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80-876: By day, KAKC transmits 5,000 watts . To protect other stations on 1300 kHz from interference, at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a three- tower array . The transmitter site is off South 109th Avenue East in Bixby . Much of the KAKC schedule is nationally syndicated talk shows. Weekdays begin with America in the Morning followed by This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal , The Michael DelGiorno Show , The Glenn Beck Program , The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show , The Charlie Kirk Show , The Jesse Kelly Show , The Joe Pags Show , Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and Red Eye Radio . In afternoon drive time , Lee Matthews

160-558: A light bulb with a power rating of 100 W is turned on for one hour, the energy used is 100 watt hours (W·h), 0.1 kilowatt hour, or 360  kJ . This same amount of energy would light a 40-watt bulb for 2.5 hours, or a 50-watt bulb for 2 hours. Power stations are rated using units of power, typically megawatts or gigawatts (for example, the Three Gorges Dam in China is rated at approximately 22 gigawatts). This reflects

240-451: A news/talk station, with bad ratings made worse by its poor signal. Meanwhile, KMOD returned on the air as an album rock station, and had good ratings but not many advertisers. They decided to simulcast KMOD-FM's album rock programs on KXXO's AM frequency, which lowered costs for running KXXO while attracting more listeners. Sales staff promoted to advertisers that their album-rock listeners were less "hip" and more "family-oriented", which

320-690: A $ 6 million renovation in 2018, and Hutcheson, a co-ed residence hall. Upperclassman and non-traditional student housing options include campus townhouses and the Northslope Apartments. Other buildings on campus are the Bill George Arena, Soderquist Business Center, Bell Science Hall, Mabee Learning Resource Center, Chapman Administrative Building, Blood Memorial (Admissions) Building, Berry Performing Arts Center, Balzer Technology Center, CARE Clinic, Simmons Great Hall, Health Education Building, Peer-Andrus Studio & Project Barn and

400-399: A Christian vocational college . Students worked jobs such as carpentry and helped in constructing the buildings on campus. The typical work-day was four hours in addition to class time. Apparently seeking to expand the reach of the growing college, John Brown announced in 1934 that the school was to be changed into a four-year university . The new university was divided into three colleges:

480-433: A Christian College in which a Christian college seeks to integrate faith and learning. When John Brown Jr. stepped down as president, the job fell to his son, John Brown III, who immediately sought to improve the academic quality of the university. He visited Wheaton College (Illinois) and heralded its commitment to an integration of academic quality and Christian faith. To accompany his praise of Wheaton, he announced that

560-541: A cafe, an open area for studying, bookstore, post office, and classrooms on the second floor. Attached to the student center is the Walker co-ed residence hall with male and female residents living on separate floors. There are three other residence halls on campus as well: J. Alvin Brown, an all-male dormitory and the oldest building on campus which was given a $ 6 million renovation in 2014; Mayfield, an all-female hall completing

640-459: A child. There were other artists from the 1940s and 1950s who played the state fair circuits later in life and visited Tulsa. They stopped by the studio and gave interviews to John Henry and Spencer Rhodes' early morning Country Swing and Rock and Roll show known as the "Hillbilly Hit Parade." In 1990, the station changed formats again, from oldies to CNN headline News. The popular morning show ended, although John Henry moved to an afternoon slot and

720-413: A period of one year: equivalent to approximately 114 megawatts of constant power output. The watt-second is a unit of energy, equal to the joule . One kilowatt hour is 3,600,000 watt seconds. While a watt per hour is a unit of rate of change of power with time, it is not correct to refer to a watt (or watt-hour) as a watt per hour. John Brown University John Brown University ( JBU )

800-521: A radio station: At the time, it was against American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As) 's rules for their members (ad agencies) to buy media companies, but when two other advertising agencies also bought media companies and all three left 4As to do so, 4As changed their rule to allow it. In 1971, Hite bought out the controlling stock from Tracy-Locke. KCNW was the first station in Tulsa to try programming with Countrypolitan music. In 1973, KCNW

