KNFL (740 AM, "740 The Fan") is a

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broadcasting a

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format. The station serves the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Wausau, Wisconsin-based

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All the offices and studios are located at 1020 S. 25th Street in Fargo, while its 6-tower transmitter array is located northeast of Glyndon. It has the fifth biggest daytime AM signal in the country.

History

First known as KKAG, 740 AM signed on testing its signal on November 13, 2006 with open carriers and test tones. The station became fully licensed by the

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(FCC) on May 28, 2007 originally owned by Jeffrey Dress of

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, and had been on the air since with a

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format. Although the radio industry already had speculated so, KKAG was originally planned to be operated by the late

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, but the project was put on the back burner when Robert Ingstad's brother, James Ingstad, purchased the Clear Channel radio station group of Fargo in January 2007. On Monday, June 11, 2007, it was announced that

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, owned by James Ingstad, planned to buy KKAG from Jeffrey Dress, and that it would broadcast the Fan Radio Network. KVOX on 1280 AM (now

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), former home of The Fan, is now a

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radio station owned by Real Presence radio. The official sale to Ingstad was approved on August 3, 2007. KKAG began simulcasting KVOX on August 14, 2007. On September 14, 2007, KKAG changed its call letters to KVOX, and the former KVOX (1280 AM) switched to

. On March 29, 2017, the station changed its call sign to the current KNFL.

Former Logo

References

External links

740 The Fan
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