KEJO (1240 AM, "1240 Joe Radio") is a

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, airing a

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. It is owned by Bicoastal Media with the

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held by Bicoastal Media Licenses V, LLC. The studios are on Marion Street SE in Albany. KEJO is powered at 1,000

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s, using a

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. Programming is also heard on 14-watt

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K229DI at 93.7

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Programming

Sports talk

KEJO carries national sports shows from

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and the

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. Local and regional weekday programs on KEJO include ''Joe Beaver Show'' with the

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radio voices, Mike Parker & Jon Warren. Popular national sports shows on weekdays include ''

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'' hosted by Dan Patrick and ''

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'' hosted by

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Live sports events

KEJO airs local

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games plus

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, and

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as part of the Beaver Sports Radio Network. Beginning with the 2009 season, KEJO is the broadcast home of the

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, a

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team. During the

season, KEJO is also an

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of the Seattle Mariners Radio Network.

History

KCOV

The Midland Broadcasting Company was granted a

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in 1953 to build a new AM radio station broadcasting with 250

s of power on a frequency of 1240

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. The stations

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the air in . The original

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was KCOV. Donald McCormick served as president of Midland Broadcasting and Frank Flynn as the general manager of the station.

KFLY

Dave Hoss acquired control of Midland Broadcasting in late February 1958. He applied to the FCC for new call letters for the station and was granted KFLY. Radio Broadcasters, Inc., acquired KFLY in January 1963. The

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granted KFLY authorization a few months later to increase its daytime signal strength to 1,000 watts while maintaining the nighttime signal power of 250 watts. In October 1966, KFLY-FM (101.5 FM) was launched as an FM

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ing duplicating a portion of the AM station's programming and extending its effective coverage area. KFLY-FM later switched to a separate format of

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and

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. Ted Jackson's Radio Corvallis, Inc., bought KFLY in March 1971. The station aired a

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music format throughout the 1970s. It carried news from the ABC Contempoary Radio Network. KFLY was acquired by the Madgekal Broadcasting Company in August 1977 and the Top 40 format was maintained.

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, the owner of Madgekal Broadcasting, also owned the local

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bottling plant.

KEJO

After more than 35 years of broadcasting as KFLY, the station was assigned the current KEJO call letters by the FCC on January 31, 1994. Pastega chose the new call sign as a tribute to his daughter, Emily Jo, who died as a young adult. In June 1999, Madgekal Broadcasting, Inc., reached an agreement to sell this station to

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. The deal was approved by the FCC on August 24, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on September 1, 1999. After Jacor's merger with

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was completed, the company made application with the FCC in December 2000 to transfer the broadcast license for KEJO to Clear Channel subsidiary Citicasters Licenses, Inc. The transfer was approved by the FCC on January 4, 2001, and the transaction was consummated on June 5, 2001. KEJO was granted a

to upgrade to 1,000

operation both day and night in November 2001. The station received its license to cover this change on September 25, 2003.

Sale to Bicoastal Media

In May 2007, Clear Channel Communications, through its Citicasters Licenses, LP, subsidiary, announced an agreement to sell this station to Bicoastal Media subsidiary Bicoastal Willamette Valley, LLC. It was part of a 14-station deal valued at $37 million. The sale was approved by the FCC on July 2, 2007, and the transaction was consummated on October 1, 2007. As part of an internal corporate reorganization in October 2007, Bicoastal Willamette Valley, LLC, applied to transfer the broadcast license for KEJO to Bicoastal Media Licenses V, LLC. The transfer was approved by the FCC on October 29, 2007.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for KEJOKEJO official website
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