KESN
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| City of license | Allen, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex/Ardmore/ Durant/Sherman/Gainesville |
| Branding | "103.3 FM ESPN" |
| Slogan | "First for Sports" |
| Frequency | 103.3 MHz (Also on HD Radio) 103.3 HD-2 for simulcast of KNIT (ESPN Deportes) |
| First air date | Early 1990s as KEMM |
| Format | Sports |
| ERP | 98,000 watts |
| HAAT | 606 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 58265 |
| Callsign meaning | ESPN |
| Former callsigns | KEMM (early 1990s-2001) |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio Dallas Mavericks (NBA) Texas Christian University |
| Owner | Disney/ABC Radio (KESN Assets, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KMKI, KNIT |
| Webcast | KESN Live Feed |
| Website | espn1033.com |
KESN is a Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas based sports talk radio station. It is owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company as an ESPN Radio affiliate.
[edit] History
From 1983-2000, 103.3 FM for Dallas/Fort Worth was licensed out of Greenville, Texas, and held the call letters KEMM. The station then ran a country music format. KEMM went dark on September 28, 2000. The license city and tower were moved to Allen, Texas in 2001 and the station was re-born on April 27, 2001 as KESN with the new all-sports format. Fourteen outlying stations were rearranged and relocated to make way for this frequency to beam into DFW, all at ABC/Disney's expense.
KESN is the flagship for Dallas Mavericks basketball and Texas Christian University football and men's basketball. Among its most notable local programs is Galloway and Company, hosted by Randy Galloway.
Despite different owners and a merger of ABC Radio Networks to Citadel Broadcasting; KESN, WBAP-AM, and WFAA-TV maintain a strong partnership (as WFAA is the local ABC television affiliate). Matter in fact, in 2006, "103.3 ESPN" welcomed WFAA-TV personality Dale Hansen, former Dallas Cowboys radio analyst and host on rival station KTCK, to the station. KTCK is now the Cowboys' flagship station and many speculated that Hansen leaving KTCK for KESN was due to his criticism of the team, though the official explanation was that Hansen's ratings did not justify his salary request.
Share ratings for KESN's primary shows lag behind that of KTCK, Sportsradio 1310, "The Ticket," their chief sports-talk radio rival in the Dallas/Fort Worth market [1] In current ratings books, KESN has had many more cume listeners than KTCK.
Its new sister station KNIT, which airs Spanish language sports programming, can be heard on 1480 AM and 103.3 HD-2 (HD Radio needed). [2]
103.3 FM ESPN's Line-Up 6:00AM- 9:00AM- Mike and Mike in the morning 9:00AM- 11:00AM- Colin Cowherd 11:00AM- 2:00PM- The Michael Irvin Show with Hall of Famer Michael Irvin and Kevin Kiley 2:00PM- 6:00PM- Galloway and Co. 6:00PM- 7:00PM- The Hour of Hansen
 ESPN 103.3 logo used from 2001 to 2005. |
[edit] External links
- ESPN 103.3 Official Site
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KESN
- Radio Locator information on KESN
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KESN
- KESN is at coordinates Coordinates:
- Mike Shannon's Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and TV History
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