KXGN (1400

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) is an

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station in

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, United States. The station is owned by Andrew Sturlaugson's P&A Media, along with KDZN. KXGN signed on in 1948.

History

Lewis Wiles Moore was granted a

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for a new station on 1400 kHz in Glendive in July 1948; the station, which took the

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KXGN, went on the air September 23. In 1954, the license was transferred to the Glendive Broadcasting Corporation; Moore retained 99 percent of the new company, with Mary L. Moore and Elizabeth Kinsfater each holding a 0.05-percent interest. A television sister station,

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(channel 5), was added in 1957. Stephen A. Marks, owner of

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, bought KXGN and KXGN-TV from Lewis Moore in 1989. The sale required a waiver of

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(FCC) regulations that prohibited common ownership of radio and television stations, which was granted in May 1990; by then, Moore had retired to

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. Marks added an FM station, KDZN, to the group in 1995; by this point, KXGN radio was losing money and was being supported by revenues from KXGN-TV. Stephen Marks died on May 11, 2022. Andrew Sturlaugson's P&A Media acquired Marks' Montana and North Dakota radio stations, including KXGN and KDZN, for $850,000 in 2024; Sturlaugson had been the Glendive stations' operations manager. The sale separated the radio stations from KXGN-TV, which the Marks estate retained.

Programming

KXGN broadcasts a mix of

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and

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with local news from KXGN and national news from

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. Ranch, farm and other agriculture-oriented news is also offered on KXGN, as Glendive is a large farming community. High school sports including Dawson County High School football, boys and girls basketball, volleyball and softball are heard on KXGN. The station also airs local American Legion,

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and Little League baseball games in the summer. KXGN also airs games featuring the teams from

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in Glendive and football and basketball games from the

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in Missoula.

References

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