KNOX-AM

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KNOX (AM)
City of license	Grand Forks, North Dakota
Broadcast area	Red River Valley
Branding	Talk Radio 1310 KNOX
First air date	1949
Frequency	1310 AM (kHz)
Format	News/Talk/Sports
Power	5,000 watts
Affiliations	ABC, SNR
Owner	Leighton Broadcasting
Website	http://www.knoxradio.com/

KNOX is a news and talk radio station in Grand Forks, North Dakota broadcasting on 1310 AM. The station is the most popular AM radio station in the area. Its owner Leighton Broadcasting, also owns KCNN-AM, which also has a news and talk format. KNOX's news primarily focuses on local and regional current events, with local talk personalities, while KCNN's focuses on national and world news with syndicated talk shows. KNOX also carries ABC Radio news updates and the Sporting News Radio network throughout the overnight hours. The station broadcasts local high school hockey, football, and basketball games on occasion, and also Minnesota Timberwolves basketball and Minnesota Wild hockey games.

Leighton Broadcasting also owns KCNN 1590 (News/Talk), KNOX-FM 94.7 (Classic country), KYCK 97.1 (Country), and KZLT 104.3 (Adult contemporary) in Grand Forks.

[edit] History

KNOX signed on in 1949 with a full service format blending music, news, talk, and radio dramas. It later became a Top 40 station, and changed to a mainly News/Talk format in the 1980s. Co-owned station KCNN was the former home of "Hot Talk" until Scott Hennen was promoted for a talk-show host job on WDAY-AM in Fargo, North Dakota. "Hot Talk" became replaced with "Mac Talk" with Mike McNamara on KNOX, who was stationed in Iraq as a Marine until August 2006.

[edit] Programming

Monday-Friday

• KNOX Morning Show with Jim Bollman (6-9am)
• Mac Talk with Mike McNamara (9am-Noon)
• The KNOX Noon Hour (Noon-12:30pm)
• The KNOX Roundtable (12:30-1pm)
• The Afternoon Affair with Kerri and Denny (1-2pm)
• Voice of Dakota with Dakota Huseby (2-5pm)
• The KNOX News Hour (5-6pm)
• Sporting News Radio (6-9pm)
• Sports Byline USA with Ronn Barr (9pm-Midnight)
• Sporting News Radio (Midnight-6am)

Saturday¹

• Imagination Theater (7-8am)
• Twilight Zone (8-9am)
• Kim Komando (9am-Noon)
• Beer Radio (3-5pm)

Sunday¹

• The Sports Huddle With Sid and Dave (9:30am-Noon)

^{1 Sporting News Radio programming carried at all other times not listed}

[edit] External links

• KNOX website
• Leighton Broadcasting
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KNOX