| Broadcast area | Salt Lake City,Ogden,Provo, Utah |
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| Frequency | 1060kHz |
| Branding | RADIO 1060 AM "LA MEJOR" ! |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KXLI,KADD | |
| History | |
First air date | September 2,1967 (as KRSP) |
Former call signs | KRSP (1967–1990) KKDS (1990–2004) |
Call sign meaning | K-Dial (as in radio dial) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 27458 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 10,000watts day 149 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°32′8″N112°4′38″W / 40.53556°N 112.07722°W /40.53556; -112.07722 |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
KDYL (1060kHz) is anAMradio station licensed toSouth Salt Lake, Utah broadcasting aSpanish Variety format. The station is owned by Eric Palacios, through licensee Radio Activo 3 LLC.
The station broadcasts with 10,000watts by day. BecauseAM 1060 is aclear channel frequency, after sunset KDYL must reduce power to 149 watts so it does not interfere withClass A stationsXEEP, located nearMexico City, andKYW inPhiladelphia. Thetransmitter is located off Bacchus Highway nearLark, Utah.[2]
The station began broadcasting on September 2, 1967 asKRSP.[3] Until the mid-1980s, the station aired acontemporary hitsformat,simulcast with itsFMsister stationKRSP-FM.[4][5][6] By 1986, the station had begun airing separate programming from KRSP-FM, carrying anoldies format, playing music from the '50s and '60s. The station was branded "Utah's Oldies Station".[7][8]
On September 24, 1990, the station changed its call sign toKKDS.[9] It began broadcasting achildren's radio format branded "The Imagination Station", with programming from theOrlando-based "Kids' Choice Broadcasting Network."[10][11] KKDS was the first radio station aimed at children in the nation.[11] The station lateraffiliated with the children's networkRadio AAHS.[12]
On November 12, 1997 the Radio AAHS affiliation ended, and the station began airing anadult contemporary andoldies format branded "All American Classics".[12] By 2000, the station's format had changed toAdult Standards.[13] In 2004, Holiday Broadcasting Co filed for the call signKDYL, which had previously been held byAM 1280 while that station aired an Adult Standards format.[14] On February 2, 2004, the station's call sign was changed to KDYL.[9] In June 2005, KDYL began broadcasting theJones Radio Networks' "Music of Your Life" Adult Standards format.[15] Later, the station carried asyndicated Adult Standards format fromWestwood One.[15]
On January 1, 2008, the station switched to an oldies format known as "Real Oldies" with live and local personalities, spotlighting hits from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s.[16] The change put the station in competition with another local oldies radio station 860KKAT, which, at the time airedScott Shannon'sTrue Oldies Channel, although, unlike the True Oldies Channel, KDYL's playlist included only a small amount of post-1970 music. KKAT would eventually change formats, making KDYL the only pre-1970 oldies station in the Salt Lake metro area.
On March 4, 2013, KDYL changed formats to music, talk and news in Mandarin and English, with programming from China Radio International[17] after Mountain View Broadcast began operating the station under atime brokerage agreement.[18][19] In 2015, Mountain View Broadcast purchased the station from Holiday Broadcasting Co. for $712,000, which included $525,000 it had paid in brokerage fees over the previous two years.[18][20]
On December 1, 2017, KDYL changed formats to music, talk and news in South Asian and English from Radio Desi USA, after SSS Broadcasting LLC began operating the station under atime brokerage agreement.
On January 1, 2019, KDYL began simulcasting Radio Unica, KFUR-LP 101.1, St. George, UT under atime brokerage agreement.[21] The Radio Unica programming ended on January 1, 2020, after which KDYL broadcast soft rock classics, new age music, and classic hits for a short period of time. On April 23, 2020, KDYL went silent.[22] On November 18, 2020, an application for assignment of license was submitted to the FCC for approval after KDYL was sold.[23] According to the asset purchase agreement filed with the FCC, the sale price for KDYL is $50,000. On January 8, 2021, the application for assignment of license was approved by the FCC.[24] The sale of KDYL was consummated on April 9, 2021, and the license was voluntarily reassigned from Mountain View Broadcast, LLC, to Radio Activo 3, LLC.[25] The assignment of license was granted by the FCC on April 11, 2021.[26] On June 18, 2021, KDYL returned to the air, and is currentlystunting (broadcasting) with a mixture of automated lite rock music and Spanish pop music. According to a recent post in a Utah radio discussion group, the station's new owner plans to air a Spanish language format on KDYL in the near future.[27] On June 21, 2021, KDYL went silent again after testing over the Juneteenth weekend. As of February 25, 2022, KDYL remains off the air due to technical problems with the station's transmitter.[28] However, there have been several reports of KDYL periodically testing its transmitter since November 12, 2021.[29] On March 10, 2022, KDYL returned to the air with a Spanish language format. The station went silent again at the end of March 2022 because of lightning damage to transmitter power supplies, and it remains off the air as of May 5, 2022. On May 27, 2022, KDYL began broadcasting aRegional Mexican format branded as "Radio Unica 1060".[30]
The sale of KDYL was consummated on April 9, 2021, and the license was voluntarily reassigned from Mountain View Broadcast, LLC, to Radio Activo 3 LLC. The assignment of license was granted by the FCC on April 11, 2021. New owner kept the Radio Unica staff and rebranded it as RADIO 1060 AM "LA MEJOR"! with a Spanish Variety Format.