KDKD (1280 AM) was a

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broadcasting a farm and

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station was owned by Clayton and Brittany Radford, through licensee Radford Media Group, LLC. KDKD featured programming from

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and

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History

KDKD signed on May 11, 1951, as a 1,000-watt

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owned by David M. Segal, joining a group that already included KTFS in

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;

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; WGVM in

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; and KDAS in

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. Additional stakes in the station were held by Lee E. Baker and Jeanne F. Baker; the license was held by a partnership

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Clinton Broadcasting Company. The Clinton Broadcasting Company sold the station to the Osage Broadcasting Company in 1956.

Closure

On December 27, 2021, Radford Media Group announced that KDKD would shut down on at 5:15p.m. on December 31, after being informed by

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that the station's tower was to be dismantled in January 2022. KDKD's final program, a 15-minute retrospective on the station's history, simulcasted on KDKD-FM.

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broadcasts, which had aired on KDKD since the team's inception, were moved to sister station KXEA. The final song played on KDKD was

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. The retrospective was actually five minutes before KDKD-FM went straight to an unscripted station ID & then "

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" by

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for the remainder of its intended airtime. The station's license was cancelled by the

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on September 22, 2022.

References

External links

FCC Station Search Details: DKDKD
(Facility ID: 12058)
FCC History Cards for KDKD
(covering 1950-1981) DKD Defunct radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1951 Radio stations disestablished in 2022 1951 establishments in Missouri 2022 disestablishments in Missouri DKD-AM {{Missouri-radio-station-stub