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KOAN (1080 AM) is a commercial
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in
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. It is owned by Iglesia Pentecostal Vispera del Fin. Its studios are located on Business Park Boulevard in Anchorage, and its transmitter is located in South Anchorage. KOAN is an
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Class A station, broadcasting with 10,000
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s with a
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. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM
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K236CG on 95.1
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Programming

Hot Talk 1080 aired a
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, with mostly syndicated programs, many from the
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. Weekday hosts include
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. Most hours begin with world and national news from
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. As of at least November 2020, the conservative talk format has been replaced with an all-Spanish music format. This was observed by a radio hobbyist in the central Interior of Alaska who can pick up the signal most winter mornings till a bit after sunrise, 230 mile miles away. The Spanish language format was noted in mid-November 2020 and a newspaper article says the change happened November 6 when the station was sold, despite nothing having allegedly been filed with the FCC yet.


History


KANC era

In the early 1970s, Mt. Susitna Broadcasting Corporation applied to the
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(FCC) for a
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for a new broadcast radio station. The FCC granted a permit for a new 10,000
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s station to broadcast as a
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on 1080 kHz. The new station was assigned the
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KANC. After construction and testing were completed, the station was granted its
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and began regular broadcasting on May 10, 1975. Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-8 KANC was launched with a "progressive"
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format. By 1979 the station had switched to a
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radio format before shifting to "crossover country" music after the 1980 film
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touched off a surge in country's popularity across the United States. In September 1980, KANC applied to allow the control of broadcast license holder Mt. Susitna Broadcasting Corporation to transfer from Media, Inc., to Yukon Broadcasting Company. The FCC approved the move on January 16, 1981. In June 1982, the KANC license and station assets were sold by the Mt. Susitna Broadcasting Corporation to Community Pacific Broadcasting through their Community Anchorage Broadcasting, Inc. subsidiary. The deal gained FCC approval on October 21, 1982, and formal consummation took place on November 15, 1982.


Era of change

The new owners had the FCC change the station's
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to KTNX on November 16, 1982, while maintaining a format described as "continuous hit country". Still a country music outlet, the station's call sign was changed to KASH on December 10, 1985. Late in the 1980s, the station transitioned to a middle of the road/
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music format with a corresponding call sign change to KKSD on September 15, 1988. In November 1991, Community Pacific Broadcasting applied to the FCC to transfer the KKSD license internally from its Community Anchorage Broadcasting, Inc., subsidiary to Community Pacific Broadcasting Company, L.P. The FCC approved the move on January 13, 1992, and the transfer took place on March 20, 1992. Station management had the FCC return the station to the KASH call sign on November 20, 1995. In January 1997, Community Pacific Broadcasting reached an agreement to sell KASH to Capstar Broadcasting subsidiary Community Acquisition Company, Inc. The sale was approved by the FCC on March 13, 1997, and the deal completed on July 14, 1997. This began a series of internal moves that saw control of the license passed from Capstar Broadcasting Partnert, L.P., to Capstar Broadcasting Corporation effective July 21, 1997, and on to Capstar Radio Broadcasting Partners, Inc., on July 31, 1997, and Pacific Star Communications, Inc., in August 1997. (Capstar Broadcasting was itself acquired by
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in October 1999.)


KUDO era

In August 1997, Capstar Broadcasting subsidiary Pacific Star Communications, Inc., made a deal to sell KASH to Chinook Concert Broadcasters, Inc. The FCC approved the deal on October 14, 1997. The new owners changed the format to
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radio and had the FCC change the
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to KUDO on January 25, 2002. In July 2005, Chinook Concert Broadcasters, Inc., contracted to sell KUDO to
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Local 1547 through a
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called IBEW Local 1547 Investments, LLC. The station sold for a total cash price of $244,000. The sale was approved by the FCC on September 19, 2005, and the transaction was completed on September 26, 2005. With a mix of syndicated and local programming, including shows hosted by Camille Conte and journalist Shannyn Moore, by late 2007 KUDO was the lowest-rated of the 22 radio stations in the Anchorage market. On January 21, 2010, KUDO's provider of syndicated talk programming
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filed for
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and ceased live programming the same night. Reruns of Air America's programming continued to air until Monday January 25 at 4 pm Alaskan Time. In December 2010, KUDO was taken silent and its local talk talent (including Shannyn Moore) shifted to the newly reactivated
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for its relaunch under the moniker "Fox News Talk 1020." On June 6, 2011, KUDO returned to the air with a
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format, branded as "The Ticket" and affiliated with
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. In December 2011, the
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(through their IBEW Local 1547 Investments, LLC, license holding company) agreed to sell KUDO and its assets for $5,000 to Falcon Broadcasting, LLC, which is owned and operated by local broadcaster Tettyana Sevvina Robbins. Her husband, Mike Robbins, has a significant financial interest in Anchorage radio stations
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(1020 AM),
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(94.7 FM),
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(105.7 FM), and KLEF (98.1 FM) plus a
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to operate KMVV (104.9 FM). After overcoming several legal objections, the station's sale was authorized by the FCC on June 28, 2012. The assignment of the station's license was consummated on July 9, 2012. On November 26, 2013, KUDO changed its format to talk, branded as "Hot Talk 1080", and changed its call sign to KOAN on December 2, 2013. As of June 2021, KOAN is now broadcasting in an all-Spanish language music format. Effective July 30, 2021, Falcon Broadcasting sold KOAN and translator K236CG to Iglesia Pentecostal Vispera del Fin for $450,000.


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