| Broadcast area | Phoenix, Arizona |
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| Branding | 1480 KPHX |
| Slogan | "The Valley's Progressive Talk" |
| Frequency | 1480 kHz |
| First air date | late 1950s (as KHAT) |
| Format | Progressive Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 500 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 13790 |
| Callsign meaning | Phoenix |
| Owner | Continental Broadcasting Corp. of Arizona, Inc. |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 1480kphx.com |
KPHX (1480 AM) is a radio station that broadcasts in Phoenix, Arizona. During the day, it runs a directional 5,000 watts and 500 watts directional at night. The station currently broadcasts a Progressive Talk format.
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The station at 1480 AM signed on the air in the late 1950s as a daytime-only country station called KHAT. This format stayed in place until the early 1970s when it went all-news as KPHX, which only lasted about a year. Around 1974, KPHX became a Spanish language station, and remained one for approximately 30 years. By 1982, KPHX had started operating at night.
Starting in 2004, KPHX aired a syndicated all-comedy format which remained for nearly two years. KPHX flipped to an adult standards format in 2006, with the Music of Your Life network.
After KXXT (1010 kHz AM), the Phoenix affiliate of Air America Radio since the fall of 2004, was sold to a station group known as Communicom in January 2006, and as a result changed to a Christian radio format by March 2006, the progressive format disappeared from the Phoenix radio airwaves. In late March 2006, the owners of KPHX entered into a local marketing agreement with Sheldon Drobny's Nova M Radio thus bringing the Air America progressive/liberal talk format to KPHX.
On January 1, 2009, KPHX switched to a Adult standards format as "The Lounge Sound". Brad Chambers, the man behind KPHX's new format, succeeded in getting the format back on the air after being "exiled" from the Fabulous 690 in Los Angeles for more than 2 years. Chambers, who had the morning show, "Martini in the Morning," continued The Lounge Sound format on the internet from his studios in North Hollywood, California, martiniinthemorning.com.
On July 6, 2009, KPHX discontinued the Lounge Sound and switched back to the progressive talk format. Mike Newcomb is hosting an afternoon drive program; the nationally broadcast programs of Randi Rhodes, Thom Hartmann, Bill Press, Stephanie Miller, Mike Malloy and Ed Schultz have also returned to the KPHX lineup.[1]
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