KQAM

On October 7, 1936, the station signed on the air as KANS, representing the word Kansas. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was owned by Swanco Broadcasting. Its call sign was KLEO, and for many years, was a popular Top 40 station. On September 2, 1980, KLEO flipped to adult contemporary as KWKN.^[3][4] On March 8, 1982, KWKN flipped to a simulcast of its then-FM sister station KGCS-FM, which aired a country format.^[5] On October 21, 1982, after being purchased by Jack Sampson, owner of Hutchinson radio station KSKU, the KLEO call letters returned, as well as the adult contemporary format.^[6] The station flipped to MOR/adult standards on September 24, 1984.^[7][8] On October 5, 1989, KLEO flipped to traditional country as KZSN, complementing sister station KZSN-FM's contemporary country format.^[9] KZSN would eventually give way to a simulcast with the FM station; this lasted until September 25, 1997, when it assumed KQAM's call letters and flipped to sports talk.^[10]

In 2002, the station was sold to The Walt Disney Company from Entercom for $2 million.^[11] With the sale, KQAM became Wichita's Radio Disney network affiliate on July 23, 2002.^{[12][13][14][15]}

On November 12, 2009, Disney/ABC announced that they would sell KQAM to Steckline Communications. According to Greg Steckline, the owner of the company, he wasn't aiming to purchase but "this one just kind of happened. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time." Steckline paid $350,000 for KQAM. On January 6, 2010, KQAM dropped Radio Disney, unveiling the lineup for its talk format as a companion to its sister station, sports radio KGSO.

Steckline Communications also owns KIUL (Garden City, Kansas), KYUL (Scott City, Kansas), and KGYN (Guymon, Oklahoma).^[16]

KQAM began simulcasting on translator K273CX (102.5 FM) in October 2016. The simulcast would be dropped in May 2022, when the translator began simulcasting recently acquired sister station KHLT-FM's HD2 sub-channel.

• Facility details for Facility ID 61362 (KQAM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KQAM in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
• "History Cards for KQAM (KANS/KLEO/KWKN covering 1936-1980)". Federal Communications Commission. (Guide to reading History Cards)

37°44′21″N 97°16′14″W / 37.73917°N 97.27056°W / 37.73917; -97.27056