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| Broadcast area | Southern Colorado |
| Frequency | 590kHz |
| Branding | NewsTalk 590 KCSJ |
| Programming | |
| Format | News/talk |
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| KBPL,KCCY-FM,KIBT,KKLI,KPHT,KUBE,KVUU | |
| History | |
First air date | August1947 |
Call sign meaning | Chieftain-Star Journal (newspaper, former owner) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 53846 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 1,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°21′30″N104°38′13″W / 38.35833°N 104.63694°W /38.35833; -104.63694 |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | 590kcsj |
KCSJ (590AM) is acommercial radio stationlicensed toPueblo, Colorado, and servingSouthern Colorado. The station is owned byiHeartMedia with the license held by iHM Licenses, LLC. It airs anews/talkradio format. The studios and offices are on West 24th Street in Pueblo and thetransmitter is off Quartz Street inPueblo West, Colorado. KCSJ broadcasts with 1,000 watts around the clock, using adirectional antenna.[2]
KCSJ carries mostlynationally syndicated shows from co-ownedPremiere Networks:The Glenn Beck Radio Program,The Sean Hannity Show,The Joe Pags Show,The Jesse Kelly Show,Coast to Coast AM withGeorge Noory andThis Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. FromKHOW inDenver, Dan Caplis is heard in afternoondrive time.
Weekends feature shows on money, health, guns, home repair and technology. Syndicated weekend programs includeThe Kim Komando Show,At Home with Gary Sullivan,The Weekend with Michael Brown,Tom Gresham's Gun Talk,The Ben Ferguson Show andSunday Night with Bill Cunningham. Most hours begin with an update from iHeart's "24/7 News".
The station firstsigned on the air in August 1947. It has kept the samecall sign over its long history.[3] KCSJ was owned by the local daily newspaper, theChieftain-Star Journal (nowThe Pueblo Chieftain). The station still carries the call letters which refer to the newspaper. In its early years, it was anetwork affiliate of theMutual Broadcasting System. Its studios were on West 5th Street in Pueblo.[4]
Later it was bought by American Media and today is owned by iHeartMedia. Through the 1960s and 1970s, it playedmiddle of the road music (MOR) as well as airing news, farm reports and sports. In the 1980s and 1990s, it moved to afull serviceadult contemporary format coupled with talk shows and news, transitioning to all talk and news by 2000.
Before its dependence on syndicated programming, KCSJ was once home to Cliff Hendrix and Rich Goodwin (convicted of the contract killing of his business partner Tom Turcotte in 1977).
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