KPXQ
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Affiliations | SRN News USA Radio Network |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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KKNT, KXXT | |
History | |
First air date | 1947 |
Former call signs | KRUX (1947–1981) KLFF (1981–1992) KNNS (1992–1994) KGME (1994–1999) KFDJ (1999–1999) KCTK (1999) |
Former frequencies | 1340 kHz (1947–1957) |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 55912 |
Class | B |
Power | 50,000 watts days 1,000 watts nights |
Transmitter coordinates | 33°30′28.00″N 112°13′1.00″W / 33.5077778°N 112.2169444°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | faithtalk1360.com |
KPXQ (1360
By day, KPXQ is powered at 50,000 watts non-directional, the highest output for commercial AM stations. But to protect other stations on 1360 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to 500 watts and uses a directional antenna. The transmitter is on also on Camelback Road, but at a different location near North 73rd Avenue.[2]
Programming
KPXQ is a brokered programming station. Hosts buy time on the station and may use their shows to seek donations to their ministries.
National programs include
Two secular talk shows are heard, hosted by Jay Sekulow and Eric Metaxas. Updates are supplied by SRN News.
History
Early years
KPXQ signed on in 1947[3] The original call sign was KRUX and it was owned by Gene Burke Brophy. The studios were in the historic Hotel Westward Ho.
.At first, the station broadcast on 1340 kHz. KRUX moved to 1360 in 1957 after being denied a frequency change to 910 kHz ten years prior.
Top 40 era
From the late 1950s until the 1970s, KRUX was a major Top 40 station in Phoenix. During its heyday, it competed head to head with KRIZ 1230 AM for Top 40 radio dominance in Phoenix. KRUX and KRIZ went back and forth in the ratings game before both stations succumbed to the more popular FM stations by the late 1970s.
On January 20, 1967,
Some of the station's all time ratings getters were the personalities of the 1960s, known as the "KRUX Good Guys": Lucky Lawrence, "Bobby-Poo" Bob Shannon (later heard on
Format changes after Top 40
For a brief period in the mid-1970s, KRUX experimented with an
With the insurgence of FM competition, it was difficult for an AM music station to compete for listeners. KRUX's owner, the
In 1981, KRUX became KLFF with the "
In April 1999, AM/FM Broadcasting purchased the call letters, studio, and programming of KGME, moving them to 550 kHz. In turn, co-owned KOY, which was the first radio station in Arizona and had been on 550 since 1941, moved to 1230 where it remains to this day. KGME and news/talk sister-station KFYI swapped frequencies in 2000, with sports on 910 and news/talk on 550.
Sale to Salem Media
New Planet Radio kept the 1360 transmitter, changing the call letters to KFDJ, and began simulcasting co-owned KEDJ 106.3 until the AM station was sold to Salem.
Salem purchased the station in 1999, with intentions of creating a new
References
- ^ "KPXQ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/KPXQ
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1950 page 74, Broadcasting & Cable
- ^ Stark, Phyllis (March 18, 1995). "Vox Jox". Billboard. 107 (11): 78.
- ^ "KPXQ Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
External links
- KPXQ in the FCC AM station database
- KPXQ in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for KPXQ