KASO is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a Classic Hits

Classic hits

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 format. Licensed to Minden

Minden, Louisiana

Minden is a city in the American state of Louisiana. It serves as the parish seat of Webster Parish and is located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish. The population, which has been stable since 1960, was 13,027 at the 2000 census...

, Louisiana

Louisiana

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, USA, the station serves the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area

Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area

The Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan area in northwestern Louisiana that covers three parishes – Caddo, Bossier, and De Soto. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 375,965...

. It is currently owned by the Greenwood Acres Baptist

Baptist

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 Church of Shreveport

Shreveport, Louisiana

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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

E.S. Richardson Elementary School

E.S. Richardson Elementary School is a pre-kindergarten through fifth grade campus which serves parts of the eastern section of the small city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana. The school opened in the 1949-1950 academic year, with Wayne Wynn Williams, Sr. , as the...

. It was launched in the early 1950s under the call letters KAPK. For decades, it was owned by the late H. Boe Cook and M. S. "Digger" O'Dell. The station for years stressed local news and offered regular commentary under the title "Memories of Minden."