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26-454: KFH may refer to: KFH (AM) , a radio station (1240 AM) licensed to Wichita, Kansas, United States Kuwait Finance House KNSS-FM , a radio station (98.7 FM) licensed to Clearwater, Kansas, United States that held the KFH-FM call sign from 2002 until 2016 KNSS (AM) , a radio station (1330 AM) licensed to Wichita, Kansas, United States that held

52-461: A 250 watt FM translator station, K248CY (97.5 FM). ** = Audacy operates pursuant to a local marketing agreement with Martz Communications Group . Chronicle Publishing Company The Chronicle Publishing Company was a print and broadcast media corporation headquartered in San Francisco , California that was in operation from 1865 until 2000. Owned for the whole of its existence by

78-779: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages KFH (AM) KFH is powered at 630 watts , using a non-directional antenna . The transmitter is off West 19th Street, in Wichita, near Interstate 135 . Programming is also heard in Wichita and adjacent communities on 250 watt FM translator K248CY at 97.5 MHz . KFH mostly carries nationally syndicated programs from ESPN Radio . Two local shows are heard on weekdays: Sports Daily with Jacob Albracht and Tommy Castor in late mornings and The Drive with Bob and Jeff Lutz in afternoon drive time . Some features from Infinity Sports Network (formerly CBS Sports Radio) are also heard, along with

104-759: The Worcester Telegram & Gazette in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1986. In 1988, Chronicle Publishing made its final purchase in buying Motorbooks , a renowned imprint dealing with automotive books; Chronicle Publishing then established MBI Publishing Company as parent company to Classic Motorbooks and Motorbooks International. As late as 1993, Nan Tucker McEvoy , granddaughter of San Francisco Chronicle founder M. H. de Young and chair of Chronicle Publishing Company's board of directors , declined an offer of $ 800 million made by Hearst Corporation for Chronicle Publishing. She told Editor & Publisher that

130-475: The Chronicle 's entering a joint operating agreement with the rival The San Francisco Examiner in which the Chronicle would publish in the mornings while The Examiner published in the afternoons. With the growth of television in the 1940s, Chronicle Publishing Company decided to diversify into that medium by applying for a construction permit for a television station that would be operated alongside

156-640: The Chronicle . On November 5, 1949, CPC would sign on KRON-TV on VHF channel 4, which became the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) affiliate for the San Francisco Bay Area television market . This was much to the chagrin of NBC itself, which was a runner-up for the station and would desire KRON for the next half-century. In the 1950s, KRON would add an FM radio station ( KRON-FM , now under call sign KOIT) at 96.5 MHz. Further diversification into broadcasting came in 1975 when

182-554: The Telegram & Gazette being pared down into a " [Boston] Globe West" arose in Worcester while Hearst's purchase of the Chronicle led to the Examiner having to reinvent itself under its new local ownership as it struggled, and down the line was sold out to private equity publishers that reduced its operations considerably. The television properties became a strain on their new owners as

208-724: The 1970s, KAKE switched to a middle of the road (MOR) format of popular music, news and talk. KAKE was affiliated with the ABC Entertainment Network . In 1979, the TV station was sold to the Chronicle Publishing Company , parent company of the San Francisco Chronicle . While the TV station kept the KAKE-TV call sign , KAKE changed its call letters to KAKZ on February 1, 1980, flipped to adult contemporary , and

234-497: The Chronicle–LIN–Benedek deal pushed Benedek Broadcasting into bankruptcy with most of the company (including the former Chronicle) stations being purchased in 2002 by Gray Television . Young Broadcasting struggled in the years since purchasing KRON-TV, having sold four stations and pare down operations at KRON to keep afloat due to the heavy debt incurred by the massive purchase of the station. KRON itself also suffered due to

260-656: The KAKE Broadcasting Company, Inc., and aired a full service format. The station's original power, was only 250 watts and the studios were located at 416 West Douglas Avenue. The station was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System and later the Don Lee Network . In 1954, KAKE added a TV station, KAKE-TV . It eventually affiliated with ABC. The AM station got an increase to 1,000 watts by day, remaining at 250 watts at night. In

286-559: The KFH call sign from 1922 until 2004 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title KFH . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KFH&oldid=836777705 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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312-562: The action of a special stockholders' meeting in April 1995, in which Mrs. McEvoy was ousted from the Chronicle Publishing Company board and therefore from her position as chair. Although Mrs. McEvoy kept her 26.3% ownership share in the company's stock, which together with the 7% held by her son Nion McEvoy gave them a formidable one-third shareholder voting bloc if they chose to vote together, she no longer exerted direct control over

338-414: The coming decades, the Chronicle saw massive growth alongside that of San Francisco, weathering the 1880 assassination of Charles de Young in the Chronicle offices. In 1890, the company built the (Old) Chronicle Building , a ten-story building at Kearny and Market Streets that was at the time the tallest building in the western United States , as well as the first to use steel framing . That building

364-434: The de Young family, CPC was most notable for owning the namesake San Francisco Chronicle newspaper and KRON-TV , the longtime National Broadcasting Company (NBC) affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose) television media market . What would become Chronicle Publishing Company was formed on January 16, 1865, when teenage brothers Charles and Michael Henry "M. H." de Young published

