KGME

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KGME

City of license	Phoenix, Arizona
Broadcast area	Phoenix, Arizona
Branding	XTRA Sports 910
Slogan	The Valley's Sports Leader
Frequency	910 (kHz)
Format	Sports Talk
Power	5,000 watts
Class	B
Callsign meaning	GaME
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Website	www.xtrasports910.com

KGME, branded XTRA Sports 910, is a sports talk radio station broadcasting out of Phoenix, Arizona. KGME is owned by Clear Channel Communications, the former owners of Mexican station XETRA in Southern California, where the XTRA name came from.

The stations weekday lineup consist of local personalities Bickley and MJ (6am-10am) and Gambo and Ash (1pm-6pm). Jim Rome (10am-1pm) headlines middays, with Fox Sports Radio. The station also airs The Wall Street Journal This Morning from 5am-6am. Weekends consist of mostly Fox Sports programming, including the national show hosted by KGME's sister station KFYI's local morning talk show host, Bruce Jacobs.

Currently, the station has no local home team play-by-play coverage. For some years in the 2000s, it carried Arizona State University sports events, but the Sun Devils moved to KMVP in 2005.

[edit] History

910 was originally KPHO (now the call letters of the Phoenix CBS TV affiliate), operating on 1230 from 1940-1949; the station moved to 910 in 1949. In 1971, it changed call letters to KJJJ as "Big Country KJ" until 1986, when it would become KFYI, being purchased by Fred Weber's Broadcast Group.

KFYI would implement a talk format. Over the years, it was the home to hosts that would go on to greater success, such as Tom Leykis. In 1999, Broadcast Group sold to AMFM, formerly Chancellor. On January 1, 2000, after AMFM merged with Clear Channel Communications, KFYI would move to 550, swapping frequencies with what is now KGME.