KNZA
Encyclopedia
KNZA is a commercial
FM
radio station in Hiawatha, Kansas
, operating on 103.9 MHz. The station broadcasts with 35,000 watts from a 584 foot tower giving it a strong signal throughout Northeast Kansas.
. Carter and his staff stressed personalized rapport with the listening audience, with a country music and farm information format, and quickly built a faithful audience at a time when few cars or homes had FM radios. The station placed heavy emphasis in community involvement, broadcasting the play by play of as many as 100 regional high school football and basketball games every year.
In 1985, Carter sold his interest in KNZA to two employees, Gregory Buser and Robert Hilton, who are the current owners and continued to operate with the same successful philosophy.
Commercial broadcasting
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FM
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radio station in Hiawatha, Kansas
Hiawatha, Kansas
Hiawatha is the largest city and county seat of Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,172. It is the largest city on U.S. Route 36 between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado.Hiawatha is named after a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
, operating on 103.9 MHz. The station broadcasts with 35,000 watts from a 584 foot tower giving it a strong signal throughout Northeast Kansas.
History
KNZA-FM was originally built by Mike Carter in 1977, in a field 6 miles south of Hiawatha, KansasHiawatha, Kansas
Hiawatha is the largest city and county seat of Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,172. It is the largest city on U.S. Route 36 between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Denver, Colorado.Hiawatha is named after a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
. Carter and his staff stressed personalized rapport with the listening audience, with a country music and farm information format, and quickly built a faithful audience at a time when few cars or homes had FM radios. The station placed heavy emphasis in community involvement, broadcasting the play by play of as many as 100 regional high school football and basketball games every year.
In 1985, Carter sold his interest in KNZA to two employees, Gregory Buser and Robert Hilton, who are the current owners and continued to operate with the same successful philosophy.