390-687: The early 1990s, Chronicle Publishing launched the Bay TV cable network which was operated in conjunction with KRON and was seen on most cable systems in the Bay Area . In 1968, the Chronicle established its own book imprint in Chronicle Books , which would eventually become a successful publishing firm. The profits from Chronicle Books and the other new ventures of the company allowed the company to add to their print holdings as they purchased two newspapers, The Pantagraph of Bloomington, Illinois in 1980 and

416-535: The first edition of the Daily Dramatic Chronicle , a venture funded by a borrowed $ 20 gold piece. The paper began with a circulation of two thousand readers daily, which tripled within six months as the paper gained readership in the wake of its breaking the news of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to San Francisco. In September 1868, the paper changed its name to the Morning Chronicle . Over

442-585: The loss of its NBC affiliation to KNTV , and became a lower-profile news-heavy station holding an affiliation with MyNetworkTV , eventually consolidating their studios (though not ownership) within the building of their longtime rivals, ABC -owned KGO-TV . Young itself filed for bankruptcy in 2009, but emerged the next year; it sold itself to Media General in 2013, uniting it with WWLP. Nexstar Media Group purchased Media General in 2017, and KRON remains owned by that group. Twenty-four de Young family shareholders received at least $ 2 billion divided among them from

468-547: The management of The Chronicle or its editorial positions , and could not retain the clout she previously held in the disposition of Chronicle Publishing Company's assets, including The Chronicle . Over the latter half of 1999 into 2000, the units of the company were sold separately to different entities: With the exception of the Pantagraph and the book imprints, all of the former Chronicle Publishing assets have met some degree of criticism, misfortune, or both. Concerns about

494-509: The option to hear sports talk and play by play on either AM or FM. In early 2015, Entercom moved its Wichita radio stations to the Ruffin Building at 9111 East Douglas. It was formerly the Pizza Hut corporate headquarters. KFH gave up its 50,000 watt FM simulcast on October 12, 2016, as KFH-FM became KNSS-FM , simulcasting the talk programming on KNSS. Entercom moved KFH's programming to

520-820: The sale of KRON-FM to Bonneville International allowed CPC to purchase the Meredith Corporation 's WOWT-TV in Omaha, Nebraska . This was followed in 1979 with the purchase of KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas and in 1987 when independently owned KLBY in Colby, Kansas was purchased to increase KAKE's reach. Outside the broadcast realm, Chronicle Publishing owned cable systems in California , Hawaiʻi , and New Mexico for several years under their Western Communications unit before those systems were sold to Tele-Communications Inc. in 1995. In

546-526: The sale of the San Francisco Chronicle would take place " over [her] dead body ", and was widely quoted. However, with the growing consolidation of print and broadcast media in the 1990s, the other shareholding heirs of the de Young family decided to sell the assets of CPC in 1999 when the consolidation trend in the United States was at its peak. The movement to sell was partly facilitated by

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572-564: The station became all-talk as KNSS, adding shows from the ABC Talk Radio Network and NBC Talknet . KNSS would change ownership in the 1990s; Prism Radio bought KNSS in 1993, followed by SFX Broadcasting in 1997. In 2000, Entercom acquired both KNSS and another AM station in Wichita, KFH. On August 30, 2004, KFH moved from AM 1330 to AM 1240; concurrently, the KNSS call sign and format moved from AM 1240 to AM 1330. The reason for this

598-402: The syndicated Jim Rome Show in middays. KFH carries Kansas City Royals baseball and Kansas City Chiefs football . It also airs University of Kansas Jayhawks football and men's basketball games (even calling itself at one point "Kansas Fan Headquarters"). (For the history of the 1330 frequency, see KNSS ) On October 28, 1947, the station signed on the air as KAKE, owned by

624-513: Was signal strength; 1330 has a better signal, at 5,000 watts, while 1240 broadcast at 1,000 watts full time. After the frequency swap, KFH continued with a hot talk format, carrying shows such as Don & Mike and Loveline . It shifted back to a more mainstream talk format in 2006. On May 9, 2011, KFH changed its format to all-sports , affiliating with ESPN Radio . Programming was also simulcast on 98.7 FM, also owned by Entercom. It switched its call sign to KFH-FM, giving sports listeners

650-430: Was sold to Misco Broadcasting Company. KAKZ would change to adult standards on September 24, 1981, return to adult contemporary on March 19, 1984, and then flipped to news/talk on October 1, 1984. New West bought KAKZ in 1985; on October 1 of that year, KAKZ changed call letters to KRZZ, flipped back to adult contemporary, and began simulcasting on KRZZ-FM (then at 95.9 FM, now at 96.3 FM). On September 14, 1987,

676-411: Was superseded by the final company headquarters, still used by the Chronicle , which were built in 1924 at Fifth and Mission Streets. With the diversification of interests in the 1960s, the corporation owning the Chronicle was spun off into its own unit as Chronicle Publishing to signify a diversification of its interests outside of San Francisco. The second century of the company began in 1965 with

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