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South Dakota’s First Radio Stations

The first KGDA “studio” was in the rear of the Home Auto Company garage at 329 Third Street, Dell Rapids. No official station records could be found, but the station probably went on tile air in 1...

The Stations That Went Away

Some of the most interesting radio stations in South Dakota are those that went out of business. A number of small communities—Dell Rapids, Oldham. Brookings. Mitchell, and Huron—had early radio s...

Central South Dakota

The broadcast pioneers in the central part of the state were Dana McNeil, a railway conductor, and his wife, Ida A. McNeil, of Pierre. McNeil started ex-perimenting in “ham radio” prior to...

WNAX- Yankton

The small town of Yankton, in the southeast corner of South Dakota, spawned one of the most distinctive and most spectacular radio stations in the United States. The station was WNAX. This is the stat...

Sioux Falls First Radio Stations

The first radio station in Sioux Falls was WFAT, built and owned by the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader in 1924. About a year after this station went. on the air, the newspaper donated the station and all it...

The Hill Country

The New Sound-FM

When World War II came to a close, broadcasters all over the country started thinking about FM frequency modulation. This new form of transmission, providing wider frequency ranges and elimination of ...

College and University Broadcasting

South Dakota institutions of higher education were among the pioneers in the field of broadcasting in the state. The University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University, and the South Dakota Sch...

KLXS

A new FM broadcast station at Pierre, South. Dakota, was authorized November 20, 1979 when the Federal Communications Commission granted Pierre Radio Inc. authorization to operate on 95.3 megacycles w...

KJJQ

On March 1, 1979, the Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit to the Dakota North Plains Corporation (L. T. Lausten, President and 81.99 percent owner along with five other stoc...

KORN

The station is owned by Nancy and Steve Nedved, through licensee Nedved Media, LLC. It airs a News/Sports/Talk radio format. The station offers a mix of local and syndicated programming including ...

KCCR

A Construction Permit was granted November 5, 1958 by the Federal Communications Commission for 1590 kilocycles with 1,000 watts daytime hours only at Pierre, South Dakota, to the Great. Plains Broadc...

KYNT

KYNT is known for its longtime brand of Yankton sports coverage, community news, and adult contemporary music. The call letters KYNT were assigned to a new AM broadcast station in Yankton, South Dakot...

KSFY

The station debuted on July 31, 1960 as KSOO-TV, the third station in Sioux Falls. It was owned by the South Dakota Broadcasting Company along with KSOOradio and was an NBC affiliate with a second...

KELO-TV

KELO signed on air on May 19, 1953 as South Dakota’s first television station. It was owned by Midcontinent Media, a theater and broadcasting conglomerate, along with KELO radio (AM 1320 and ...