Nebraska Radio History Archive Presentation:
KCRO
WAAW was Nebraska's first radio. The station went on the air in 1922, when almost every station was assigned to 360 meters (that oddball 833mhz). There appears to be no significant history regarding the station until 1949 when WAAW would become KOWH at 660AM. Before it would land there, the station would move to 1050 in 1924, switch to 780 in 1925, 680 in 1927 then 860 between 1928 until 1930.
Obviously the OWH in KOWH stood for Omaha World Herald, who operated the station from 1939 to 1949 when it became part of the famous STORZ group of stations. In the late 50's KOWH and their top 40 format would disappear.
KMEO then surfaced with an easy listening format until the early 60's when KOZN (Country Cousin) was born. By the early 70's KOZN was gone (the calls would resurface in the next millennium as a sports station at 1620). KOWH was reborn as a soul station until the mid 70's when it was 'born again" as KCRO, a Christian station.
In 2001 RadiOmaha until the end of 2001 sold 660 to Eternal Broadcasting, operating under a joint sales agreement with Waitt Media. It wasn't until early 2003 that KCRO shed it's daytime only status and was authorized for 24 hour operation (54 watts post sunset).
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