KXSP
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FCC | |
Facility ID | 50313 |
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Class | B |
Power | 5,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°18′55″N 95°59′52″W / 41.31528°N 95.99778°W |
Repeater(s) | |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | www.am590espnradio.com |
KXSP (590
KXSP operates with 5,000
History
On April 2, 1923, the station first
In 1951, Meredith Corporation bought the WOW stations. The AM station became a Top 40 station in the early 1970s, where former Shindig! host Jimmy O'Neill worked for a time, and a country station in the early 1980s. In 1955, it dropped network affiliations with NBC Radio and agreed to switch to CBS Radio as part of a five-station deal covering TV and radio stations in three cities.[4] Meredith sold channel 6 to Chronicle Publishing Company in 1975, but held on to the radio station until selling it to Great Empire Broadcasting in 1983. Journal Broadcast Group bought it in 1999. On November 22, 1999, the WOW call letters were dropped in favor of KOMJ with adoption of a new format of adult standards, branded as "Magic 590". On April 25, 2005, KOMJ and then-sister station KOSR (1490 AM) swapped formats, with 590 adopting the sports format (as "Big Sports 590") under new call letters KXSP, and 1490 adopting the standards format and KOMJ calls.
On February 1, 2011, KXSP swapped affiliations with KOZN; KOZN took the Fox Sports Radio affiliation, while KXSP took ESPN. With the affiliation swap, KXSP rebranded as "AM 590 ESPN Radio".
On August 23, 2012, KXSP began airing The Front Stretch Radio Show on Sunday mornings. Originally hosted by Michael Grey, Buddy Ray Jones and Andrew Kosiski, The Front Stretch covered local dirt track racing and NASCAR.
Journal Communications and the E. W. Scripps Company announced on July 30, 2014, that the two companies would merge to create a new broadcast company under the E. W. Scripps Company name that will own the two companies' broadcast properties, including KXSP. The transaction was completed in 2015.[5]
On February 10, 2015, Journal Broadcast Group and the IMG Group announced they had signed a contract for Journal to be the broadcast partner for Nebraska Cornhuskers sports. Effective July 1, 2015, KXSP became the primary station for Nebraska Cornhuskers sports broadcasts, sharing flagship status with Lincoln's KLIN. Co-owned KEZO will simulcast football games, while KKCD will air any volleyball, women's basketball and baseball games that conflict with other athletic events. This ended a nine-decade association between the Huskers and KFAB, the state's most powerful radio station. However, school officials had long felt chagrin at KFAB's unwillingness to air all major sports, and wanted all games to air on a single, powerful station. KXSP's daytime broadcast range is almost as large as that of KFAB's.[6][7] As mentioned above, this is due to Nebraska's flat land; most 5,000-watt AM stations in the Midwest have daytime footprints comparable to those of full-power FM stations.
Scripps exited radio in 2018; the Omaha stations went to SummitMedia in a four-market, $47 million deal completed on November 1, 2018.[8]
Award
WOW received a 1946
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KXSP". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-129
- ^ a b White, Thomas H. (January 1, 2014). "K/W Call Letters in the United States". United States Early Radio History. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
- ^ "Five Meredith stations become CBS affiliates" (PDF). Broadcasting – Telecasting. January 24, 1955. p. 62.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "E.W. Scripps, Journal Merging Broadcast Ops". TVNewsCheck. July 30, 2014. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
- ^ "- Huskers on Am 590". Archived from the original on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
- ^ Cordes, Henry (2015-02-10). "Tuning in to a new era of Husker radio: NU switches Omaha affiliate from 1110 KFAB to 590 KXSP". Omaha World-Herald.
- ^ "Scripps Completes Two More Pieces Of Radio Division Sale". Inside Radio. November 2, 2018. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
- ^ "Peabody Awards for '46 Announced" (PDF). Broadcasting. April 21, 1947. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
External links
- AM 590 ESPN Radio Official Website
- History of WOW
- KXSP in the FCC AM station database
- KXSP in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for KXSP