Sioux City, Iowa

Sioux City is a city located in Western Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 85,013. It is the county seat of Woodbury County{{GR|6}}.

Media

Television stations

• KTIV, Channel 4, NBC affiliate; ratings leader in the market
• KCAU, Channel 9, ABC affiliate (formerly KVTV)
• KMEG, Channel 14, CBS affiliate; infamous for refusing to air David Letterman's show when he moved to CBS; carried no news programming from the mid 1970s to late 1990s.
• KSIN, Channel 27, PBS member station
• KPTH, Channel 44, Fox affiliate; signed on in the late 1990s; Fox programming had aired on KMEG prior to KPTH's arrival

Radio stations

(Note: Not an all-inclusive list. Some low-power stations and stations audible from adjacent markets are excluded. Due to extremely high soil conductivity in the Midwest, many AM stations from other cities are audible in Sioux City.)

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FM stations

• KMSC, 88.3, operated by Morningside College
• KWIT, 90.3, public radio, operated by Western Iowa Technical Community College
• KGLI, 95.5, "KG95" -- long-time top 40 station (since approximately 1983)
• KSEZ, 97.9, "Z98" -- plays rock music; was a top 40 station "Rock 98" in the 1980s
• KKMA, 99.5, "Kool 99.5" -- plays oldies; formerly adult contemporary "Magic 99"; call letters were KZZL in the early 1980s as an easy listening format
• KKYY, 101.3, "Y101.3" -- country music; the newest FM signal in the market
• KZSR, 102.3, "Star 102.3" -- a "hot adult contemporary" station; signed on in the mid-1990s
• KTFC, 103.3, religious ("Midwest Bible Radio")
• WNAX-FM, 104.1, country; broadcasts from Yankton, South Dakota; low-power translator K283AG broadcasts at 104.5 FM in Sioux City, but both frequencies are audible in Sioux City. Previously oldies/classic hits KCLH; was top 40 KQHU "Q104" in 1990
• KSUX, 105.7, "The SuperPig, K-Sioux 105.7"; has played country music since the signal went on-air in the fall of 1990; reportedly the station's first owners named the station after the airport abbreviation (SUX) and did not recognize the latent humor in the KSUX calls until it was too late.
• KSFT, 107.1, plays adult contemporary music; signed on in the mid-1990s

AM stations

• WNAX, 570, talk radio and farm news from Yankton, South Dakota; massive signal covering much of the upper Midwest
• KMNS, 620, talk radio; for a long time, was "62 Country"
• KSCJ, 1360, talk radio; call letters derive from the Sioux City Journal, which once owned the station
• KWSL, 1470, sports talk; was a top 40 station long long ago

Print

• Sioux City Journal, daily newspaper serving entire Siouxland region
• Dakota County Star, weekly newspaper serving northeast Nebraska
• Sioux City Hispanos Unidos, bi-weekly spanish readers paper