KUMA (AM)

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KUMA
File:KUMA (AM) logo.jpg
City of license Pendleton, Oregon
Branding News/Talk 1290
Frequency 1290 kHz
First air date August 25, 1955
Format News/Talk
Power 5,000 watts (day)
5,000 watts (night)
Class B
Facility ID 57756
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Callsign meaning UMAtilla County
Affiliations Citadel Media, Premiere Radio Networks
Owner Capps Broadcast Group
(Round-Up Radio, Inc.)
Sister stations KCMB, KTEL, KTIX, KUMA-FM, KWHT, KWRL, KWVN-FM
Webcast Listen Live
Website 1290kuma.com

KUMA (1290 AM, "News/Talk 1290") is a radio station licensed to serve Pendleton, Oregon, USA. The station is owned by Capps Broadcast Group and the broadcast license is held by Round-Up Radio, Inc. David N. Capps and Clare M. Ferguson-Capps, a married couple, own 100% of the stock in Round-Up Radio, Inc., through the Dave and Clare Capps Family Trust.[1]

Programming

KUMA broadcasts a news/talk radio format which features programming from Citadel Media and Premiere Radio Networks.[2] Local weekday programming includes The Morning Edition with Butch Thurman and Danny Houle plus a 30-minute program called The Coffee Hour.

Syndicated programming includes talk shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh,[3] Lars Larson,[4] Dave Ramsey, Laura Ingraham,[5] and Jim Bohannon,[6] plus Coast to Coast AM hosted by George Noory.[7] KUMA also airs The Huckabee Report with former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. Weekend programming includes syndicated shows hosted by Kim Kommando and Dr. Dean Edell[7] plus At Home with Gary Sullivan.[8]

History

Call Letters

The call letters KUMA were assigned to a station in Yuma, Arizona, June 22, 1932. It operated on 1420 kHz with 100 W power. That station had been KFXY, Flagstaff, Arizona.[9]

Current station

This station began regular broadcasting on August 25, 1955, as a 1,000 watt daytime-only station broadcasting at 1370 kHz.[10] The station, owned and operated by the Pendleton Broadcasting Company, began unlimited 5,000 watt operation at 1290 kHz on January 3, 1956.[11] Pendleton Broadcasting Company was owned by the Fisher family as one of four Oregon radio stations controlled by the Fisher Stations Group.[11]

Pendleton Broadcasting Company, licensee of KUMA, was acquired by Theodore A. "Ted" Smith and his wife Phyllis on November 1, 1966.[12] Ted Smith had joined Pendleton Broadcasting Company in 1955, as general manager of KUMA, after his service in the United States Navy.[13][14] Ted Smith served as the president of the Oregon Association of Broadcasters in 1962.[15] KUMA was joined by an FM sister station, dubbed KUMA-FM, in 1978.[13] In September 1988, Ted and Phyllis Smith applied to the FCC to transfer control of the Pendleton Broadcasting Company to Gregory A. Smith, their son.[16][17] The deal was approved by the FCC on November 18, 1988.[16]

In March 1993, Pendleton Broadcasting Company, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station and AM sister station KUMA to Round-Up Radio, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on July 1, 1993, and the transaction was consummated on the same day.[18]

KUMA switched to its current all-talk format in October 2002.[19] The station's initial talk lineup included syndicated news and talk programming hosted by Rush Limbaugh, Paul Harvey, Michael Reagan, Laura Ingraham, Jim Bohannon, and Art Bell.[19]

Facilities

KUMA shares a studio building with sister stations KTIX (1240 AM), KWVN-FM (107.7 FM), and KWHT (103.5 FM).[20] This multi-station Capps Broadcast Group facility is located at the west end of Eastern Oregon Regional Airport.[20][21]

References

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