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The station began broadcasting June 4, 1952, and originally held the call sign KVIM. It briefly broadcast at 1570 kHz, before moving to 1360 kHz later in 1952. It ran 1,000 watts, and broadcast during daytime hours only. On March 1, 1966, its call sign was changed to KNIR.
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