| City of license | Spokane, Washington |
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| Broadcast area | Spokane area |
| Slogan | Newstalk 590 |
| Frequency | 590 kHz(also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | February 28, 1922 (in Seattle; moved to Spokane on October 30, 1925) |
| Format | News Talk Information |
| Audience share | 3.4, #12 (Fa'07, R&R[1]) |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 60421 |
| Former callsigns | KHQ (1922-1985) KLSN (1985-1986) KAQQ (1986-2002) |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications (Capstar TX) |
| Website | newstalk590.com |
KQNT is a news-talk radio station in Spokane, Washington, United States, that offers a mix of news and syndicated talk fare. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications and features programing from Fox News Radio and Premiere Radio Networks.[2]
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590 KQNT offers a variety of talk radio programs, including Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Glenn Beck, and Coast to Coast AM, all shows distributed by Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks. KQNT also airs a live local morning show from 5-9am. KQNT receives its hourly news updates from Fox News and local news, traffic, and weather updates from KREM, Spokane's CBS TV affiliate.
The station began on February 28, 1922 as KHQ, broadcasting from Seattle and owned by Louis Wasmer.[3] After broadcasting in Seattle for two years, Wasmer then moved the station to Spokane in the summer of 1925.[4][5] After the necessary preparations, KHQ went on the air with great fanfare in Spokane from the Davenport Hotel on October 30, 1925.[6][7][8] KHQ was Spokane's fourth radio station. According to the original Federal Radio Commission broadcast license records, radio stations KFZ, KOE, and KFIO (antecedent of the current KSBN) were on the air in Spokane before KHQ signed on in Spokane on October 30, 1925.
Wasmer moved the station's studios and office across Post Street from the Davenport Hotel to the seventh floor of Spokane Stock Exchange Building (also called the Eilers Building) in 1928 because the fledgling station had outgrown its quarters in the hotel.[9] KGA later joined KHQ in the building and the building was subsequently renamed the Radio Central Building. [10]
After the Second World War, Cowles Publishing Company, publisher of The Spokesman-Review newspaper, bought KHQ and used it to launch an FM station (now KISC) and a television station (which still bears the KHQ-TV calls). KHQ stayed in the Radio Central Building until 1960 when it moved to a modern facility next to its transmitter site on South Regal on the Moran Prairie.[11]
Cowles sold off its radio interests in 1984; on New Year's Day 1985, AM 590 changed its calls to KLSN. On December 12, 1986; the station changed its call sign to KAQQ, and on New Year's Day 2002 to the current KQNT.[12]
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