880-721: A scholarship for Latin American students paid for by Sam Walton . John Brown III stepped down as president and was succeeded by George Ford, former Vice President of Roberts Wesleyan College , who left after less than a year because of internal difficulties with the university. During Ford's brief presidency, the university began offering an undergraduate degree completion program ("The Advance Program") in various locations in Northwest Arkansas. The former president of Tabor College in Kansas , Lee Balzer, took office after

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960-665: A simulcast blues show with KMOD-FM also continued. The next year, Henry's timeslot was moved to afternoons. In 2007, KAKC changed its format to sports, with programming from ESPN Radio . In 2008, Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners bought Clear Channel Communications for $ 26.7 billion in a leveraged buyout and took the company private. By that time, Clear Channel owned about 850 radio stations plus other media outlets. In 2014, Clear Channel changed their name to iHeartMedia, and in 2018 they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to restructure its $ 20 billion debt that it still owed from

1040-604: A special highlighting "the greatest technical foul in all of sports." John Brown University's main campus is located on 200 acres (0.81 km ) in Siloam Springs, Arkansas . The university's most recognizable building, the Cathedral of the Ozarks, was completed in 1957 and, along with the two Windgate Visual Art Buildings composes the Cathedral group. The Cathedral contains a sanctuary for chapel and other assemblies, and

1120-522: A statement of faith and employee expectations which include that "Scripture teaches that sexual intimacy is reserved for marriage and that a Christian marriage is a lifelong commitment between one man and one woman " John Brown University made national news when it changed its historically held position not to endorse dancing. In December 2006, the school sponsored its own swing-themed dance on campus. JBU made national news in early 2013 as it became famous for its yearly toilet paper basketball game. ESPN did

1200-541: A turbine, which generates 648 MW e (i.e. electricity). Other SI prefixes are sometimes used, for example gigawatt electrical (GW e ). The International Bureau of Weights and Measures , which maintains the SI-standard, states that further information about a quantity should not be attached to the unit symbol but instead to the quantity symbol (e.g., P th = 270 W rather than P = 270 W th ) and so these unit symbols are non-SI. In compliance with SI,

1280-495: A unit of time, namely 1 J/s. In this new definition, 1 absolute watt = 1.00019 international watts. Texts written before 1948 are likely to be using the international watt, which implies caution when comparing numerical values from this period with the post-1948 watt. In 1960, the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures adopted the absolute watt into the International System of Units (SI) as

1360-608: Is a private interdenominational Christian university in Siloam Springs, Arkansas . Founded in 1919, JBU enrolls 2,343 students from 33 states and 45 countries in its traditional undergraduate, graduate, online, and concurrent education programs. JBU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and competes athletically in the Sooner Athletic Conference . The 200-acre (0.81 km ) main campus in northwest Arkansas has been

1440-569: Is carried from co-owned KTOK 1000 AM in Oklahoma City . On weekends, syndicated shows include Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb , Armstrong & Getty , The Weekend with Michael Brown , Somewhere in Time with Art Bell , Gun Talk with Tom Gresham and Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham . Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio . This radio station has changed owners, programming formats, and call signs many times as

1520-471: Is designed to allow students to take Honors versions of the necessary core classes, which are supposed to be more challenging and more encouraging of independent student research. The libraries on campus house 120,000 volumes, and offer Interlibrary loan and tutoring assistance. John Brown University has two endowed, associated centers: The Center for Healthy Relationships and The Center for Faith and Flourishing. The John Brown (JBU) athletic teams are called

1600-543: Is held constant at one meter per second against a constant opposing force of one newton , the rate at which work is done is one watt. 1   W = 1   J / s = 1   N ⋅ m / s = 1   k g ⋅ m 2 ⋅ s − 3 . {\displaystyle \mathrm {1~W=1~J{/}s=1~N{\cdot }m{/}s=1~kg{\cdot }m^{2}{\cdot }s^{-3}} .} In terms of electromagnetism , one watt

