1550 AM KRKY used to be on the air in Winfield, Kansas. That's about all I know. Various Broadcasting Yearbooks from the 1970s through the 2000s list AM 1550 as having multiple other call letters (KNIC, KVFW, KKLE) but I haven't been able to pinpoint when KRKY existed or their format. If you happen to know, leave a comment. I don't really feel like looking through every Yearbook trying to find out. There's a coupon for Ken's Pizza on the back if that helps any Winfieldians who happen to read this--no expiration date unfortunately.
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That's a good question. I did look through the journals (worldradiohistory.com has a really neat search feature) and while I do find plenty of history for the current KKLE going all the way back to when it signed on as KNIC, I can't find anything that links it with the KRKY callsign.
Granted, it was a quick search, but a search on the best site I could think of. There is a KRKY-AM in Grandy, Colorado ("Ski Country") which has carried the callsign since March of 1988. KKLE had just switched to that callsign from KVFW a month earlier, in February of that same year.
KKLE operated as KINC from it's launch on August 10, 1963 until February 1, 1988. It would operate as KVFW for a little over 3 years until August 2, 1991 when it changed it's callsign to KKLE.
According to fccdata.org, multiple stations have carried the KRKY callsign, but only one on AM and none in Winfield.
You got yourself a real headscratcher of a mystery (channeled Flanders there) on your hands here.
Thanks for your efforts in trying to figure this out! I suppose it's possible they printed these up before an expected call letter change took place which then got nixed....or something. For now it remains a mystery...
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