KNCK-FM
KNCK AM and FM
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| City | Concordia, Kansas |
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| Broadcast area |
Concordia, Kansas Belleville, Kansas Minneapolis, Kansas Beloit, Kansas |
| Branding | The New NCK 94-9 |
| Frequency | 94.9 MHz |
| First air date | 1979 |
| Format | Hot Adult Contemporary |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 161 meters (528 feet) |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 35209 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°26′19.0″N 97°42′16.0″W / 39.438611°N 97.704444°W |
| Callsign meaning | K North Central Kansas |
| Affiliations | ABC Radio |
| Owner | KNCK, Inc. |
| Sister stations | KNCK |
KNCK-FM (94.9 FM, "The New NCK 94-9") is a Hot Adult Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Concordia, Kansas, and serving the communities of Concordia, Belleville, Minneapolis, and Beloit, Kansas, as well as North Central Kansas and South Central Nebraska. The station formerly carried most of its programming from ABC Radio's "Young AC" Network, until the station went to a more local presentation in 2010.
KNCK-FM is owned and operated by KNCK, Inc. General Broadcasting Co. Inc. transferred the license for this radio station to KNCK Inc. on November 1, 1989.
KNCK-FM was the first licensed FM broadcast station in North Central Kansas. It was originally licensed in 1979 as KCKS-FM to General Broadcasting Company, owned (mostly) by William F. Danenbarger, a former reporter and bureau manager for United Press International (UPI). The station license permitted broadcast at an Effective Radiated Power of 3,000 watts on 95.3 MHz (channel 237A). The original antenna was situated atop the sister station's approximately 200-foot tower in the station's back yard. In 2010, the station changed call signs to KNCK, matching its AM sister station, and meaning "North Central Kansas", its primary service area.
In 1980, a tornado destroyed the tower used by KNCK-AM and KCKS-FM. The station's General Manager and Chief Engineer, Wendell Wilson, was able to put the AM station back on the air using a low-power transmitter and modified antenna mounted to the side of the studio building but the FM station was off the air until construction of the new tower was complete. The original tower was painted red and white and had aviation warning lights but recent erection of a nearby (and much taller) tower for the local cable system removed this requirement for the KNCK/KCKS tower. For this reason, the new tower remained steel grey.
North Central Kansas native Joe Jindra started working at KNCK while still in high school and spent his life working in radio across the country in Kansas, Missouri, and Arizona. He returned to Concordia in 1989 and purchased the stations from General Broadcasting Company. Under Jindra's ownership, the station increased its power, initially to 6,000 watts, and ultimately to 100,000 watts. Increase of power to 100,000 watts required the station to purchase a new transmitter, change frequency from 95.3 MHz, a "class A" channel (limited to 6,000 watts), to 94.9 MHz, a "class C1" channel, and move to a new tower, 528 feet tall. Mr. Jindra currently owns and manages the stations.
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