City of license | Lawrence, Kansas |
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Branding | News & Talk of Lawrence |
Frequency | 1320 kHz |
First air date | February 22, 1951 |
Format | News Talk Information |
ERP | 250 watts |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 36744 |
Affiliations | Fox News Radio, Westwood One, Jayhawk IMG Sports Network |
Owner | Great Plains Media, Inc. |
Website | klwn.com |
KLWN (1320 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, USA. The station is currently owned by Great Plains Media, Inc. and features programing from Fox News Radio and Westwood One.[1]
The station also broadcasts University of Kansas football and basketball. KLWN is the flagship radio station of the Jayhawk IMG Sports Network.
KLWN's FM counterpart is KLZR, which used to have the KLWN call letters and identified itself as "The Music Station, 106."
The stations were owned for years by Arden Booth, who also served as a Kansas State Senator. Booth had a five-minute daily poetry program called "Poetic License." His son Hank served as General Manager, morning news anchor and play-by-play voice of Lawrence High School football games.