Jim Kallas started his radio career over 40 years ago, while studying Mass Communications at Black Hills State, and as a part-time announcer at KDSJ 980 AM in Deadwood. From there he moved to on-air nights as part of the legendary KSKY (KSQY) line-up broadcasting from the bank building on historic Main Street, downtown Deadwood. […]

Al and Jeanne Decker owned KDSJ Radio from July 1982-December 2019. Here are the highlight clips from Uncle Al’s last full broadcast day November 25, 2019.  

Cody Oliver has been with KDSJ since 2006 as the News and Sports Director. He grew up around Lemmon, South Dakota, and graduated from Lemmon High School in 2002. He always knew he wanted to be in radio and broadcast sports since being a kid and doing the play-by-play of basketball games in the stands. […]

Ryan Reider is originally from Woonsocket, South Dakota, and got his start in radio at KDSJ as a part-time announcer during his junior year at Spearfish High School in May 1994. In December 1995, he left KDSJ and moved to Wessington Springs, South Dakota, with his parents. In April 1996, he began as a part-time […]

Black Hills Gold Hits-KDSJ 980 AM/103.5 FM in the Northern Hills is a radio station offering a full service format of music, news, weather and sports. Licensed to Deadwood, South Dakota, the station serves the Northern Black Hills area (about 45,000 people).  The station’s music mix includes tunes from the 1960’s and the 1970s (with […]