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| Broadcast area | Kansas City Metropolitan Area |
| Frequency | 1510kHz |
| Branding | ESPN Kansas City 1510 AM and 94.5 FM |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports |
| Affiliations | |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Union Broadcasting |
| WHB | |
| History | |
First air date | 1947 (1947) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | Kansas City's Team |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 64637 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 10,000 watts (days only) |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°4′14″N94°26′58″W / 39.07056°N 94.44944°W /39.07056; -94.44944 |
| Translator | 94.5 K233DM (Raytown) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | 1510.com |
KCTE (1510AM) is a commercialradio station licensed toIndependence, Missouri, United States, and serving theKansas City metropolitan area operates during the daytime hours only.[2] Owned by Union Broadcasting, it features asports radio format in conjunction with co-ownedWHB. The studios are on West 121st Street inOverland Park.
KCTE's transmitter is sited off of Appleton Avenue at East 28th Street. Programming is heard around the clock on low-powerFM translator K233DM on 94.5MHz.
The stationsigned on the air in 1947.[3] The originalcall sign was KIMO, originally broadcasting with 250 watts on 1010kilocycles. It has always been a daytime-only station. It later moved to 1510 kHz.
It was acquired in 1962 by Richard Bott and became the first of manyChristian radio stations in hisBott Radio Network.[4] The call letters were changed to KCCV (Kansas City's Christian Voice). In 1990, Bott it moved to a new frequency licensed for 24-hour broadcasting. Over the next several years, 1510 playedrhythm and blues,oldies and lateradult standards.
In 1994, new owners acquired the station and debuted KCTE (Spelling KC-Team), Kansas City's first sports talk station.[5] Throughout the 1990s, KCTE grew in popularity, yet was constrained by the daytime-only operation. With the aid of Union Bank president Jerry Green, KCTE purchased the 50,000-wattWHB and moved its sports operations onto the 810 frequency on October 1, 1999.[6][7][8]
After stints as aLatin music and later analternative rock station (playing a repeating two-hour tape loop), aHot Talk format debuted in 2001. KCTE's programming includedDon Imus's morning show,Dennis Miller's talk show, and local shows hosted by personalities fromKMBC-TV. The station also carried a large portion of ESPN Radio programming until that moved to sister station 97.3KCXM.[9] In 2007, KCXM was sold to a Christian broadcaster.[10] ESPN network shows returned to 1510 KCTE, which resumed full-time sports programming.[11]
Union Broadcasting is retaining the original 1510 KCTE signal, which currently airs a Hot Talk/ESPN format after stints as Alternative and Latin music.