KUSH

KUSH 1600 AM is a radio station licensed to Cushing, Oklahoma. The station broadcasts a Full-service format, consisting of local and national talk, sports, and a music format consisting of Americana, country, Texas, and local Oklahoma music with a progressive element in overnights.^[2]

Frequency1600 kHz

FormatFull-service

Owner

• Richard Sellers
• (Oil Patch Radio, Inc.)

First air date

1953 (1953)

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KUSH

Cushing, Oklahoma United States
Frequency	1600 kHz
Programming
Format	Full-service
Ownership
Owner	Richard Sellers (Oil Patch Radio, Inc.)
History
First air date	1953 (1953)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	11201
Class	D
Power	5,000 watts (day) 70 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates	35.98639°N 96.71028°W / 35.98639; -96.71028
Translator	101.5 K268DK (Cushing)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	1600kush.com

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KUSH is owned by Richard Sellers, through licensee Oil Patch Radio, Inc. As of 2022, Molly Payne is the general manager. With the station since 1998, Hugh Foley is the program director, music director, sports director, and producer of Native Air. Former on-air talents include the late Sean Kelly and Colton Cravens, who went on to found Oklahoma Tornado Database. Aaron Kelly, Bruce Vogt, Mary Kelly, Tyler Sneed, the late Brian McBrayer, Sally Wright, Ron Godfried, Donna Judd-Hodges, Nokose Foley, and Joyce Abrams rounded out the team over a period from 2013 to 2016. Cravens and Sneed provided the backbone for Cushing and University of Tulsa programming after owner Sean Kelly was killed in a late January 2014 wreck.

Cravens, as athletic/sports director and director of iTV operations, went on to grow into a marketing professional and was integral in helping upgrade the station's equipment and evolving its CityLinkTV affiliates, with successful expansion into Drumright which Kelly had acquired media rights to (along with Stroud) in 2012. When Cravens left, University of Tulsa affiliation ended after a long run as Sellers made the decision to drop from the Golden Hurricane network. The stations expansion onto FM has had some issues with signal but is still viewed as a positive for Oilpatch and KUSH. Sellers died early on the morning of January 13, 2023, 18 days prior to the 10th Anniversary of Kelly's death after a brief struggle to survive the wreck.

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