1680-733: Is named after the Scottish inventor James Watt . The unit name was proposed by C. William Siemens in August 1882 in his President's Address to the Fifty-Second Congress of the British Association for the Advancement of Science . Noting that units in the practical system of units were named after leading physicists, Siemens proposed that watt might be an appropriate name for a unit of power. Siemens defined

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1760-523: Is the rate at which electrical work is performed when a current of one ampere (A) flows across an electrical potential difference of one volt (V), meaning the watt is equivalent to the volt-ampere (the latter unit, however, is used for a different quantity from the real power of an electrical circuit). 1   W = 1   V ⋅ A . {\displaystyle \mathrm {1~W=1~V{\cdot }A} .} Two additional unit conversions for watt can be found using

1840-401: Is very telling in this regard. When John Brown Sr. relinquished control of the university (at least in name, since he remained as chairman of the board) in 1948, he began a period of much-needed consolidation. During World War II the student body had dropped to barely over a hundred, and the high echelons of the school's leadership were being run almost exclusively by the Brown family. Under

1920-490: The Christian fundamentalist movement began to wane, as the university took an unexpected turn away from fundamentalism . John Brown himself was always a proponent of interdenominationalism , and by aligning himself with Youth for Christ and other evangelical organizations after World War II , JBU was making a statement. John Brown's description of the school in 1948 as " interdenominational and definitely evangelical "

2000-579: The Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament, the American Legion birthday party, and the opening week of the 1939 Major League Baseball season . In 1939, the license was modified to allow unlimited broadcasts, not just daytime, with 250 watts. In 1941, with the 1941 enactment of North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), KOME moved to 1340 kHz. In 1947, the frequency changed to 1300 kHz. Note that in 1939, their stated policy

2080-578: The International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m ⋅s . It is used to quantify the rate of energy transfer . The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish inventor , mechanical engineer , and chemist who improved the Newcomen engine with his own steam engine in 1776. Watt's invention was fundamental for the Industrial Revolution . When an object's velocity

2160-728: The history of Western civilization , a math requirement, wellness, psychology , government , and philosophy . In the period from 2003 to 2012, JBU rose from eighth to first in U.S. News & World Report rankings for the Baccalaureate Colleges in the Southern region. In 2016, due to growth in graduate programs, the university was moved to the Regional Universities in the Southern region category of U.S. News. In 2022, JBU ranked number ten on this list. JBU's Business department won first and second place at

2240-602: The 1930s and the 1940s. Two of the core artists were Hank Williams and Bob Wills . The program often broadcast from the Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa. The show concentrated on the early years of Rock and Roll and had many of the original artists in studio who gave interviews and spoke of their own upbringings. These artists included The Shirelles , Chubby Checker , Chuck Berry , Hank Williams' backup musicians and driver of their tour bus, Roy Orbison , Bo Diddley who in an interview with Spencer Rhodes spoke of his days picking cotton as

2320-568: The 1970s with uncertainty. Academic standards were low and classes were not challenging. The university recognized the need to improve its quality, so it brought in Elton Trueblood , professor of philosophy at Earlham College , who had written The Idea of A College which argued that colleges should focus on liberal arts over career preparation. Trueblood's visits in the mid-1970s inspired JBU to look for ideas in Arthur F. Holmes ' Idea of

2400-870: The Arkansas Governor's Cup Business Plan competition in 2007 and then in 2011 swept the Governor's Cup, receiving first, second, and third. In 2017, the JBU Enactus team won the U.S. National Championships and represented the U.S. at the Enactus World Cup in London. Its student newspaper, the Threefold Advocate, was named the best student newspaper in Arkansas in 2008 and 2010. The University Honors Program has 200 student members and

