KUYO | |
City: | Evansville, Wyoming |
Area: | Casper, Wyoming |
Airdate: | October 24, 1985 |
Frequency: | 830 kHz |
Format: | Christian radio |
Power: | 25,000 watts day 9,200 watts critical hours |
Class: | D |
Facility Id: | 11003 |
Owner: | Wyoming Christian Broadcasting Company |
Webcast: | Listen Live |
Website: | kuyo.com |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
KUYO (830 AM) is a Classic Christian format radio station licensed to Evansville, Wyoming. The station can be heard in 14 Wyoming counties,[1] and as far away as southwestern Wyoming during the daytime.[2] The station signs off at night to protect WCCO in Minneapolis as well as other stations on 830 kHz. The tower for the station is located three miles east-northeast of Evansville, not far from KTWO.[3] Despite signing off at local sunset, the station continues to broadcast programming online. KUYO has been heard by DXers as far away as 4000miles in Finland. [4]
The station signed on October 24, 1985. [5] It was part of a network of stations started by Christian radio pioneer Harold Erickson. His company was known as Christian Enterprise Inc..[6]
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Erickson started stations such as KURL, in Billings, Montana, KGVW in Belgrade, Montana (since deleted), KGLE in Glendive, Montana, KALS in Kalispell, Montana, and KNDR in Mandan, North Dakota (among others).[7] [8]
Christian Enterprise Inc., would eventually become Enterprise Network, of which KUYO was a part, along with four other stations. [9]
The station was sold in 1999 to its current owner Wyoming Christian Broadcasting Company.[10]