KKAA (1560 AM, "Pure Country 107.1 & 99.9") was a radio station licensed to serve Aberdeen, South Dakota.
In the summer of 1974, KKAA's transmitter site was constructed 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Aberdeen, next to the waste treatment plant.
The original on-air format was modern country music, and the station operated 24 hours a day.
Within three years, the general manager was elected to the South Dakota state legislature and most of the original crew were moving on to other opportunities.
One of the people who moved on, was Aberdeen's own Jerry Oster, who migrated to WNAX, where he has held almost every job at the station and is now the news director.
At the time, KKAA broadcast a country music format and a spokesman for Robert Radio stated they intended to maintain this programming.
[2] In May 2001, the station added "News and Views with Ed Schultz," a current affairs talk show based at KFGO in Fargo, North Dakota, to its weekday lineup.
"Tradio," a locally popular show during which listeners call in to buy and sell goods, remained on the Saturday morning schedule.
[6] In August 2004, KKAA was acquired by locally owned Aberdeen Radio Ranch as part of a group sale by Clear Channel Communications.
In November 2004, Aberdeen Radio Ranch reached separate agreements to sell KQAA-FM to the Educational Media Foundation, and KKAA (1560 AM) and KQKD (1380 AM) to Family Stations, Inc.[7] KKAA broadcast Family Radio Ministry programs preparing Aberdeen for the Rapture on May 21, 2011, which predicted that the world would end on October 21, 2011.