KCXL agrees to broadcast Russian-owned ‘propaganda’ program

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article239359868.html

A Kansas City area radio station can broadcast Russian state-owned media programming, the type that U.S. intelligence called a “propaganda machine,” for six hours a day through a lease agreement struck by a local radio operator.

RM Broadcasting LLC, a Florida-based company that has agreements to broadcast the Russian state media program Radio Sputnik, reached a deal on Jan. 1 to lease air time through Alpine Broadcasting Corp. in Liberty. Alpine Broadcasting Corp. broadcasts on three frequencies in the Kansas City area: KCXL 1140 AM, 102.9 FM and 104.7 FM.

The lease agreement lets RM Broadcasting air its programming from 6 to 9 a.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. seven days a week. KCXL’s website, which says that it’s the radio station that will “tell you the things that the liberal media wont (sic) tell you,” lists Radio Sputnik in its morning programming.

It will be interesting to see how the FCC will respond to this allegation given how polarizing talking about the Russian Government has been for the past 4 years though.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article239359868.html

RM Broadcasting buys air time for Radio Sputnik only in Washington D.C. and Kansas City. RM Broadcasting’s filing regarding KCXL indicates RM Broadcasting is being paid a $324,000 service fee from Rossiya Segodnya to transmit shows in Kansas City.

KCXL’s president is Peter Schartel, who could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday. Messages to the radio station were not immediately returned.

Schartel bought the station in 1993, according to a 1997 story in The Star. That story quoted Schartel characterizing himself as “basically a liberal, patriotic American...but our government has done some horrible things.”

KCXL grabbed attention in 2018 for providing air time to Steve West, a Republican candidate in Clay County for the Missouri House of Representatives who used his “Jack Justice” radio show to discuss what The Star then described as “fanatical conspiracies about ‘Jewish cabals’ that are ‘harvesting baby parts’ through Planned Parenthood, that torture and molest children and that run the Republican Party.”

KCXL’s website today describes itself as an outlet that “will bring you the truth.”

Here is a profile of KCXL's management.

 

[TheBigA]

It will be interesting to see how the FCC will respond to this allegation given how polarizing talking about the Russian Government has been for the past 4 years though.

There's a station in Washington DC running Sputnik, and the only thing the FCC said was the owner had to register as a foreign agent.

http://www.insideradio.com/free/fcc...cle_9e5f6b06-4d09-11e8-89d9-eb45ebb7ef43.html

 

[AnyHuman]

KCXL is big on Catholic programming as well.
It usually airs news/talk/Catholic on weekdays and classic hits/oldies/Catholic on weekends.

 

[CTListener]

KCXL is big on Catholic programming as well.
It usually airs news/talk/Catholic on weekdays and classic hits/oldies/Catholic on weekends.

Well, that explains the spewing of ancient anti-Semitic blood-libel, doesn't it? (The Catholicism, not the oldies.)

 

[AnyHuman]

KCXL and it's translators are now broadcasting KCTO's audio. KCTO recently flipped to Radio Maria in Spanish. Evidently they're both prone to switching to each other's feeds, as I've heard KCXL on KCTO before when Radio Maria Spanish would go down. How embarrassing LOL KCXL is now playing Spanish Christian music.

 

[AnyHuman]

KCXL and it's FM signals are once again the usual adult standards music on weekends. They got fixed since my last post.

 

[AnyHuman]

Earlier today, around 5:30 AM, KCXL was playing Spanish Christian music, with no imaging. I thought this was a talk station in English, and it has since switched back to talk in English. It's playing Radio Sputnik right now, as it should be.

Earlier when KCXL was playing Spanish music, KCTO was silence. Now, KCTO is playing this horrible noise... Anyone know what is causing this humming noise? It sounds like KCXL's talk programming is partially covered up by the humming.
Listen to the annoying sound here

 

[semoochie]

It makes one ponder as to what Joe McCarthy would've thought about all of this.