Legacy KCKN 1340AM - Kansas City, Ks. - Radio and Television Transmitter Towers on Waymarking.com

Entrepreneur and businessman Everett L. Dillard is the individual credited with putting KCKN-AM on the air. The first call letters were WLBF. Dillard began broadcasting from his personal residence. The station's first studio/office location was on the 11th floor of the elegant Elks Lodge Building (905 North 7th Street) in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The building was last known as the Huron Building and was demolished in 1999. Dillard went bankrupt in the Great Depression. A Wyandotte County District Court Judge granted ownership of the radio station to Alexander Mainland and Herbert Hollister in 1930.

It was moved from 1420 kHz on the AM band to 1310 kHz, non-directional, with a power of 250 watts. It was on the air daily between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. The newspaper reported the station could be heard up to 300 miles away from Kansas City, Kansas with the new broadcast equipment and a higher tower. In 1941, under the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, KCKN Radio was moved to 1340 AM kHz, a frequency that is assigned to Kansas City, Kansas, to this day.

Blumenthal had to move the station out of The Kansas City Kansan's offices. He purchased a three-story, wood-frame farm house on the edge of town (4121 Minnesota Avenue, 66102) and converted it into studios and offices. A new, 150-foot guy-wired tower was constructed at the rear of the property. The large, open acreage, accessible by an asphalt road, was named "Radio Park". (This is the tower being waymarked -iconions)