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KVNU (610
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) is a
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licensed to
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. It is owned by the Cache Valley Media Group and airs a
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format, serving the Logan metropolitan area. KVNU also broadcasts
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sports. KVNU first signed on in 1938 and was owned by the family of Herschel Bullen until 1996.


History


On 1200 kHz (1938–1941)

Following a
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issued February 19, 1938, KVNU first
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on November 17, 1938, with a broadcast originating at
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. KVNU originally broadcast at 1200 kHz at 100 watts. It was owned by the Cache Valley Broadcasting Company, led by S.L. Billings and other
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entrepreneurs; Herschel Bullen and his son
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became stockholders of KVNU's parent company. In its early years, KVNU had a full service format of news, music, and entertainment and had studios at the Capitol Theatre in Logan. In 1940, KVNU increased its power from 100 to 250 watts.


On 1230 kHz (1941–1948)

With the enactment of the
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(NARBA) in 1941, the frequency moved to 1230 AM. By 1945, the Bullens had become majority owners of the Cache Valley Broadcasting Company, with Herschel leading the company and Reed moving up from station general manager to company general manager to company director. Reed hosted ''Man on the Street'', a daily 12:15 p.m. live broadcast from a local jewelry business soliciting opinions from members of the public. KVNU also joined the
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by 1945. Then in 1946, KVNU began broadcasting games of the
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team of what was then Utah State Agricultural College (now
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). ''The Billboard 1946–47 Encyclopedia of Music'' listed three regular music programs on KVNU, including a show devoted to
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and a request show sponsored by Sears, Roebuck. KVNU also broadcast some national entertainment programs, such as '' Chandu the Magician'' and '' The Roy Rogers Show''.


On 610 kHz (1948–present)

KVNU moved to its current frequency of 610 kHz in 1948 and raised its power to 1 kW. In 1958, the Bullen Family was granted a
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from the
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to put a television station on Channel 12 in Logan. The permit was later transferred to the
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to put a
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station on Channel 12. In 1961, KVNU raised its power from 1 kW to 5 kW. Through the 1960s and 1970s, KVNU was a
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station and an affiliate of the ABC Contemporary Network. In the 1970s, the daytime power was doubled to 10,000 watts. The ''Broadcasting Yearbook 1980'' listed KVNU as an MOR formatted station. By 1985, KVNU changed its format to
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. In the late 1980s, KVNU added
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to its schedule, with the ''Broadcasting Yearbook 1987'' listing KVNU as an
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affiliate. Reed Bullen retired as KVNU manager in 1986 and transferred the station to his son Jonathan. Then in 1996, the Bullen family sold KVNU to the Cache Valley Media Group. By 1998, KVNU phased out music and became a news/talk station. The 2001 KVNU schedule included local news shows, '' The Rush Limbaugh Show'', and
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. In May 2017, Utah State discontinued its decades-long partnership with KVNU and changed its flagship station to KZNS in Salt Lake City. Utah State student radio station
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became the Logan affiliate of the Utah State network. In July 2023, KVNU returned to the Utah State sports network.


Programming


Talk shows

KVNU is branded as "The Voice of Northern Utah". It has local talk shows on weekday morning (6 to 10 a.m.) and afternoon (4 to 6 p.m.)
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slots. The rest of the weekday schedule consists of nationally syndicated programming, including Premiere Networks' '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. Weekends feature syndicated talk shows and brokered specialty lifestyle shows about topics such as gardening and finance. Syndicated weekend shows include '' Handel on the Law'', '' At Home with Gary Sullivan'', and '' The Kim Komando Show''. KVNU is part of the
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network, with ABC's weekly newsmagazine ''Perspective'' broadcast Saturday nights.


Sports

KVNU has live broadcasts of the
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for
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and
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. From 1946 to 2017, KVNU had first broadcast Utah State sports. KVNU resumed Utah State sports broadcasts in 2023 after a six-year absence. KVNU has also broadcast Logan High School football since the 1940s.


Technical information

The KVNU studios are located at the Cache Valley Media Group offices near the intersection of Utah State Routes 30 and
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. By day, KVNU is powered at 10,000
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s non-directional. At night, to protect other stations on
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from interference, it reduces power to 1,000 watts and switches to a
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. KVNU has a
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to boost its daytime power to 22,000 watts. The AM
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is off West 3800 South in Benson, Utah, near the Little Bear River.Radio-Locator.com/KVNU
/ref> Programming is also heard on
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s at 102.1
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in Wellsville, 102.5 MHz in Smithfield, 98.3 in Tremonton, Utah and 93.5 in Laketown, Utah.


Translators

In addition to the main station, KVNU is relayed by two
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s to widen its coverage area.


Notes


External links

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KVNU's "For the People" blog
* * * * {{News/Talk Radio Stations in Utah VNU Radio stations established in 1938 1938 establishments in Utah News and talk radio stations in the United States