KGNW

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KGNW
KGNW 820AMTheWord logo.png
Broadcast area Seattle metropolitan area
Frequency 820 kHz
Branding820 AM The Word
Programming
Format Christian talk and teaching
Network SRN News
Ownership
Owner
KKOL
History
First air date
October 10, 1970;53 years ago (1970-10-10) (as KQIN at 800)
Former call signs
KQIN (1970 [1] -1986) [2]
Former frequencies
800 kHz (1970-1986)
Call sign meaning
KinG (County) NorthWest
Technical information
Facility ID 28819
Class B
Power 50,000 watts days
5,000 watts nights
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website kgnw.com

KGNW (820 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Burien, Washington, and serving the Seattle metropolitan area. It airs a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by the Salem Media Group. The radio studios and offices are on 5th Avenue South in downtown Seattle.

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By day, KGNW is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial stations. But 820 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WBAP Fort Worth. So to avoid interference, at night KGNW reduces power to 5,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array at all times. The transmitter is off 105th Street SW on Vashon Island. [3] The station is licensed to broadcast in the HD Radio format. [4]

Programming

KGNW airs a mix of local preachers and national Christian leaders. They include David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll, Jim Daly, Alistair Begg, Greg Laurie, John MacArthur, J. Vernon McGee and Charles Stanley. Two secular programs are also heard from Eric Metaxas and Jay Sekulow.

KGNW uses a brokered programming model. Hosts pay for their time on the station and may ask for donations to their ministries during their shows. National news is supplied by SRN News.

History

800 AM KQIN

The station signed on the air on October 10, 1970;53 years ago. Its original call sign was KQIN and it broadcast on 800 kHz. The station was a daytimer, required to go off the air at sunset. It was owned and operated by John Mowbray who also served as general manager. [5]

KQIN played country music and competed with 1150 KAYO (now KKNW), 101.5 KETO (now KPLZ) and later KMPS-FM 94.1 (now KSWD). As more country music listeners switched to the FM band, KQIN changed to a Beautiful Music format in 1977. But that put it in competition with such FM easy listening stations as 94.1 KEUT (now KSWD), 98.9 KEZX (now KPNW-FM), 100.7 KSEA (now KKWF) and 103.7 KBRD (now KHTP). KQIN also aired Christian radio programs as well as old-time radio dramas and comedies. KQIN changed to an Adult Contemporary music format in 1983.

Move to 820 AM

On September 19, 1984, Salem Communications acquired 1150 AM in Seattle and changed its call letters to KGNW. Salem is the nation's largest owner of Christian radio stations and gave the 1150 station a Christian talk and teaching format. But that station does not have a very good signal. Salem had plans to acquire KQIN's daytime-only signal on 800 AM and improve it, making it a place to relocate KGNW. [6]

In the mid-1980s, the Federal Communications Commission relaxed rules that restricted lesser-class stations on Class A, clear channel frequencies. Fort Worth and Seattle are separated by more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km). So Salem Media engineers applied to move KQIN to 820 AM, even though WBAP 820 Fort Worth is a Class A station powered at 50,000 watts.

KQIN moved to the 820 AM dial position on January 1, 1987. The KGNW call letters and its Christian talk and teaching format were removed from 1150 AM and relocated to 820 AM. The move allowed KGNW to increase its daytime power to 50,000 watts and add nighttime power at 5,000 watts, using a directional antenna. [7] Today, the KQIN call sign belongs to a PBS-affiliated television station owned by Iowa Public Television in Davenport, Iowa. The 1150 AM station in Seattle was sold to Hubbard Broadcasting and is now talk radio outlet KKNW.

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References

  1. ↑ History Cards for KGNW, fcc.gov. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ Call Sign History, fcc.gov. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KGNW
  4. ↑ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=28819 FCC station search details
  5. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-224. Retrieved Jan. 18, 2024.
  6. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010 page D-574. Retrieved Jan. 18, 2024.
  7. ↑ "KQIN Radio commercial from 1986". YouTube .

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