KSMM-FM (101.5

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to serve the community of

Liberal, Kansas Liberal is a city in and the county seat of Seward County, Kansas, United States. As of 2024, the population of the city was 18,743. It is located in southwestern Kansas, along U.S. Route 54 highway, near the Kansas-Oklahoma state line. Lib ...

, United States. The station is owned by Rocking M Media, LLC. It airs a

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music format. The station was assigned the call sign KSLS by the

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. In the 1980s, under that call sign, it was part of the "LS Network" of Kansas radio entrepreneur

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. The station changed its call sign to KSMM-FM on February 15, 2008.

References

External links

Official website
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