KFQD

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KFQD
KFQD NewsTalk103.7-750 logo.png
Frequency 750 kHz
BrandingNews Talk 750 and 103.7 KFQD
Programming
Format News/talk
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KBRJ, KEAG, KHAR, KMXS, KWHL
History
First air date
May 17, 1924(100 years ago) (1924-05-17)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 52675
Class A
Power 50,000 watts
Translator(s) 103.7 K279BG (Anchorage)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website kfqd.com

KFQD (750 AM) is a commercial radio station in Anchorage, Alaska branded as "News Talk 750 and 103.7 KFQD". It broadcasts a news/talk format and is owned by Alpha Media LLC. The studios and offices are on Arctic Slope Avenue in Anchorage. [2]

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KFQD is the oldest radio station in Alaska and one of the most powerful. It is a Class A, 50,000 watt, non-directional station broadcasting on a clear channel frequency. The transmitter site is off Merlene Lane in Point MacKenzie. [3]

KFQD is Alaska's primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System (EAS). It is also heard on 250 watt FM translator 103.7 K279BG in Anchorage and its adjacent suburbs. [4]

Programming

KFQD begins each weekday with a three-hour block of local news and information. That's followed by nationally syndicated conservative talk shows including Armstrong & Getty, Dave Ramsey, Chad Benson, Clyde Lewis and Markley, Van Camp & Robbins. Weekends include Kim Komando, The Great American Outdoors, Big Alaska, Science Fantastic with Dr. Michio Kaku and Bill Handel on the Law .

KFQD was the radio play-by-play home of the ECHL's Alaska Aces, which was simulcast by GCI on their cable network. KFQD also simulcasts some of the newscasts of KTUU-TV Channel 2, the Anchorage NBC Television Network affiliate.

History

1944 station advertisement

KFQD was first licensed on May 20, 1924, to the Chovin Supply Company. [6] The call letters were randomly assigned from an alphabetical roster of available call signs. The station was deleted in early 1925, [7] but relicensed, again to Chovin Supply Company as KFQD, later that year. [8]

In 1926, ownership was transferred to the Anchorage Radio Club. [9] In 1929, the station was deleted a second time, [10] but revived by the Anchorage Radio Club later that year. [11] By the 1930s, KFQD was transmitting at 780 kHz, with a power of 250 watts, and studios at 411 Fourth Avenue.

With the 1941 implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), KFQD moved to 790 kHz, a regional frequency, still powered at 250 watts, but able to broadcast around the clock. [12] By this time, there were four radio stations in the Territory of Alaska. KFQD was the oldest, followed by stations in Ketchikan (KGBU, July 29, 1926), Juneau (KINY, June 25, 1935), and Fairbanks (KFAR, October 30, 1939).

In the late 1940s, KFQD got a power boost to 5,000 watts. In the 1960s, it moved to the clear channel frequency 750 kHz, shared with WSB Atlanta but far enough away to avoid causing nighttime interference. At first, KFQD was powered at 10,000 watts. By the 1970s, it had raised its daytime power to 50,000 watts, but still 10,000 watts at night.

Then in the 1990s, as the Federal Communications Commission relaxed protections for the original clear channel stations, KFQD was permitted to broadcast at 50,000 watts around the clock, joining WSB as a Class A station on 750 AM.

In 1998, KFQD was acquired by Morris Communications. [13]

Alpha Media LLC became KFQD's owner on September 1, 2015.

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KFQD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ KFQD.com/contact
  3. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KFQD
  4. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/K279BG
  5. ↑ KFQD (advertisement), Broadcasting, April 24, 1944, page 40.
  6. ↑ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, June 2, 1924, page 3.
  7. ↑ "Strike out all particulars", Radio Service Bulletin, March 2, 1925, page 7.
  8. ↑ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, December 31, 1925, page 3.
  9. ↑ "Alterations and corrections", Radio Service Bulletin, October 31, 1926, page 8.
  10. ↑ "Strike out all particulars", Radio Service Bulletin, August 31, 1929, page 10.
  11. ↑ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, November 30, 1929, page 4.
  12. ↑ "List of radio broadcast stations, alphabetically by call letters, as of March 29, 1941", page 10.
  13. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010 page 53

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