KHWG (750
AM) was a
radio station
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broadcasting a
classic country
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Repertoire
The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on inn ...
format. Licensed to
Fallon, Nevada
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History
The community was first popul ...
, United States, the station was owned by Media Enterprises, LLC.
This station operated at 750 kHz, with a power of 10,000 watts day and 250 watts night, both non-directional. KHWG's studio was located at 1050 West Williams Avenue (U.S. Route 50) in Fallon, with transmitter facilities at 3447 Veterans Memorial Highway on the outskirts of Fallon.
History
Beginnings in Carson City
The history of KHWG dates back to 1991, when Caballero Radio West purchased two construction permits for this station, then known as KKNK in
Carson City, Nevada
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, and KKNC in
Sun Valley, California
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, at a price of $37,500, according to the 1993 Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook. KKNK was granted a permit to operate at 10,000 watts unlimited time, with different directional antenna patterns for day and night.
Move to Fallon
KKNK never made to the air in Carson City. The construction permit for KHWG (not yet assigned call letters) later ended up in the hands of Kidd Communications, a company based in
South Lake Tahoe, California, and headed by Chris Kidd, who at the time also owned
KTHO
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in South Lake Tahoe. Kidd applied for the permit in May 2002. The construction permit was then transferred to another company owned by Chris Kidd, known as Eastern Sierra Broadcasting, and also located in South Lake Tahoe.
Litigation
The construction permit for KHWG was transferred again, this time from Chris Kidd to Keily Miller, owner of
Pahrump, Nevada
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, television stations
KPVT-LP and KHMP-LP, in settlement of a lawsuit between them, in December 2002, over the intended sale of the construction permit and its sale price. Miller at the time owned another radio station in
Quincy, California
Quincy (formerly, Quinsy) is a census-designated place and the county seat of Plumas County, California. The population was 1,630 during the 2020 Census, down from 1,728 during the 2010 Census, and 1,879 during the 2000 Census.
History
Quincy ...
bearing the call letters of KHWG. Both parties settled out of court on October 31, 2002, with Miller paying Kidd a total of $35,000 for the construction permit.
Sign-on and subsequent failure
KHWG was granted approval by the FCC to take its new call sign on October 1, 2003, later signing on at its assigned power. The call letters of Miller's KHWG in Quincy were retired and replaced with
KHGQ.
Miller then set up Media Enterprises controlling KHWG. She transferred the license from herself (as an individual) to the new company in August 2005. In January 2006, Media Enterprises applied to the FCC for a daytime power increase to 10,000 watts.
KHWG went silent on January 1, 2015, citing "a lack of revenue".
The station's license was canceled by the FCC on July 5, 2016, due to the length of time for which the station had been silent.
As of 2018, the station's tower is still standing and its studio building with the station signage remain intact.
References
External link
FCC Station Search Details: DKHWG(Facility ID: 135862)
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Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Nevada
Radio stations disestablished in 2016
2016 disestablishments in Nevada
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