KASI

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Radio station in Ames, Iowa

title: "KASI" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["radio-stations-in-iowa", "news-and-talk-radio-stations-in-the-united-states", "ames,-iowa", "radio-stations-established-in-1948", "1948-establishments-in-iowa", "iheartmedia-radio-stations"] description: "Radio station in Ames, Iowa" topic_path: "geography/united-states" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASI" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Radio station in Ames, Iowa ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox radio station"]

Field	Value
name	KASI
logo	KASI-AM logo.png
city	Ames, Iowa
country	US
area	Des Moines metropolitan area
frequency
branding	KASI News Talk 1430
format	Talk radio
affiliations
owner	iHeartMedia, Inc.
licensee	iHM Licenses, LLC
sister_stations	KCYZ, KDRB, KKDM, KXNO, KXNO-FM, WHO
airdate
callsign_meaning	Ames Iowa
licensing_authority	FCC
facility_id	2116
class	D
power
coordinates
webcast
website
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By day, KASI is powered at 1,000 watts non-directional. To avoid interference at night to other stations on 1430 AM, KASI reduces power to 32 watts. The station's transmitter is on Martin Street off North Dakota Avenue in Ames. According to the Antenna Structure Registration database, the tower is 124.4 m tall.

Programming

The schedule is nationally syndicated talk hosts. Because iHeart also owns another talk station heard in Ames, 50,000-watt WHO 1040 Des Moines, KASI avoids duplicating WHO's programming. Syndicated weekday programs include Armstrong & Getty, The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, The Jesse Kelly Show, Red Eye Radio, America in the Morning and Markley, Van Camp & Robbins.

Syndicated programs on weekends include At Home with Gary Sullivan, Rich DeMuro on Tech, Bill Handel on the Law, The Pet Show with Warren Eckstein, America at Night with Rich Valdes, Big Billy Kinder Outdoors and repeats of weekday shows. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio. KASI and sister station KCYZ 105.1 FM carry Iowa State Cyclones college football and men's basketball games.

History

KASI signed on the air in October 1948. The station was assigned the KASI call letters by the Federal Communications Commission. It was originally a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. The owner was the Ames Broadcasting Company with studios at 328 1/2 Main Street.

Ames Broadcasting also applied for an FM construction permit to put a station on the air at 95.5 MHz. The company proposed that it would have a power of 45,000 watts, however KASI-FM was never built. In 1968, Ames Broadcasting put an FM station on the air, KCCQ on 107.1 MHz. It had an automated top 40 format.

References

"Winter 2008 Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
[http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrRegistration.jsp?regKey=120036 FCC Antenna Structure Registration data]
"Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1950/RADIO%20&%20TV%20ALL%20YB%201950%20B&W-11.pdf ''Broadcasting Yearbook 1950''] page 143, [[Broadcasting & Cable]]
[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1977/C%20Section%20Radio%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201977%20P-6.pdf ''Broadcasting Yearbook 1977'' page C-74]

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