KMED as separate operations. In contrast, the "History of KMED" section in a 1949 station advertisement does trace the current station's origin to KFAY's establishment in 1922, and in 1957, KMED celebrated its 35th anniversary, again placing its start with KFAY in 1922. Later, a 1994 detailed review of the history of Oregon radio by Ronald Kramer concluded that KFAY and KMED should be considered two different stations, and in 2012, KMED Program Director Bill Meyer was quoted as saying that since the late 1990s, the radio station had stopped claiming that it was the oldest in Oregon. KMED By 1926, it was becoming acceptable for radio stations to sell airtime, thus they could be self-financing. A full page advertisement in the October 6, 1926 Medford Mail Tribune proclaimed that "NOW! A Radio Broadcasting Station for Medford. A New Western Electric Station of the Latest Type Will Be Established Here in the Near Future by Virgins Radio Service and the Medford Mail Tribune", and that this new station would be "'on the air' soon". In early December, Virgin sold his radio shop to H. C. Witham, in order to "devote his entire time to the new Virgin-Mail-Tribune broadcasting station which will start operation this month". KMED was first licensed in December 1926 to W. J. Virgin, transmitting on 1200 kHz, and located at the Sparta Building. The station was closely affiliated with the local newspaper, which commonly referred to KMED as the "Mail Tribune-Virgin station". KMED made its debut broadcast on the evening of the 28th, featuring members of the local Craters Club. The next day's broadcast was announced to be 7:45 to 9:00 p.m., beginning with 15 minutes of news and weather provided by the newspaper. W. J. Virgin died of kidney failure in January 1928, and his wife, Blanche, assumed station ownership, becoming one of the earliest women to own and manage a radio station. In 1950, she sold KMED to Radio Medford. In late 1957, the station's Program Director wrote to the local paper reporting that as of that January the station had "banned from its library of usable records any records that would offend what might be called a reasonable majority of the public" after "realizing the folly of the 'Rock and Roll' era". In December 2022, the station owners announced that KMED would cease broadcasting on January 8, 2023, and move its news/talk programming to