{"id":249312,"date":"2026-04-14T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249312\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:48:09","slug":"longterm-status-of-dark-kkam-lubbock-unknown-talkers-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249312\/","title":{"rendered":"Longterm Status of Dark KKAM, Lubbock Unknown \u2013 TALKERS magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the first of this month, Townsquare Media requested permission from the FCC to turn off the transmitter on news\/talk KKAM-AM, Lubbock due to economic conditions in the market. The company\u2019s filing with the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1009115\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-14-at-10.24.39-AM.png\" alt=\"img\" width=\"253\" height=\"81\"\/> Commission states in part, \u201cDue to economic conditions in the market, the licensee was forced to take the station off the air temporarily. The licensee respectfully requests special temporary authority for the station to remain silent. The licensee will promptly notify the Commission when it is able to resume station operations.\u201d Townsquare also operates news\/talk KFYO in the Lubbock market. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/gone-now-texas-radio-station-181527657.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See the Yahoo piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Share this with your network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the first of this month, Townsquare Media requested permission from the FCC to turn off the transmitter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-249312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}