Licensed to serve the Burlington, Iowa , United States. Studios for the AM station were located in a three-story brick building at North Main Street in downtown Burlington.
The transmitter site was constructed on a pasture north of town along Irish Ridge Road. KCPS has a directional array consisting of three foot towers and a daytime power output of watts. KCPS was originally a daytime only station. Operating hours expanded and contracted each month from summer to winter.
In the late s the sign-on became locked in at am, but the sign-off time occurred at sundown. In the summer months the station stayed on the air until pm. The FCC changed the rules for daytime stations in the s and which enabled KCPS to broadcast at night with the transmitter power reduced to 67 watts. The morning man during this era was Wayne Smith, who also served as program director.
She delivered the news for the station during the morning hours; top of the hour newscasts for the rest of the day were handled by the program hosts.
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Ostmo emceed a popular Sunday afternoon request show. He mixed in a greater amount of rock music to the station's play list. The approach was to play rock that sounded like country and country that sounded like rock. Darrell Michelson moved from Fairbury, Nebraska to replace Smith as the new morning man. Michelson stayed with the station until Michelson succeeded Ostmo as Program Director in late He took advantage of the Urban Cowboy craze and returned the station to its country music roots.