2480-612: The Berry Performing Arts Center which was completed in 2011. In 2012, it was announced that the Simmons family, owners of the privately held Simmons Foods located in Siloam Springs, would make a financial gift providing JBU with a new dining and gathering facility. The Simmons Great Hall was completed in mid-2013. The Health Education Building that houses the nursing department was completed in 2016. In

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2560-680: The Ford controversy with a plan to expand the university's reach. He extended the Advance Program for non-traditional students in other cities by establishing branch centers in Fort Smith, Arkansas and Little Rock, Arkansas . During his presidency, JBU offered its first graduate degrees, initially in school counseling , and later including master's degrees in marriage and family therapy , leadership and ethics, business ( MBA ) and Christian ministry. The Center for Marriage and Family Studies

2640-936: The Golden Eagles. The university is a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) since the 1995–96 academic year; which they were a member on a previous stint from 1980–81 to 1982–83. The Golden Eagles previously competed in the Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference (AIC) from 1993–94 to 1994–95; and as an NAIA Independent from 1983–84 to 1992–93. JBU competes in 11 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, track & field and volleyball. On March 22, 2005,

2720-631: The JBU men's basketball team won the 2005 NAIA Division I National Championship . John Brown defeated Azusa Pacific University 65–55 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City , Missouri . Each year during the first home game, JBU basketball fans come armed with rolls...and rolls...of toilet paper, which they hurl onto the court after the first JBU basket of the season. This 34-year-old tradition brings in record crowds with approximately 2,000 rolls of toilet paper and lands JBU an automatic technical foul for

2800-519: The Ozarks, the Science building, and the Library, supposedly symbolizing in building form the idea of educating "head, heart, and hand". As much as JBU grew during this period, it still lacked accreditation and its student body continued to hover at around 300 during the 1950s. After the founder's death in 1957, John Brown Jr. worked to improve the quality of the education JBU provided. One crucial step

2880-623: The South; when he bought KOME, he also owned WHSY Hattiesburg, WHNY McComb, WHXY Bogalusa, and WHHY Montgomery. In 1959, KOME became an affiliate of the ABC Radio Network to air hourly 5-minute segments of global news. In 1960, Franklin Broadcasting bought the station from Charlie Holt for $ 315,000 (equivalent to about $ 3,324,000 in 2024), which included paying Holt $ 15,000 consultant fee for three years. Franklin Broadcasting

2960-512: The Walton Lifetime Health Complex. John Brown University currently offers 50+ undergraduate majors, with the most popular as of 2022-23 being Nursing, Psychology, Family and Human Service, Kinesiology and Graphic Design - 65. As a liberal arts college , JBU requires all students to take a core curriculum of classes, which include several Bible classes, English , a foreign language requirement, science credit,

3040-470: The above equation and Ohm's law . 1   W = 1   V 2 / Ω = 1   A 2 ⋅ Ω , {\displaystyle \mathrm {1~W=1~V^{2}/\Omega =1~A^{2}{\cdot }\Omega } ,} where ohm ( Ω {\displaystyle \Omega } ) is the SI derived unit of electrical resistance . The watt

3120-399: The academic, vocational, and Bible colleges, fitting John Brown's stated vision of educating "head, heart, and hand". Spreading the new university's fields of study into new technology, Brown soon purchased a local radio station ( KUOA ) from which to broadcast Christian programming and his own sermons. Brown had used radio extensively before but was eager to get the resources of radio into

3200-768: The age of 11. As a teenaged laborer in Arkansas , Brown encountered the Salvation Army and underwent a conversion experience. After his conversion, he became an itinerant Methodist evangelist, with his travels taking him across Arkansas , Missouri , Kansas and the Indian Territory . Subsequent to becoming an evangelist, Brown accepted a position as president of Scarritt College in Neosho . His two years as president were instrumental in developing his plan to establish his own college. However, Brown felt that

