KFOR (1240 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in

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. It broadcasts a talk

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and is owned by

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, through licensee Alpha 3E Licensee LLC. The studios are on Cornhusker Highway ( U.S. Route 6) in Northeast Lincoln. KFOR is a Class C station. It is powered at 1,000 watts using a non-directional antenna. The

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is on Vine Street east of downtown Lincoln. Programming is also heard on 130-watt

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K268DF at 101.5

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Programming

Weekdays on KFOR begin with ''Lincoln's Morning News'', hosted by Chris Schmidt and Carol Turner, with news and sports from Jeff Motz. KFOR also has a local talk show in late morning and a local sports show in late afternoons. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated talk programs: '' The Dan Bongino Show, The Joe Pags Show,

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, The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, Bloomberg Daybreak, America in the Morning, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'' and ''Markley, Van Camp & Robbins''. Weekends feature specialty shows on health, money, aging, gardening, pets, real estate, cars and the outdoors. Syndicated weekend shows include '' Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb, The Weekend with Michael Brown'' and '' The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Savaadra''. In the summer, KFOR carries Lincoln Saltdogs

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. Other sports programming include Kansas City Chiefs football and high school sports in the Lincoln area. Most hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio.

History

KFOR signed on the air in March 1924. It was the fourth radio station in Nebraska. Its original city of license was David City, Nebraska. New owners moved the station to Lincoln in 1927, with studios in the Hotel Lincoln. In the 1930s, the station broadcast on 1210 kilocycles. It had 250 watts of power but it was a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. In 1941, with the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), KFOR moved to its current dial position at 1240 kHz. It was a Class IV station, allowed to broadcast at 250 watts around the clock. The station was a

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of the

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, carrying its dramas, comedies, news and sports during the " Golden Age of Radio." The radio ministry '' Back to the Bible'' originated on KFOR in 1939. From May 1953 to March 1954, the station's owners operated a television station, KFOR-TV (now dark). On February 15, 2023, at midnight, KFOR began simulcasting on sister station KLMS 1480 AM which had dropped its long-running

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format. KFOR also was heard on FM translator K268DF (101.5 FM), which relayed KLMS. The next day, KFOR's former translator, 103.3 K277CA, began relaying KLMS, which flipped to an adult hits format as "Mix 103.3".Alpha Preps Lincoln Signal Shuffle
Radioinsight - February 15, 2023 KFOR's translator became K268DF at 101.5 FM.

References

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FCC History Cards for KFOR
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