KPNW (1120

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licensed to

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format, known as "Newsradio 1120 and 93.7". The studios and offices are on Valley River Drive in Eugene. KPNW and

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. KPNW is a Class B station. It is powered at 50,000

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s, the maximum for commercial AM stations. As

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is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A station

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, KPNW uses a

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with a four-

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full time to avoid interference. The signal covers the Western parts of

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in daytime and much of the

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at night. The

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is on Hideaway Hills in Creswell.Radio-Locator.com/KPNW-AM
/ref> KPNW is also heard in Eugene, Springfield and adjacent communities on 250-watt

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K229DC at 93.7

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Programming

Weekday mornings on KPNW begin with ''Wake Up Call'', an information and interview show with local hosts Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder. The rest of the day includes

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programs: ''Markley, Van Camp, & Robbins, The Dana Loesch Show, Infowars with Alex Jones,

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'' (Larson was a one-time news intern at KPNW) and ''

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, Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell,

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History

The station

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the air on February 12, 1962. The original

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was KPIR and it broadcast on 1500 kHz. KPIR was a

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station, powered at 10,000

s using a nondirectional antenna but required to go off the air at night. The call sign was changed to KPNW on September 25, 1967. Shortly afterward, the station's owner, Emerald Broadcasting Corporation, changed its name to Pacific Northwest Broadcasting Corporation. For most of the 1960s and 1970s, KPNW had a middle of the road format, with popular adult music, news and sports. It was a

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of ABC Radio. In 1968, it added a

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, 99.1 KPNW-FM. At first, the two stations mostly

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their programming, but KPNW-FM eventually had its own format of beautiful music. Today, it is

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. In May 1969, KPNW moved to the current 1120 kHz frequency. It increased power to 50,000 watts and began using a

. The directional signal is necessary to avoid causing interference to

, which is the dominant Class A station on the same frequency. At 50,000 watts full-time, KPNW is the most powerful AM station on the West Coast between

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and

Translator

KPNW also broadcasts on the following translator:

References

External links

KPNW official website
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FCC History Cards for KPNW
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