3280-420: The back portion is a three-floor academic building housing the music department and the humanities and social sciences . The entire Cathedral group was recently renovated on the inside and resurfaced with white limestone on the exterior. Between the Cathedral group and Walker Student Center is the campus's main quad , which is used for recreation and relaxation by students. The student center itself houses

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3360-404: The bicycle, which they gave to a listener. Kluge and Austad sold KOME and three other stations they'd bought earlier ( KXLW St. Louis, WINE Buffalo, WEEP Pittsburgh) when they bought Metromedia . In 1958, Charles W. Holt and his associates bought the station from Kluge and Austad for more than $ 250,000 (equivalent to about $ 2,700,000 in 2024). Holt owned several radio stations, primarily in

3440-552: The call sign from KXXO to KMOD. The programming changed to Music of Your Life . In 1982, the format and call sign changed again. KMOD became KBBJ, and the format changed to big band and jazz . In 1987, the station's call sign changed again, from KBBJ to KAKC, which ironically was the same call sign used by their former rival (now KCFO ) in 1957. The format was oldies , including a morning show with popular DJs John Henry and Spencer Rhodes that featured County and Western swing and early rock and roll. They featured many artists from

3520-515: The energy company Ørsted A/S uses the unit megawatt for produced electrical power and the equivalent unit megajoule per second for delivered heating power in a combined heat and power station such as Avedøre Power Station . When describing alternating current (AC) electricity, another distinction is made between the watt and the volt-ampere . While these units are equivalent for simple resistive circuits , they differ when loads exhibit electrical reactance . Radio stations usually report

3600-540: The first consideration of JBU in selecting prospective students would be academic quality, and raising the entrance requirements. As expected, this began to attract more academically gifted students. Also, in the 1980s, an Honors Program was established. However, the third Brown made sure to maintain JBU's historic emphasis on career training, through its non-liberal arts programs such as Engineering , Construction Management, and Graphic Design . As well as academic programs, John Brown III instituted new building programs and

3680-460: The hands of the university. The expanded facilities, such as the distinctive Cathedral Group, which took root in the 1930s and 1940s, caused expenses for which the university had to pay. JBU began charging tuition in 1939, albeit a very small amount, and John Brown began to realize that financially, the vocational aspect of the school was more costly than anticipated. The university relied heavily on outside donations to break even financially. As

3760-501: The hosts from co-owned Premiere Networks , as well as shows from Westwood One and the Salem Radio Network . On September 9, 2024, KAKC began simulcasting on KTGX-HD2 and translator K228BR 93.5 FM Tulsa. [REDACTED] 35°59′40″N 95°51′27″W  /  35.99444°N 95.85750°W  / 35.99444; -95.85750 Watt The watt (symbol: W ) is the unit of power or radiant flux in

3840-529: The industry consolidated media ownership into the hands of a smaller number of companies who owned stations nationwide. The current KAKC is not the same as the KAKC in Tulsa from the 1950s through 1980. At that time, the KAKC call sign was used by 970 AM (now KCFO) , a station founded by Sam Avey , a wrestling promotor and owner of the Tulsa Oilers and broadcast from the Tulsa Coliseum until it

3920-460: The maximum power output it can achieve at any point in time. A power station's annual energy output, however, would be recorded using units of energy (not power), typically gigawatt hours. Major energy production or consumption is often expressed as terawatt hours for a given period; often a calendar year or financial year. One terawatt hour of energy is equal to a sustained power delivery of one terawatt for one hour, or approximately 114 megawatts for

4000-758: The money borrowed during the leveraged buyout. In 2019, iHeartMedia returned as a publicly-traded company. Meanwhile, during this period of restructuring, the station changed programming formats again. In 2015, KAKC became the local network affiliate of CBS Sports Radio . It was the Tulsa radio home for the Oklahoma City Thunder , the Tulsa Roughnecks FC and the Cleveland Browns Radio Network . In 2021, KAKC changed its format from sports to conservative talk, branded as "1300 The Patriot". It began carrying many of

