KOLY (AM)
KOLY is an AM radio station licensed to serve Mobridge, South Dakota. The station is owned by James River Broadcasting. It airs a full-service oldies-lean classic hits music format with extensive news, agricultural reports, and sports. In the early 1980s, KOLY-AM featured a country music format, local and national news, and agricultural information.
KOLY is part of the Dakota Radio Group, which is owned by Ingstad Family Media. All three of the DRG stations in Mobridge—KOLY, KOLY-FM, and KMLO—share studios at 118 3rd St. East, in Mobridge.
The sister stations in the Mobridge/Pierre cluster include KGFX (AM), KGFX-FM, KJBI, KMLO, KOLY-FM, and KPLO-FM.
KOLY first went on the air in 1956. It was assigned the call letters KOLY by the Federal Communications Commission.
In the early 1980s, the station featured a country music format, local and national news, and agricultural information. The format later evolved into its current full-service classic hits/news/talk mixture.