KCLN (1390
AM) is a commercial
radio station
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licensed to serve the community of
Clinton, Iowa
Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 24,469 as of 2020. Clinton, along with DeWitt (also located in Clinton County), was named in honor of the sixth governor of New York, DeWitt Cl ...
. KCLN primarily airs an automated
oldies
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format. KCLN and its sister station
KMCN
KMCN (94.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Clinton, Iowa and broadcasting an Adult Hits format under the branding ''Mac 94.7''. The transmitter for KMCN is co-located with the transmitter of sister AM station KCLN in northern Clinton. In add ...
94.7 MHz (formerly 97.7 MHz) were owned from 1999 to 2018 by Prairie Radio Communications, which purchased the facilities from K to Z Ltd. who had been the owners of the AM/FM combo since 1990. KCLN began broadcasting in 1956.
The KCLN call letters supposedly were an initialism for "Keep Clinton Listeners Notified". They changed the call letters to KLNT which existed from 1978 to 1998. The format was generally Country Music during that time.
The KCLN-AM antenna uses two towers arranged in a directional array, concentrating the signal north–south along the Mississippi River. One of the two towers hosts the
FM antenna for sister station
KMCN
KMCN (94.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Clinton, Iowa and broadcasting an Adult Hits format under the branding ''Mac 94.7''. The transmitter for KMCN is co-located with the transmitter of sister AM station KCLN in northern Clinton. In add ...
.
Effective March 15, 2018, Prairie Radio sold KCLN and KMCN to Gendreau Broadcast LLC for $240,000.
External links
KCLN official websiteVIDEO: Wayne Larkey bungee jumps at Clinton Riverboat Days 1992
CLN
Clinton, Iowa
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