KINY
Broadcast area
Branding
Hometown Radio 800 and 94.9 KINY
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
May 31, 1935
Call sign meaning
Randomly issued by the FCC[1]
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
823
B
Transmitter coordinates
58°18′3.55″N 134°26′33.02″W / 58.3009861°N 134.4425056°W / 58.3009861; -134.4425056
Links
Public license information
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KINY (800 AM) is a radio station licensed to Juneau, Alaska, serving southeast Alaska. Owned by Local First Media Group., it broadcasts a classic hits format.
KINY began broadcasting on May 31, 1935, at 7:30 p.m.[3] It was located in the Goldstein Building until 1939, when the building was destroyed by fire on February 8, 1939.[4] The Decker Building in downtown Juneau then served as KINY's headquarters for decades. The station moved into the building on October 28, 1940.[5] The Decker Building burned down in June 1984.[6]
KINY and its sister station KSUP were bought by Alaska Broadcast Communications in June 2008.[7][8]
In October 2022, KINY, sister stations KSUP and KXXJ, and eight translators were sold to Cliff Dumas' Local First Media Group for $1.3 million.[9] After the sale, the station began to back away from its previous full service positioning in 2024, with Dumas stating that he wanted the station to have a "stronger musical identity". This resulted in the cancellation of its long-running call-in show Problem Corner (which was converted to a podcast), and the layoffs of its two full-time news reporters in May 2024.[9][10] Most of the station's online news content now consisted primarily of wire stories, press releases, and articles created with generative AI.[11]
Notable regular syndicated broadcasts include:
KINY carries news from ABC Radio News and live sports from the Seattle Mariners and the Seattle Seahawks.
In addition to the main station, KINY has an additional five translators to widen its broadcast area.
Broadcast translators for KINY
FCC info
K280DX
103.9 FM
821
K279AF
103.7 FM
82616
K280ED
103.9 FM
777
K235DA
94.9 FM
202194
K278GE
103.5 FM
32949
K284AM
104.7 FM
137761
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