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KASO

KASO (1240 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Hits format. Licensed to Minden, Louisiana, United States, the station serves the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area.The station is located in Minden at 410 Lakeshore Drive on the eastern end of Turner's Pond near the E.S. Richardson Elementary School. It was launched in the early 1950s under the call letters KAPK. For decades, it was owned by Harold Ray "Boe" Cook (1925–1997), a native of Lampasas, Texas, and Manoah Shadrach "Digger" O'Dell Jr. (1926–2016), an Amarillo native. The two assumed management of KASO in 1961 and 1962, respectively, having come to Minden from Clovis, New Mexico. O'Dell also served four terms on the Webster Parish Police Jury, the parish governing body akin to the county commission in other states. The two were active in community affairs, and O'Dell himself was an accomplished golfer. The station for years stressed local news and offered regular community commentary under the title "Memories of Minden." On December 6, 2013, the station rebroadcast the Minden High School state championship football game played in Minden exactly fifty year earlier, on December 6, 1963, against the former Larose-Cut Off High School in Cut Off in Lafourche Parish, since Larose-Cut Off Middle School. Tied at half-time, the MHS team prevailed 28–21, with fourteen consecutive victories that year.In 2013, Richard Chreene and Marvin Davis purchased KASO and sister station KBEF from Robert and Mary Whitaker, the previous owners. The transaction, at a price of $260,000, was consummated on October 23, 2013.

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