KMJM (1360 AM) is a

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licensed to serve

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. The station is owned by

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and licensed to iHM Licenses, LLC. It airs an

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music format including Cedar Rapids Roughriders hockey, Coe College football, and serves as an overflow station for

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men's and women's basketball when games conflict with another Hawkeye event airing on sister station WMT.

History

The Cedar Rapids allocation for 1360 AM signed on in 1961, alongside its FM sister station at 98.1 FM, both taking on the call letters

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. Both stations formatted country music—although not exclusively until sometime later in the 1960s—and for many years, the AM signal was duplicated on the FM frequency. At some point in the mid-1990s, KHAK-AM changed its format to

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as KTOF-AM, and was a simulcast of KWOF in

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. On December 19, 2001, the station switched callsigns to the current KMJM and began airing a nostalgia format of "American music classics" from the 1930s and 1940s. KMJM would later flip to

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as "1360 The Fan." On January 11, 2010, KMJM changed their format to classic country. On October 10, 2017, KMJM flipped to adult standards, branded as "Leo 1360". The station had been airing one adult standards-nostalgia based program in the past, "Jim Doyne's Musical Memories," airing at noon Sundays, prior to the format switch. Every year during the first week of November, KMJM drops its regular format and plays Christmas music. On May 4, 2020, at Midnight, KMJM changed their format to oldies, while retaining the "Leo 1360" moniker. Cedar Rapids Station Flips to Oldies
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Previous logos

References

4. https://1360kmjm.iheart.com/music/recently-played/

External links

KMJM official website
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