KGGF (690

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. It airs a

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and is owned by Sek Media, LLC. The

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s and offices are on West 8th Street in Coffeyville. KGGF has a daytime power of 10,000

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s, covering parts of

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, Oklahoma,

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and

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is a Canadian and

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clear channel frequency. So at night, to reduce interference to other stations, KGGF reduces power to 5,000 watts. A

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is used at all times. The

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is a Harris DX-10 installed in 1997. KGGF uses a two-

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by day and a four-tower array at night, located off Clay Road.

Programming

KGGF features local news, farm reports and talk shows on weekdays, with

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hosts afternoons and nights. Hosts include

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and ''

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with

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'' overnight. Weekends feature shows about gardening, the outdoors, technology and old time radio shows. Weekend hosts include

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and '' Somewhere in Time with Art Bell''. World and national news is supplied by

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History

In 1930, KGGF first

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the air. It was powered at 1,000 watts and had to share time on the air on its original frequency of 1010

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s. On March 18, 1932, the Federal Radio Commission authorized moving the KGGF studios from

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, to Coffeyville, Kansas. The studios were at the corner of 8th and Elm Streets. The owner was Hugh J. Powell. In the 1930s, 1010 kHz was a regional channel. The station later got a boost to 5,000 watts maximum and 500 watts minimum. In 1941, with the enactment of

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(NARBA), KGGF was reassigned to 690 kHz, a Canadian clear channel frequency. It was authorized to run 50,000 watts maximum and 250 watts minimum, provided the station was 650 miles, or more, from the Canada–US border. Simultaneously, 1010 became a new Canadian clear channel frequency, assigned to

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while 690 was assigned to

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and later to

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. In October 1947, the

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approved the sale of KGGF from Hugh J. Powell to The Midwest Broadcasting Company for $400,000. In 1983, an FM station was added at 98.9 MHz. In 1991, Mahaffey Enterprises acquired KGGF-AM-FM for $750,000.Broadcasting Yearbook 2010 page D-228
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References

External links

KGGF-AM's website (within www.kggfradio.com)
* {{Tulsa Radio GGF (AM) News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1927