1400 AM, Lincoln

Through the Years

• 1947

  August 15, 1947-  Station signs on.  Mutual Network affiliate.

  Sold nationally as a packaged network with co-owned KBON, Omaha and KORN, Fremont, NE.

• 1949

  August 4, 19490  Inland Broadcasting seeks television license for channel 12 to be KOLN TV.

• 1952

  September, 1952-  Station is sold to Cornhusker Radio & TV (James Stuart) for $43,000.  Inland turns their attention to seeking Omaha television Channel 7.

  Cornhusker Radio and TV granted Channel 12 for KOLN-TV using their AM tower.

• 1953

  February 17, 1953- KOLN TV Channel 12 signs on as an affiliate of the DuMont network.

  July, 1953-Cornhusker Radio & TV sells the AM and TV to Fetzer Broadcasting (John E. Fetzer) for $650,000 including $120,000 in liabilities and $175,000 in long term debt.  (Cornhusker reported a loss of $113,000 for the first half of 1953).  AM studios move to 40th and W Streets in Lincoln, joining co-owned KOLN-TV

• 1954

  February, 1954- Fetzer is approved to buy KFOR-TV Channel 10 from Cornbelt Broadcasting for $300,000, conditioned on the disposal of Channel 12, and will move the KOLN-TV call letters to Channel 10.

  March, 1954- Fetzer to sell Channel 12 to the University of Nebraska for $100,000, transmitter and equipment only.

  August, 1954- KOLN-TV transfer to Byron Dunn, trustee, with eventual operation by the University of Nebraska.

• 1955

  June, 1955- KOLN AM sold to Robert W. Frudger (Galesburg, IL) for $120,000.   Call letters are changed to KLIN and studios move to 410 Sharp Building, Lincoln, NE.

• 1956

  December, 1956- KLIN is sold to Fletcher-Mitchell Corporation (Jonathan M. Fletcher, James I Mitchell) for $190,000.

• 1964

  KLIN is sold to Shurtleff-Schorr Broadcasting (Paul C. Shurtleff & Donald C. Schorr) for $415,000.  Daytime power is increased from 250 watts to 1,000 watts.  An application is filed for KLIN FM 107.3.

• 1968

  KLIN FM signs on at 107.3 with 100,000 watts at 165 feet.

• 1971

  September, 1971-  Station is sold to KLIN Inc. (Norton and Diana Warner) for $800,000 including the FM.

• 1976

  Studios and offices move to 4343 O Street, known as The Broadcast House.

• 2000

  May, 2000-  Sold to Triad Broadcasting (David Benjamin). Greg Wells, General Manager.

• 2007

  August, 2007-  Stations are sold to NRG Media.

• 2012

  KLIN begins simulcast on FM translator K233AN 94.5, with 250 watts on top of the U.S. Bank Building, Lincoln until 2014.

• 2014

  Begins simulcast on FM translator K257GN 99.3.