KSYL (970
AM) is an American
radio station
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broadcasting a
News Talk Information
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format. Licensed to
Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat and largest city of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River of the South, Red River ...
, United States, the station is currently owned by Cenla Broadcasting. Its studios and transmitter are located separately in Alexandria.
The station was founded by the late Sylvan Robert Fox,
not the
Sylvan Fox
Sylvan Fox (June 2, 1928 – December 22, 2007) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize. He worked as a reporter in upstate New York (state), New York before he came to the New York City-based ''World-Telegram'' newspaper. He wrote one ...
associated with ''
Newsday
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'', a newspaper on
Long Island
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. The KSYL callsign was inspired by Fox's first name.
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Radio stations in Louisiana
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1962
Mass media in Alexandria, Louisiana
1962 establishments in Louisiana
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