KZNS is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a Sports talk format. Licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

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, USA, it serves the Salt Lake City area. The station is currently owned by Simmons-SLC, LS, LLC and features programing from Sporting News Radio

Sporting News Radio

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 and Premiere Radio Networks

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.

As of February 1, 2011, KZNS' "The Zone" sports talk programming is also heard on KZNS-FM

KZNS-FM

KZNS-FM is a radio station broadcasting a sports radio format. Licensed to Coalville, Utah, the station serves Salt Lake City and the surrounding areas...

 97.5 licensed to Coalville, Utah

Coalville, Utah

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, a Salt Lake City area radio station which is in the process of being sold to KZNS owner Simmons Media.

History

As KDYL, the station was best known for its nostalgia format, however it carried primarily conservative talk radio programming between 2000 and late 2001. Shows hosted by Michael Savage

Michael Savage (commentator)

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 and Michael Medved

Michael Medved

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appeared. In November 2001, Simmons Media changed the format of the station to its current sports programming. Along with the change in formatting, the call sign became the current KZNS. Prior to 2000, the then KDYL aired music much similar to what it currently airs on the 1060 kHz station who requested and was granted the KDYL call letters after they were released by the 1280 kHz station. Prior to Simmons acquisition of the station, the call letters were KWMS, and previous to that, KNAK. When Simmons acquired the station, the KDYL call letters were assigned to the Tooele, Utah station, then at 990 kHz, and the owner of that station, then Thomas Mathis, was compensated to release the KDYL call letters, changing the call of his station to KTLE. Prior to the Tooele, UT station having the call of KDYL, those call letters were assigned to the 1320 kHz Salt Lake City station, now known as KFNZ. Simmons wanted the KDYL call because of its name recognition in their initial target demographic.

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