WKSN


WKSN - branded Kissin' Oldies 1340 - is a commercial oldies radio station licensed to Jamestown, New York. Owned by Media One Group, the station serves as a local affiliate for the Cleveland Indians Radio Network.

History

AM 1340 signed on in 1948 as WJOC. It used the call sign WXYJ in the mid-1960s before adopting the WKSN call sign and "Kissin'" slogan by no later than 1968. For most of its early history, WKSN played a Top 40 format using the "Good Guys" slogan. A television sister station, WNYP, signed on in 1966, when both stations were owned by Bud Paxson; channel 26 shut down after three years and its license is now being used by a religious station. During the 1990s and early 2000s, WKSN was an oldies outlet carrying a local morning show and a midday show by Paul Hoefler, as well the satellite Good Time Oldies from Jones Radio Networks until the station was bought out by Media One Group, LLC in 2003.
Soon after Media One's purchase, WKSN began being used as a counterprogramming station to the other AM radio station in Jamestown, WJTN, also owned by Media One Group. From approximately 2004 until the summer of 2008, the station ran with shows such as Rush Limbaugh, Imus in the Morning, Bill Bennett, Dr. Dean Edell and Glenn Beck, as well as affiliations with Talk Radio Network and FOX Sports Radio. On July 4, 2008, WKSN switched back to the oldies format. With the change to oldies, Edell, Beck and Ed Schultz were moved to sister station WJTN, while Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the market altogether. Not long afterward, WJTN also changed to a music format, extending its adult standards/MOR format throughout the day.
WKSN was an affiliate of Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel until that station ceased terrestrial distribution in June 2014. WKSN was an affiliate of NFL on Westwood One then moved to sister station WJTN; for many years, it was the radio home of the Jamestown Jammers.
WKSN began streaming its programming on the Internet in November 2019.