KZNU
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| KZNU | |
| City of license | St. George, Utah |
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| Broadcast area | St. George |
| Slogan | Fox News 1450 |
| Frequency | 1450 kHz |
| First air date | 1956 (as KDXU) |
| Format | News Talk Information |
| Power | 1,000 watts unlimited |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 12325 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Former callsigns | KDXU (1956-1985) KATJ (1985-1987) KDLX (1987-1988) [KSGI]] (1988-1998) KTSP (1998-2001) |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio, Westwood One, ABC Radio |
| Owner | Canyon Media Corporation |
| Website | 1450newsradio.com |
KZNU (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to St. George, Utah, USA, the station serves the St. George area. The station is currently owned by Canyon Media Corporation and features programing from Fox News Radio, Westwood One and ABC Radio .[1]
The 1450 frequency was the home to [KDXU] from 1956 until 1985. In Sept. 1985 KDXU switched frequencies to 890 KHz and increased power to 10,000 watts.
KDXU broadcast engineer and local cable-TV owner Ray Carpenter who filed for a new radio station on 1450 granted by the FCC [2-20-1986] and became KATJ [Facility Id: 12325]. In November of 1986, former Bonneville International executives Joseph A. Kjar, Donald Bybee and Blaine W. Whipple purchased the station from Carpenter changing the call sign to KDLX on [1987-01-01]. Kjar, Whipple, and Bybee sold the station [11-16-1988] to Las Vegas broadcaster Jack London [Paul G. Maziar] who subsequently filed bankruptcy. London's partner in the purchase was veteran broadcast executive E. Morgan Skinner, Jr., a former Bonneville employee, who purchased the station from bankruptcy and changed the call sign to [KSGI] on [12-14-1988]. Skinner sold the station together with KZEZ(FM) 99.7MHz [Facility Id: 18140] which Skinner built with partner Lavon Randall to Simmons Media of St. George on [5-7-1998]. Simmons operated the station under an LMA changing the call sign to [KTSP] on [09-11-1998] and again to KZNU [11/12/2001]. Simmons was unsuccessful at getting FCC approval of the purchase resulting from multiple ownership issues and partnered with M. Kent Frandsen to organize Canyon Media Corporation of which Western Broadcasting, LLC (Simmons) retained a thirty-percent (30%) non-attributable interest. Canyon Media Corporation acquired KZNU(AM) 1450kHz, St. George, UT and KZEZ(FM) 99.7MHz, St. George, Utah on [05-24-2005].
[edit] References
- ^ KZNU Facility Record. United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KZNU
- Radio Locator Information on KZNU
- Query Arbitron's AM station database for KZNU
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