KCLS
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- For other uses, see kcls (disambiguation).
KCLS was the first radio station to broadcast in Northern Arizona. Licensed to Flagstaff, Charles J. Saunders put it on the air in 1950. It operated at 600 A.M. with 5,000 watts of power in the daytime and 500 watts directional at night. Throughout most of its history, KCLS broadcast "middle-of-the-road" or "adult contemperary" music. In the middle seventies, Jack Penland spearheaded a comprehensive news operation that continued for the rest of KCLS's life, even after Penland left in the late seventies. KCLS was perhaps best known for broadcasting Northern Arizona University sports. It went off the air in 1986.