KSAM (AM)

KSAM (1240 AM, "SAM 1240") is a radio station licensed to serve Whitefish, Montana. The station is owned by Bee Broadcasting, Inc. It airs a sports format.[1]

This article is about the AM radio station in Whitefish, Montana. For the FM station in Huntsville, Texas known as KSAM-FM, see KSAM-FM.
KSAM
CityWhitefish, Montana
Broadcast areaFlathead County, Montana
Frequency1240 kHz
BrandingSports Talk 1240 - 102.7
SloganThe Flathead's Sports Station
Programming
FormatSports
AffiliationsFox Sports Radio
Ownership
OwnerBee Broadcasting, Inc.
Sister stationsKBBZ, KDBR, KHNK, KJJR, KWOL, KRVO
History
First air date2005
Call sign meaningSAM Houston (1st & 3rd President; 7th Governor of Texas.) Originally utilized by KHVL Huntsville, Texas in 1938; calls continue to reside on the 1965 licensed FM facility.)
Technical information
Facility ID160441
ClassC
Power400 watts (unlimited)
Transmitter coordinates48°23′44″N 114°19′11″W
Translator(s)102.7 MHz K274CY (Whitefish)
Links
Websitesam1240.com

All Bee Broadcasting stations are based at 2431 Highway 2 East, Kalispell.

The station was assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on November 16, 2005.[2] This callsign had been assigned to an AM radio station in Huntsville, Texas for nearly 80 years, now known as KHVL. The FM counterpart continues to reside in Huntsville since 1965, as KSAM-FM.[3]

Since 2017, KSAM's AM broadcasts are simulcast on 102.7 FM over translator K274CY.

(KSAM's logo under previous ESPN Radio affiliation)

gollark: * automatically → easily automatically
gollark: Which is the problem.
gollark: But you can't automatically detect whether a particular keyword or trending item is a political ideology.
gollark: The best* way would probably be a Twitter scraper to determine how much people are talking about each ideology, but their API is really annoying to get access to and you'd need to explicitly compile a list or something.
gollark: I should totally implement this! It would be really easy with a simple hashing-type thing. The hard part would just be finding the political views and determine the weights (as I assume you don't want all politics with the same frequency).

References
  1. "Winter 2008 Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  2. "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  3. "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.


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