4080-488: The power of their transmitters in units of watts, referring to the effective radiated power . This refers to the power that a half-wave dipole antenna would need to radiate to match the intensity of the transmitter's main lobe . The terms power and energy are closely related but distinct physical quantities. Power is the rate at which energy is generated or consumed and hence is measured in units (e.g. watts) that represent energy per unit time . For example, when

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4160-626: The rapid expansion of the past decade. Pollard's most notable legacy will likely be his extremely successful expansion of the JBU endowment, upgrade of the facilities and successfully growing the school's enrollment. Under the leadership of Pollard, JBU has seen significant growth through a number of sizable financial gifts. Graduate programs expanded to include the Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Education, and M.S./MBA in Cybersecurity. It

4240-437: The real things of life." Maintaining this goal of establishing a college that would provide an interdenominational , Christian education for needy students, who like himself, might not have had a chance of receiving an education, Brown laid the foundation in 1919 for the institution that would later be called John Brown University, John E. Brown College. To pay for the institution's free tuition, Brown developed his school as

4320-622: The season. The JBU varsity men's golf team was originally formed in 1966. The team lasted until 1973, at which time it was cut from the athletic program. The school restarted its men's varsity golf team in the fall of 2008 and remained intact until 2016. JBU began a cheer squad in the fall of 2010. JBU had cheerleading many years ago, but it only counted as a club then. The university has club rugby, ultimate frisbee and esports teams for both men and women. The JBU Talons men's club baseball team began play in 2021. These clubs compete against clubs from other universities. To house its club teams, JBU has

4400-466: The second Brown, professors and administrators were hired who had more advanced degrees , the Board of Trustees began to develop as a more independent body, and the students elected representatives to an independent council. All of this was beginning to occur by the end of the 1940s. Also, the university began construction on its Cathedral Group, composed of the chapel sanctuary, known as the Cathedral of

4480-498: The site of the university since it was founded in 1919. JBU has 2,343 students as of the 2021–2022 school year, 1,228 of whom are on-campus undergraduates. Of these, 818 live on campus. In addition, the university has two off-campus locations, one in Rogers and another Little Rock . John E. Brown (1879–1957) was not afforded the opportunity to pursue much education, as his family's financial difficulties forced him to begin working at

4560-538: The span of barely more than five years. In 2004, Balzer retired. JBU selected Charles (Chip) Pollard, then Professor of English at Calvin College, to take the office of president for the institution. Since taking office, Pollard has overseen an interior and exterior renovation of the Cathedral Group, the expansion of North Hall, growth in the student body to over 2,000 students, and general consolidation after

4640-601: The station as part of an effort to create an endowment for his school. At the time of purchase, the University was already running two other radio stations: KUOA in Siloam Springs, Arkansas was a student-run station on the university campus, and KGER in Long Beach, California was part of the endowment effort. The station and its new owner entered into controversy with an early decision: they would not air advertisements for beer or other alcoholic beverages. Part of this

4720-452: The station from John Brown University for $ 100,000 (equivalent to about $ 1,111,400 in 2024). During the short period of this new ownership, KOME attracted attention with various stunts. For example, the station sent homing pigeons to advertising executives asking for orders. They hired a helicopter to drop toy dogs around Tulsa for a listener contest. Rocky Frisco road his bicycle 500 miles to interview Elvis Presley and get his autograph on

4800-409: The strong emphasis of that school on education without the benefit of life training was harmful to the students. As he said in 1903, "It might be my privilege to have a part in the building of school that would turn the minds of youth back from this exaggerated concept of the value of book knowledge, to the realization that all this is valuable only as it becomes a background for, or the foundation under,

4880-447: The tradition of some other private Christian universities, John Brown University maintains a conservative set of lifestyle choices. Students sign a community covenant stating they will abstain from profanity, pornography, extramarital sexual activity, harassment, tobacco use, alcohol use, and gambling. The covenant also strictly prohibits LGBTQIA+ relationships on campus. Staff and faculty are not required to sign this covenant but must sign

