| City of license | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| Broadcast area | Minneapolis-St. Paul |
| Frequency | 690 AM (kHz) |
| First air date | April 5, 1962 |
| Format | Commercial; World Ethnic, Hmong language |
| Power | 500 watts (day) 4 watts (night) |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 10141 |
| Callsign meaning | derived from former sister station KFAN |
| Former callsigns | KTCR (1962-1984) KTCJ (1984-1998) KXBR (1/1998-12/1998) |
| Owner | Minority Media and Telecommunications Council |
KFXN is a radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving the Twin Cities area. The station is owned by Minority Media and Telecommunications Council.
On July 21, 2010, former owner Clear Channel Communications announced it would donate the station through the MMTC-Clear Channel Ownership Diversity Initiative. In September 2011, the station switched to an ethnic-based format catering to the local Hmong community.[1]
KFXN is essentially a daytime-only station, broadcasting at 500 watts, though it does have a four watt signal during nighttime hours with very limited reach. This is likely to protect the Canadian clear-channel allocation in Montreal formerly occupied by CINF. The transmitter and three antennae are located in New Hope on Winnetka Avenue north of 36th Avenue. This has been the only transmitter location for the station since it signed on the air on April 5, 1962. In August, 2009, KHTC 96.3 FM relocated its transmission facilities from Watertown, MN to the KFXN site.
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The station signed on in 1962 with the KTCR call sign, and a country music format. In 1968, new owner Al Tedesco purchased a companion FM station, KWFM, renaming it KTCR-FM.
In 1983, both stations were sold, with KTCR-FM adopting an adult album alternative format. The next year, KTCR flipped to jazz as KTCJ to complement the new 'Cities 97'. The jazz format lasted several years and the station was among the early market adopters of AM stereo, but eventually ceded to a simulcast with its FM sister. On April 17, 1997, KTCJ, the sole remaining AM/FM simulcast in the market, switched to classic country music. Call letters were changed to KXBR the following January.
In December 1998, KXBR dumped country and became a counterpart to KFAN, airing repeats of KFAN's local shows as well as various syndicated fare as KFXN.
KFXN, also known as "Score 690", was sister station to sports-formatted KFAN. They aired a complementary sports talk format, which today consists mostly of syndicated shows from Fox Sports Radio and Sporting News Radio, as well as Jim Rome's nationally syndicated program.
With the divestiture and format change of KFXN, Clear Channel moved the sports format of "The Score" to the HD2 subchannel of KQQL, and will eventually air it on translator K278BP (103.5 FM).
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