KLEY (AM)
radio station in Wellington, Kansas
KLEY (1130 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a country music format to the Wellington, Kansas, United States, area. The station is owned by My Town Media. 1130 AM is a clear-channel frequency shared by Canada and the United States.
History
Ed & Zora Hundley's Sumner Broadcasting Company applied for a construction permit for KLEY on June 28, 1965. On November 4, 1966, the station applied for a license to cover its construction permit, and KLEY received its first license on February 6, 1967. The station has carried the callsign KLEY since its inception. KLEY was a family-owned station for years, run by Ed and Zora Belle Hundley. In the 1980s, it featured a variety of programming during a sunrise-to-sunset schedule, including a daily half-hour of polka music at 1:30 p.m.
FM sister station
KLEY gained a sister FM station in 1980 with the addition of 93.5 KZED. KZED is now known as KWME, and in December 2011, changed frequencies to 92.7 MHz.
Collapsed sale, silence, legal issues
On March 29, 2019, Rocking M announced they would sell KLEY and its five sister stations in the Wichita/Wellington/Winfield area to Allied Media Partners, a local group owned by Matt Baty and Tommy Castor, for $6.2 million.
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