KYKN
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KYKN (1430 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Keizer, Oregon, and serving the Salem area. It airs a talk radio format with conservative programming and is owned by the Willamette Broadcasting Company. Initially incorporated in 1991 by Michael Frith, its current owner-operator is Jeff Morgan. The studios are on Cherry Avenue NE in Keizer. KYKN is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional. To protect other stations on 1430 AM from interference, at night it uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array. The transmitter is on Cordon Road SE at State Street in Four Corners, Oregon.
KYKN (1430 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Keizer, Oregon, and serving the Salem area. It airs a talk radio format with conservative programming and is owned by the Willamette Broadcasting Company. Initially incorporated in 1991 by Michael Frith, its current owner-operator is Jeff Morgan. The studios are on Cherry Avenue NE in Keizer. KYKN is powered at 5,000 watts non-directional. To protect other stations on 1430 AM from interference, at night it uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array. The transmitter is on Cordon Road SE at State Street in Four Corners, Oregon.
Programming
Most of KYKN's programming is nationally syndicated talk shows with an hour of local talk and news at noon on weekdays. Local hosts include Mike Allegre, Jake Atsma, Warren Franklin, Charlie McGuire, Hunter Newton, and Denise Quinn. National hosts include Glenn Beck, Larry Elder, Sebastian Gorka, Lee Habeeb, Hugh Hewitt, Charlie Kirk, Bill O'Reilly, Joe Pags, Dennis Prager, Todd Starnes, and Chris Stigall. Weekend specialty shows focus on travel, law, technology, guns, car repair, and the outdoors. Weekend hosts include Kim Komando, Rudy Maxa, and Erick Erickson. Most hours begin with an update from Townhall News. In autumn, sports programming includes local high school football. KYKN is also the Salem affiliate for the Seattle Mariners, as well as for football and basketball at the University of Oregon.
History
KGAE
This station began broadcasting in 1951 as KGAE. It had 1,000 watts of power as a daytime-only station. The original call sign was KGAE and its city of license was Salem, Oregon. It was owned by a partnership known as Allen, Truhan, & Clark, with partner W. Gordon serving as president and general manager. This partnership would be soon dissolved leading to a now-oft cited court case that went all the way to the Oregon Supreme Court. As a result, Allen took control of the stations in 1952 with the broadcast license transferred to a new company called KGAE, Inc. Allen remained president but Hal Davis took over the general manager duties.
KYKN
In April 1985, the station applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to make major changes to its licensed operation. It wanted to add nighttime service with 5,000 watts of power, add a directional antenna array to the new nighttime signal, and change the legal community of license from Salem to nearby Keizer, Oregon. The FCC granted a new construction permit to authorize these changes on September 18, 1985, and, after one extension, the station received its license to cover these changes on January 16, 1987. While these changes were underway, the station was assigned the KYKN call sign by the FCC on May 15, 1986. The station slogan was "Kickin Country". The station remained a country music format until it switched to news/talk in the spring of 1991. After 37 years of being a country station and Oregon's first full time country station, DJ Tim O'Brian (Tim Hay) signed off the country music format with "The Last Cowboy Song" by Ed Bruce on Sunday, May 5, 1991, at midnight. The station signed on at 6:00 am Monday, broadcasting CNN Headline News. In April 1991, Capitol Equities Corporation reached an agreement to sell KYKN to Willamette Broadcasting Company, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on August 1, 1991, and the transaction was consummated on September 18, 1991.
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