KSL
Originally designated with the call letters KZN, KSL began life as the radio arm of the Deseret News. The station's first broadcast came on May 6, 1922.
In 1924, it changed its calls to KFPT, and adopted its current calls, KSL, in 1925. A series of power boosts over the next decade brought the station to its current 50,000 watts in 1932. It spent time at several frequencies over the years before settling at 1160 in 1941. It can be heard across much of the country west of the Mississippi River at night.
In 1932 KSL joined the CBS Radio Network. It remained with CBS until 2005. The station also spawned KSL-TV in 1949. Its most famous program -- Music & the Spoken Word with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (the oldest series in nationwide network broadcasting), continues to originate from KSL and to be distributed by CBS Radio to this day. |
