KNSI (1450 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. It is owned by Leighton Media, which also owns KCLD-FM, KZPK and KCML. KNSI is also carried on HD Radio, via KZPK-HD2.
History The station was first licensed on December 20, 1937, and went on the air on June 4, 1938, as KFAM on 1420 kHz for a two-day preview. Regular programming began on June 6. The call letters recalled an earlier St. Cloud station, WFAM, owned by the Times Publishing Company and the St. Cloud Daily Times, which had been first licensed in June 1922"New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, July 1, 1922, page 3. and deleted in the summer of 1928;"Strike out all particulars of the following named stations", Radio Service Bulletin, July 31, 1928, page 18. the new KFAM was also owned by the Times. In 1941, under the provisions of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, KFAM moved to its current frequency of 1450 kHz.
In September 1948, KFAM was joined by a sister station, KFAM-FM 104.7. The two stations were later sold to Alver Leighton in September 1975 and changed their call letters to KCLD and KCLD-FM.
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