| City of license | Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex |
| Branding | Heaven 97 |
| Slogan | "Taking You Higher in Praise." |
| Frequency | 970 kHz |
| First air date | 1946 as KWBC |
| Format | Urban Contemporary Gospel |
| Power | 1,000 watts daytime 270 watts nighttime |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | HeaVeN |
| Former callsigns | KWBC (1946–1953), KNOK (1953–1982), KSAX (1982–1985) |
| Owner | Mortenson Broadcasting (Mortenson Broadcasting Co. of Texas, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KGGR, K273BJ, KKGM, KRVA, KTNO |
| Website | khvnam.com |
KHVN is an AM urban contemporary gospel radio station that serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The station has had its gospel format since 1985, and is owned by Mortenson Broadcasting. It is the sister station to daytimer KGGR. The station is licensed in Fort Worth, Texas, but KHVN has applied to move its broadcasting activities to Bedford.
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This station started out as Daytimer KWBC in 1946 with a Variety/Ethnic format that comprises mostly local, amateur, and public service programming under the ownership of Associated Broadcasters.
In 1950, J. Dean McClain joined the station with his hour-long "Blues at Sunrise". program. By the late 1950s McClain was program director, and later was station manager and general manager.[1]
By 1953, most commercial billings were from Ethnic shows, so their owners reimaged the station as KNOK to serve an African American audience.
By 1954, KNOK changed the format to R&B with Country and Spanish language programming on weekends. After 1957, KNOK became a full time R&B station and was the first station in the DFW area to exclusively do so. From that time period to 1979, it simulcasted to its FM sister station of the same callsign. In 1979, KNOK transferred its R&B format to KNOK-FM and changed its format to Jazz. Three years later, the station was renamed as KSAX (callsign to have stood for SAXophone) while maintaining its Jazz format before making its final switch to a Black Gospel formatted station as KHVN in 1985.
There have been rumors that KHVN 970 would be scheduled to go dark by New Year's Eve 2007 as part of the FCC's dial expansion program of 1989, in exchange for a frequency with a full day/night schedule on KKGM 1630. This move was scheduled for 1998 but Infinity/CBS Radio sold the frequency. Since Mortenson owns 970 and 1630, the divesting could feasibly still happen. As of 2010, it has not taken place.
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