KFYR (AM)

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KFYR (550

KFYR boasts an enormous daytime coverage area. This is due to its location near the bottom of the AM dial; lower frequencies have longer waves that tend to travel farther across terrain. This is especially true for stations that operate at 5,000 watts or more. Additionally, North Dakota's flat landscape provides near-perfect ground conductivity. Combined with its transmitter height, this gives KFYR a daytime footprint equivalent to that of a full-power FM station. It can be heard across almost all of North Dakota during the day, as well as in parts of Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Under the right conditions, it reaches into Nebraska. It has been claimed that KFYR has the largest daytime coverage area of any AM radio station in the United States. A similar claim can be made for WNAX in Yankton, South Dakota, which transmits on 570 AM.

At night, two towers are used in a directional pattern to protect CBK, the CBC Radio One outlet for most of Saskatchewan, which operates on nearby 540 AM. Even with this restriction, KFYR still covers almost all of North Dakota at night. It is the primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System in both North and South Dakota.

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In December 1953, it added television station KFYR-TV 5. Because KFYR was part of the NBC Radio Network, KFYR-TV became western North Dakota's NBC television affiliate, along with its three semi-satellites. In 1966, an FM station went on the air, KFYR-FM at 92.9 (now KYYY).

At one time, the Meyer Broadcasting Company roster also included AM radio stations in

Facing stiff competition from more youthful stations, KFYR began to see its dominance and audience decline in the early 1960s. It decided to switch to a

KFYR gained brief national notoriety in 1979, when the station was sued in

KFYR once broadcast in AM stereo, beginning with the Harris system in the mid-1980s, and later switching to the Motorola C-QUAM system. KFYR discontinued broadcasting in AM stereo around the turn of the millennium.^[2]

As younger listeners increasingly tuned to FM for their hits, KFYR switched its music to

Weekend syndicated shows include Armstrong & Getty and Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham. There is live play-by-play sports from the Minnesota Vikings and University of Mary football games, and high school sporting events. Some hours on weekends include oldies shows.

KFYR also broadcasts on an

• KFYR website
• Facility details for Facility ID 41426 (KFYR) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KFYR in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
• Facility details for Facility ID 2203 (K259AF) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• K259AF at FCCdata.org
• FCC History Cards for KFYR