Broadcast area | Luverne-Rock Rapids |
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Frequency | 800 kHz |
Branding | KQAD AM 800 |
Programming | |
Format | Soft AC |
Affiliations | ABC News Radio |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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KLQL | |
History | |
First air date | March 1, 1971 |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 39259 |
Class | D |
Power | 500 watts day 80 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°39′1.00″N 96°10′19.00″W / 43.6502778°N 96.1719444°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | k101fm.com |
KQAD (800 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Soft AC format. Licensed to Luverne, Minnesota, United States, the station serves the Luverne and Rock Rapids areas. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media out of Portland, Oregon.[1] The station play lite hits from the 1960s to the present. Max Hodgdon hosts the morning show, Matt D is the afternoon host and Jay Kelly is on evenings. The station covers local news from Luverne and Rock Rapids, and covers Luverne Cardinal High School sports.
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This is Louis. He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with a disproportionate number of other people… also named Louis. We’re unconsciously attracted to people, places and things that resemble ourselves. And it affects our life in some pretty bizarre ways. In one study, researchers analysed the public records of 66 million Americans and found that people are disproportionately likely to live in places whose names resemble their own. Just like St. Louis and it’s Louises, Jacksonville is inhabited by more Jacks, Philadelphia by Philips, and Virginia Beach by Virginias. While some gravitate towards these places, it’s also possible that parents living in Georgia are more likely to name their children George or Georgia. The researchers also found people are more likely to live in cities whose names began with their birthday numbers. If you were born on the second of the month, you’d live in Two Harbors, Minnesota. The third? Three Oaks, Michigan. And people were more likely to choose careers whose labels resemble their names. Dennis or Denise are overrepresented among dentists; Laurie, Lauren and Lawrence among lawyers. The researchers called this effect of unconscious self-love “Implicit Egotism”. And it doesn’t stop there. A recent study of undergraduate students found when you work in a group, sharing initials with other members of the group increases the overall quality of your group work. Bizarrely, the study was authored by three researchers by the names of Polman, Pollmann and Poehlman. They suggest this is caused by the “Name-letter effect”, where we have a preference for the letters in our names. We write our name thousands of times throughout our life, so the more we are merely exposed to something–like those letters–the more we like it. Also known as the “Mere exposure effect.” One study in the 1980s showed people more often ranked letters belonging to their name as their most preferred letters of the alphabet. And they found this Name-letter effect across 12 different European languages. Some of the findings - like more Louises living in St Louis - seem counterintuitive, but they are supported by a lot of data, like analysing birth, marriage and death records. So when Angela moves to Los Angeles or Phillip buys a Phillips television, there may be some implicit egotism involved. And, finally, there’s a scientific explanation about why susie sells sea shells by the sea shore. If you don't already, check out my Twitter and tumblr for cool facts and episode updates. And subscribe to Braincraft for a new brainy episode every Thursday!
Founding and early history
In the late 1960s well-known local newspaperman, Al McIntosh, became aware of an application pending at the FCC to locate an AM radio station in Luverne. This application was initiated by the owner of a radio station in York, Nebraska, so McIntosh convinced four other local businessmen, Mort Skewes, Warren Schoon, Rollie Swanson, and Dominic Lippi, to join forces and submit a competing application to the FCC. These two applications were mutually exclusive, and sat in the hands of the FCC for upwards of two years before local stakeholders accelerated the process.[2] In the spring of 1968, Paul Hedberg, an experienced owner of another radio station in southern Minnesota, joined the five businessmen from Luverne, and together they entered negotiations with their competitor to withdraw his application with the FCC. Soon thereafter the FCC granted the six-member ownership group, now organized as Siouxland Broadcasting, the construction permit for KQAD.[3] At its inception KQAD broadcast a pop music format, and was affiliated with the ABC Radio Network.[4]
Six months after the debut of KQAD, its sister station KQAD-FM went on the air. KQAD-FM is now known as KLQL.[5]
References
- ^ "KQAD Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ Paul C. Hedberg, The Time of My Life (Spirit Lake, IA: University of Okoboji Press, 2014), 97.
- ^ Hedberg, The Time of My Life, 98-99.
- ^ Hedberg, The Time of My Life, 100.
- ^ Hedberg, The Time of My Life, 99.
External links
- KQAD in the FCC AM station database
- KQAD in Nielsen Audio's AM station database