History
KOIL was originally owned by the Mona Motor Oil Company (hence the "OIL" in the call letters) and located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, KOIL signed on July 10, 1925.
KOIL was one of the stations that participated in the first CBS network radio broadcast on September 18, 1927.
It originally broadcast at 1080 AM before moving to 1290 AM. The station moved to Omaha in 1937.
The station was purchased by salesman and promoter Don Burden in 1953.
KOIL later adopted a Top 40 format.
As a result of a Federal Communications Commission investigation into improprieties, Burden was forced to surrender his radio licenses, and KOIL went off the air in September 1976. The last song played as it went off the air in September 1976 was Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence."
Three months later, on December 16, 1976 KOIL returned to the air under new ownership by Omaha businessman Nathan Novak.
In 1993, it moved to 1180 AM in an exchange with station KKAR. In April 2003 it moved to 1020 AM, replacing KKSC (now KMMQ). The callsign returned to 1180 kHz in January 2009; on June 4, 2012, KOIL was moved back to 1290 AM.
Announcers who once worked for KOIL include Roger W. Morgan, Gene Okerlund, Gary Michael Ross, Dr. Don Rose, Dick Sainte, and former Shindig! host Jimmy O'Neill. The Real Don Steele, Frank "Coffeehead" Allen, and Sandy Jackson.
Read more about this topic: KOIL
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“I saw the Arab map.
It resembled a mare shuffling on,
dragging its history like saddlebags,
nearing its tomb and the pitch of hell.”
—Adonis [Ali Ahmed Said] (b. 1930)
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)