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4960-540: The turbulent years of the Vietnam War and the peace movement , JBU was relatively undisturbed. The school nurtured at that time a strong Christian Americanist vision of the world, tying American patriotism and political conservatism to conservative Christian faith. Instead of joining the anti-war movement, many JBU students joined organizations like Campus Crusade for Christ and traveled to other campuses. When those turbulent times had come and gone, JBU faced

5040-569: The unit of power. In the electric power industry , megawatt electrical ( MWe or MW e ) refers by convention to the electric power produced by a generator, while megawatt thermal or thermal megawatt (MWt, MW t , or MWth, MW th ) refers to thermal power produced by the plant. For example, the Embalse nuclear power plant in Argentina uses a fission reactor to generate 2,109 MW t (i.e. heat), which creates steam to drive

5120-517: The unit within the existing system of practical units as "the power conveyed by a current of an Ampère through the difference of potential of a Volt". In October 1908, at the International Conference on Electric Units and Standards in London, so-called international definitions were established for practical electrical units. Siemens' definition was adopted as the international watt. (Also used: 1 A × 1 Ω.) The watt

5200-415: The university grew, Brown continued to preach throughout the country and on the radio. He was well known for his attacks on liquor , gambling , dancing , and other Christian fundamentalist issues of the time. This brought him into close proximity with Bob Jones Sr. founder of Bob Jones University , who presented Brown with an honorary doctorate in 1937. In the 1940s, the close ties between JBU and

5280-410: Was "no liquor advertising", and that was not uncommon: A 1939 annual listing of radio stations had 110 stations limiting or refusing alcohol-related advertisements. This would be a controversial issue with the next station owner. In 1951, John Brown University bought the station from Oil Capital Sales for $ 200,000 (equivalent to about $ 2,387,000 in 2024). John Elward Brown, the school's founder, bought

5360-485: Was advertisers' target audience. In June 1973, Mays and his partners also bought WOAI (AM) in San Antonio, a clear-channel station . They did this with a new company named Clear Channel Communications . For a while, this new company would operate separately from San Antonio Broadcasting. However, in 1979, they would merge the two companies, transfer KXXO's license to Clear Channel Communications, and in 1980 change

5440-489: Was announced in early 2010, after receipt of an $ 8 million anonymous donation, that JBU would construct a new engineering and construction management building. The building was completed in 2011 and named the Balzer Technology Building in honor of the school's former president. Later that year, a JBU engineering student turned successful alumnus and businessman, Bill Berry, provided the financial gift for

5520-667: Was because Brown was a Methodist and evangelist, part of it was because the university was a Christian one where alcohol was also forbidden, and part of it was because they were marketing their three radio stations as wholesome "stations of the American home". Also, Oklahoma was still "dry" . When federal Prohibition ended in 1933, Oklahoma did not end it in their state. Instead, they passed the Oklahoma Beer Act of 1933 and only allowed sales of "near beer" (3.2% ABW beer) . Regular beer, wine, and liquor were illegal to sale in stores, bars, restaurants, and other establishments. This

5600-473: Was buying other Franklin Broadcasting stations such as WWOM New Orleans, and buying KVIM New Iberia with attorney Fred P. Westenberger, with a company portmanteau of their names: Wagenwest Inc. Within two years, KOME was reportedly owned by Wagenwest. In 1968, Tracy-Locke bought KOME from Wagenvoord. Tracy-Locke is a Dallas-based advertising agency, and Morris L. Hite was the company president. Tracy-Locke created two subsidiary companies, each of which bought

5680-420: Was defined as equal to 10 units of power in the practical system of units. The "international units" were dominant from 1909 until 1948. After the 9th General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1948, the international watt was redefined from practical units to absolute units (i.e., using only length, mass, and time). Concretely, this meant that 1 watt was defined as the quantity of energy transferred in

