KNON

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KNON
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City of license Dallas, Texas
Broadcast area Dallas/Fort Worth
Slogan The Voice of the People
Frequency 89.3 MHz
First air date September 30, 1983
Format Community, Variety
ERP 55,000 watts
HAAT 259 meters
Class C1
Facility ID 601
Callsign meaning NON-Commercial
Former callsigns KCBI
Owner Agape Broadcasting
Webcast Listen Live
Website www.knon.org

KNON is a radio station transmitting on 89.3 FM and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. KNON (for NON-commercial) is a non-profit, listener-supported radio station, deriving its main source of income from on-air pledge drives and from underwriting or sponsorships by local small businesses. KNON went on air on August 6, 1983 with 10,000 watts of power. In March 1990, KNON raised it's power to 55,000 watts. The signal covers a radius of approximately 60 miles from Cedar Hill. It extends to McKinney, Hillsboro, Corsicana and from Ft. Worth to Greenville. In addition, a live web broadcast runs from the station's web site.

KNON is on the air 24 hours, seven days a week. The volunteer disc jockeys play their own music or conduct talk shows during specifically targeted programs to a variety of unique demographics.

KNON traces its beginning to KCHU, a non-commercial FM that went on air August 29, 1975. KCHU operated until September 1977, when it went off the air owing to financial shortfalls. The station remained silent through 1980, which was then a license renewal year in Texas (radio stations then operated on a three year license cycle). At the same time, Criswell Bible Institute (now Criswell College) operated KCBI-FM from a downtown Dallas rooftop with a power of 1,500 watts on 89.3. They aspired to raise power and height and to relocate to the Cedar Hill, Texas tower farm, and faced limitations. When they applied to take over the 90.9 spot of KCHU, a legal and FCC struggle ensued. The end result was a swap of frequencies, a settlement of litigation, and the return of KCHU, now renamed KNON, to the air.

KNON went on air in 1983 from a site in West Dallas known as Chalk Hill. They moved to a Cedar Hill antenna -- 55,000 watts at 850 feet above average terrain using a fairly directional antenna vs. a typical 100,000 watts at 1,600 feet (non-directional) of other stations.

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