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550 KUSA KSD TRANSITION QUESTION??

T

thebeach33445

Hey GUYS:

I am having a problem getting the transition straight on KUSA to KSD. I am finding all of this info and I can't get it in order.

1. Did KUSA 550 change to classic country then to CNN News? If yes, When did all of this happen?

2. Did KSD 550 change from Nostalgia to Talk as KSD then to Talk KTRS?

Thanks guys for your help on this one.

T.J.
 
T.J.: I can't help you with first part of your question. When I went to work at KSD-FM in 1994, the AM was already talk (I think Country KUSA disappeared when EZ Communications bought the station in '93). Much of the broadcast day was simulcast with KSDK-TV (starting with Today in St. Louis at 5 AM). Later that year, KSD-AM started the Nostalgia format going up against WRTH 1430, with John Carney (who had come over from WEW) and ABC's Adult Standards network the rest of the day. Eventually, they dropped the format at night, putting on syndicated talk shows (including Art Bell overnight). In 1995 they returned to talk, Carney was moved to middays and Frank O. Pinion moved over from KSD-FM to do mornings. The station was sold to Tim Dorsey in 1997 and became KTRS.
 
The switch happened before Gannett sold the station. They originally continued to use the KUSA call letters with the news format, and the station resumed its historical KSD Call letters for the last time between 93 - 97. KMOX PD Steve Moore was brought in from Columbia, MO in 95, and Mark Reardon (Now PM Drive at KMOX) came in to do mornings when John Carney jumped ship to go work for Dorsey on the innagural crew of WIBV; one of the few on the original staff who did not come from KMOX.
 
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