5760-700: Was destroyed in the 1952 fire. The station signed on the air in 1938, broadcasting at 1310 kHz with 250 watts power. It was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System . Their slogan, playing on the KOME call sign, was "Kovers Oklahoma's Magic Empire", creating a backronym by misspelling "covers" as "kovers". Tulsa was known as the "Magic Empire" originally because the Tulsa Daily World's circulation department referred to their circulation area with this phrase. The station

5840-602: Was established during the Balzer presidency. Under President Balzer, JBU also founded the Soderquist Center for Business Leadership and Ethics to promote ethical principles in the business world. In addition, JBU's financial campaign at the end of the 1990s raised more than 39 million dollars to build Walker Student Center, Bell Science Hall, North Hall, and the Soderquist Business Center, all in

5920-690: Was failing financially and another Tulsa-based station owned by Tracy-Locke ( KMOD-FM ) had been off the air for a year and was in bankruptcy. Investment banker Lowry Mays and auto magnate Red McCombs had recently formed the San Antonio Broadcasting company, and bought another failing radio station ( KEEZ (FM) in Texas. They bought the two Tulsa stations for relatively little money—KCNW for $ 665,000 (equivalent to about $ 4,700,000 in 2024) and KMOD for $ 85,000 (equivalent to about $ 613,500 in 2024). They changed KCNW's call sign to KXXO. It became

6000-566: Was on Christmas Day and included 'special programs from New York City, Chicago, and Oklahoma City and featured Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys , Governor E.W. Marland , Jimmie Wilson and his Catfish String Band, and the Pioneer Mother's Chorus.' At first, the station's license only allowed daytime broadcasts, but they received special permission to air in the evenings for New Year's celebrations, President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's 1939 President's Birthday Ball to fight infantile paralysis,

6080-464: Was publicly traded company owned primarily by William F. (Bill) Johns Jr., and they controlled many other stations including at this time WMIN St. Paul, WLOD Pompano Beach, and KRIB Mason City, WYFE New Orleans. In 1962, Franklin Broadcasting merged with Radio Concepts Inc. of New York, which created and sold radio advertising and promotional items. Although Radio Concepts worked as a division of Franklin Broadcasting, by 1963, Franklin Broadcasting

6160-623: Was started by Harry Schwartz, who also was the president of the Tulsa Federation of Labor, and a business manager for the union's monthly paper, the Unionist Journal . Schwartz created the Oil Capital Sales Corporation business name to run the station and he owned 98% of its stock; in addition to being called the "Magic Empire," Tulsa also was often called the "Oil Capital". The first KOME broadcast

6240-406: Was the abolition of the university's vocational college . Citing the shifting makeup of the workforce in the 1960s, the president did away with the vocational requirement, with the understanding that each department would provide practical career training as part of its curriculum. As a result of these reforms and others, JBU was finally nationally accredited by North Central Association . During

6320-814: Was true until Oklahoma passed the Liquor Control Act of 1959. KOME was still affiliated with Mutual Broadcasting System, and the station relayed their programming which included Falstaff beer ads during baseball game broadcasts. As a result, Mutual ended the affiliation. Some other stations followed KOME's lead, and the decision entered into public debate along with the wider issue of continued Prohibition in Oklahoma. Brown died in February 1957, and in September of that year John Brown University sold KOME. In 1957, John Kluge and Mark Evans Austad bought

6400-631: Was trying to sell all their radio stations. They tried to sell KOME to Producers, Inc. (wholly owned by Polaris Corporation) for the same amount they paid for it in 1960, but the deal did not go through. They finally sell it to Wagenvoord Broadcasting. In 1964, Wagenvoord Broadcasting Company bought KOME from Franklin Broadcasting. David Wagenvoord worked for Franklin Broadcasting before this purchase, as executive vice-president of radio operations for all their stations, and as general manager of WWOM New Orleans and vice-president of their New Orleans branch office before that. Around this same time, Wagenvoord also

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