KMJM (1360 AM) is a

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licensed to serve

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. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and licensed to iHM Licenses, LLC. It airs an

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music format including Cedar Rapids Roughriders hockey, Coe College football, and serves as an overflow station for

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men's and women's basketball when games conflict with another Hawkeye event airing on sister station WMT.

History

The Cedar Rapids allocation for 1360 AM signed on in 1961, alongside its FM sister station at 98.1 FM, both taking on the call letters KHAK. Both stations formatted

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

—although not exclusively until sometime later in the 1960s—and for many years, the AM signal was duplicated on the FM frequency. On March 6, 1995, KHAK changed its format to

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as KTOF, and was a simulcast of KWOF in

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. On December 19,

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, the station switched call signs to the current KMJM and began airing a

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format of "American music classics" from the 1930s and 1940s. KMJM would later flip to

sports talk Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comed ...

as "1360 The Fan". On January 11, 2010, KMJM changed its format to classic country. On October 10, 2017, KMJM flipped to

adult standards Adult standards (also sometimes known as the nostalgia or Big Band format) is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations. Adult standards started in the 1950s and is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly tho ...

, branded as "Leo 1360". The station had been airing one adult standards-nostalgia based program in the past, "Jim Doyne's Musical Memories", airing at noon Sundays, prior to the format switch. Every year during the first week of November, KMJM drops its regular format and plays

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. On May 4, 2020, at midnight, KMJM changed their format to oldies, while retaining the "Leo 1360" moniker. Cedar Rapids Station Flips to Oldies
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References

External links

KMJM official website
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