KANA

This article is about the radio station. For other uses, see Kana (disambiguation).

KANA (580 AM) was a radio station licensed to serve Anaconda, Montana. The station was owned by Ted Austin, through licensee Southwest Montana Media LLC. It aired a classic hits music format.^[3]

KANA

Anaconda, Montana
Frequency	580 kHz
Programming
Format	Defunct (formerly Classic hits)
Ownership
Owner	Ted Austin (Southwest Montana Media LLC)
History
First air date	First license granted October 24, 1946
Call sign meaning	ANAconda[1]
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	668
Class	D
Power	1,000 watts (day) 197 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates	46°07′43″N 112°55′25″W
Translator(s)	100.7 K264CZ (Butte)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

The station's transmitter site was off Landfill Road in Anaconda, Montana.

The station was assigned the KANA call sign by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).^[4]

Ownership

In December 2006, a deal was reached for KANA to be acquired by Butte Broadcasting, Inc. (Ronald Davis, president/general manager) from Jim Ray Carroll as part of a three-station deal with a total reported sale price of $500,000.^[5]

Butte Broadcasting donated KANA to A.W.A.R.E., Inc., a non-profit corporation, effective August 3, 2012.

Effective October 25, 2018, A.W.A.R.E., Inc. sold KANA to Ted Austin's Southwest Montana Media LLC for $25,000.

On August 21, 2023, Southwest Montana Media surrendered the licenses for KANA and translator K264CZ to the FCC, who cancelled them the same day.^[6]