KVNA (AM)

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KVNA
KVNA ESPN104.7-600 logo.png
Broadcast area Flagstaff–Prescott, Arizona
Frequency 600 kHz
BrandingESPN 104.7FM AM600
Programming
Format Sports
Affiliations ESPN Radio
Ownership
OwnerYavapai Broadcasting Corporation
KKLD, KQST, KVNA-FM, KVRD-FM, KYBC
History
First air date
 1958 (as KEOS)
Former call signs
KEOS (1958–1981)
KZKZ (1981–1986)
Call sign meaning
KVoice of Northern Arizona (former slogan)
Technical information
Facility ID 68567
Class D
Power 1,000 watts (day)
48 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
 35°12′2″N111°36′49″W / 35.20056°N 111.61361°W / 35.20056; -111.61361
Translator(s) 104.7 K284BO (Flagstaff)
Links
Website KVNA Online

KVNA (600 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, the station serves the Flagstaff area. The station is currently owned by Yavapai Broadcasting Corporation. [1]

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KVNA is also heard on FM translator K284BO at 104.7 MHz broadcasting from Mt. Elden and serving the greater Flagstaff area, giving the station the "Sunny 104.7" identification. KVNA has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to a different transmitter site and increase the night power to 70 watts. [2]

History

KEOS

Today's KVNA started as KEOS, which used the slogan "Service in Sound in Northern Arizona" in the 1950s and 1960s. The station was owned by Flagstaff businessman Jack Bird and licensed to Thunderbird Broadcasting Company; the call letters stood for the initials of the first owner, E.O. Smith. KEOS ("Chaos") was a 1,000-watt daytimer signing off at sunset each day on the 1290 AM frequency.

In 1963, the second radio station to operate in Flagstaff failed. KGPH signed on December 6, 1950, from studios in the Weatherford Hotel. [3] The station would relocate from 1230 kHz to 690 in 1953. [4] KGPH was bought by a part-owner of Phoenix's KOY in April 1956; [5] the new owners changed the callsign to KVNA. In June 1963, KVNA was sold to Frontier Television for $95,000. [6] KVNA was described as defunct by that September, [7] and in October, KEOS filed to take over the superior 24-hour facilities that belonged to KVNA. The application was approved in 1966, but it was not until the station completed construction of its new studio facilities, on September 8, 1969, that it moved to 690. [8] The new KEOS broadcast with 1,000 watts day and 500 watts night, DA-2. The station later changed its call sign to KZKZ after it was sold in 1981.

KVNA

Last logo under News/Talk format KVNA-AM.png
Last logo under News/Talk format

After Communications Ltd. (Ed Raabe and Paul Seyler) purchased the station in 1986, they changed the call sign from KZKZ to KVNA (returning the callsign to the frequency for the first time since 1963), and paired it with a new FM station at 97.5 MHz (KVNA-FM).

On July 14, 1988, the station that had been recognized as Northern Arizona's news and sports station, KCLS at 600 kHz, shut down when its owner opted to convert the land into a mobile home park. KVNA moved to acquire on-air talent, including the former KCLS general manager, and sports rights including Los Angeles Dodgers baseball and Flagstaff High School football. [9] In the mid-1990s, under new ownership, KVNA would acquire the dormant KCLS license in order to relocate KVNA to 600 kHz.

On December 30, 2014, the "Sunny" AC format of KVNA-FM moved to KVNA and its FM translator as "Sunny 104.7". KVNA flipped to sports talk in 2019.

Station Ownership

owned no other radio stations

owned no other radio stations

owned stations in Kansas along with 97.5 KVNA-FM and was to sign on current KMGN

owned sister stations KZGL-FM, KVNA-FM along with stations in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, California, New Mexico and Minnesota

currently owns KQST-FM, KVNA-FM, KVRD-FM, KKLD-FM, KYBC-AM

On-air personalities/shows

Some notable radio personalities have worked at either KVNA or KCLS earlier in their careers. Tim Hattrick of the well known Phoenix morning team of Tim and Willie (who have worked at KMLE and KNIX) started at KZKZ while in college at Northern Arizona University. Jim Sharpe, who has worked mornings in several major markets, including Los Angeles spent some of his early radio career at KCLS in the early 1980s. Some other notable personalities and shows to appear on either station were:

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References

  1. ↑ "KVNA Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ "FCC Construction Permit". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "New Radio Station to Broadcast Tonight". Arizona Daily Sun. December 6, 1950.
  4. ↑ Associated Press (January 9, 1953). "Station Gets OK To Increase Power". Arizona Daily Sun. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Phoenix Group Buys Local Radio Station". Arizona Daily Sun. April 16, 1956.
  6. ↑ "New Station Owner". Arizona Daily Star. June 12, 1963. p. 1.
  7. ↑ "Station KAFF Goes on Air Next Monday". Arizona Daily Sun. September 20, 1963.
  8. ↑ "NOTICE". Arizona Daily Sun. September 6, 1969.
  9. ↑ Hagen, Phil (July 24, 1988). "KVNA makes most of opportunities". Arizona Daily Sun. p. 20. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
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