Group

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.

1060 changes calls and formats

In 2004, Holiday Broadcasting Co filed for the KDYL calls after Simmons Media dropped the Adult Standard format and the KDYL calls, changing to KZNS

KZNS

thumb|The radio towers for KZNS, north of the [[Salt Lake City International Airport]]KZNS is a radio station broadcasting a Sports talk format. Licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, it serves the Salt Lake City area...

, a sports station. 1060 AM had been an oldies station previously in the 1980s, then known as KRSP. On September 24, 1990, the frequency changed its call sign to KKDS and began broadcasting for children, first with The Imagination Station (Kids' Choice Broadcasting Network) through February 27, 1991, and then with Radio AAHS

Radio AAHS

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 until January 1998. KDYL, the station's current call sign, returned to air on February 2, 2004.

KDYL switches formats

KDYL, at its return to air in 2004, was an Adult Standards

Adult standards

Adult standards is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations.Adult standards is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly those persons over 50 years of age, but it is mostly targeted for senior citizens...

 radio station broadcasting Jones Radio Networks

Jones Radio Networks

Jones Radio Networks & Jones Media Group were branches of Jones International before being sold to Triton Media Group. JRN and JMN provide local radio stations with satellite-delivered formats. They also offer other services to local radio such as news and talk programs, syndicated radio shows,...

' Music of Your Life

Music of Your Life

Music of Your Life is a satellite-delivered radio network featuring the Adult Standards music format. Created by record executive and jingle writer Al Ham, and now under the direction of Marc Angell, Music of Your Life has more than 50 AM, FM and HD-2 radio station affiliates, and has been in...

 format. On January 1, 2008, the station switched to a "Real Oldies" format with live and local personalities, spotlighting hits from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. The change put the station in competition with another local oldies radio station KKAT

KKAT (AM)

KKAT is a radio station broadcasting an talk format serving the Salt Lake City area. This is an ABC Radio O&O station through its parent company Cumulus Media....

, which, at the time aired Scott Shannon

Scott Shannon

Michael Scott Shannon is a radio disc jockey, current co-host of the "Scott and Todd in the Morning" show on WPLJ, host of The True Oldies Channel, and the official voice of The Sean Hannity Show.-Early Radio Career:...

's True Oldies Channel, although for now, unlike the True Oldies Channel, KDYL's playlist includes only a small amount of post-1970 music. KKAT would eventually change formats, making KDYL the only true oldies station in the Salt Lake metro area.

External links

• Radio's KDYL returns to its oldies music roots, The Deseret Morning News, 01-11-2008