KFYI

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This article is about the Phoenix radio station. For the Bay Area station known as KFYI in 1984-1985, see KDIA.

KFYI

City of license	Phoenix, Arizona
Broadcast area	Phoenix metropolitan area
Branding	Newstalk 550 KFYI
Slogan	The Valley's Talk Station
Frequency	550 kHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1921
Format	News/Talk
Power	5,000 watts daytime 1,000 watts nighttime
Class	B
Facility ID	63918
Transmitter coordinates	33°23′16″N 112°0′24″W / 33.38778°N 112.00667°W / 33.38778; -112.00667
Callsign meaning	For Your Information
Former callsigns	KOY (until 1999) KGME (1999-2000)
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Sister stations	KESZ, KGME, KMXP, KNIX, KOY, KYOT, KZZP
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	kfyi.com

KFYI (550 AM) is an American news/talk radio station broadcasting in Phoenix, Arizona. KFYI is owned by Clear Channel Communications. KFYI transmits in both analog AM and digital HD Radio.

The digital signal is also rebroadcast on KNIX-FM's HD2 channel.

Programming

KFYI's weekday lineup is approximately an even mix of local and syndicated programming. Local personalities heard on KFYI include Jim Sharpe, Barry Young, Mike Broomhead and former Mr. Universe Lance Dreher.

Former Congressman J. D. Hayworth resigned from the station in 2010 to run for the U.S. Senate against Senator John McCain. Hayworth lost.

The syndicated programming is similar to the standard Clear Channel news talk lineup and includes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Because of Arizona's time zone idiosyncracies (the state does not participate in daylight saving time), the syndicated programs air on a tape delay during the spring and summer months.

History

For decades AM 550 was the home of KOY. The station aired network programs in the pre-television era, then top 40 and from the 1980s, adult standards music. It was owned by Edens Broadcasting in the 1980s as the sister station to KOY-FM (Y95).

KFYI originated in 1985 on AM910, which had been the signal of KPHO radio (co-owned with channel 5, still called KPHO today as a CBS affiliate.) All-sports station KGME occupies AM910 today. The frequency switch took place in 2003. The call letters KFYI had been previously used by a station in Oakland, California, now KMKY.^[1]

KFYI signed on at 5:30am on July 10, 1985 with Morning Host Charlie Van Dyke, newsman Brad Messer and sports anchor Jim Jeffrey .

KFYI Host Barry Young served as the station's program director from 1988 until 1998. Joe Adams and Mark Jeffrey have been with the station since the beginning.

Controversy

On March 8, 2006 KFYI made news when fill-in host Brian James suggested that the United States National Guard and Border Patrol should shoot to kill people illegally crossing the US-Mexican border.^[2] He also stated on the air that he would be "happy to sit there with my high-powered rifle and my night scope" and kill people as they cross the border. Those remarks prompted Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard and U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton to complain to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), calling the remarks "irresponsible and dangerous".^[3]

References

External links

Official website

Query the FCC's AM station database for KFYI
Radio-Locator Information on KFYI
Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KFYI
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Aerial photo of KFYI transmitter from Google Maps

v t e Radio stations in the Phoenix metropolitan area

by FM frequency	88.3¹/88.3² 89.1 89.5 89.9 90.3 90.7 91.5 92.3 92.7 93.3 93.9 94.1 94.5 95.1 95.5 96.3 96.9 97.5 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.3 99.9 100.3 100.7 101.1 101.5 102.1 102.5 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.3 105.5 105.9 106.3 106.9 107.1 107.9

by AM frequency	550 620 710 740 860 910 960 1010 1060 1100 1150 1190 1230 1260 1280 1310 1330 1360 1400 1440 1480 1510 1540 1580 1640

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

by callsign	KAHM KAJM KASA KASC KAZG KBAQ KBMB KBSZ KCDX KCKY KDKB KDUS KDVA KEC94 KESZ KEXX KFLR KFNN KFNX KFYI KGME KHOT KHOV KIDR KIHP KJAG KJZZ KKFR KKNT KLNZ KLVA KLVK KMIK KMLE KMVA KMVP KMVP-FM KMXP KMZQ-FM KNAI¹/KPHF² KNIX KNRJ KNUV KOMR KOOL KOY KPHX KPXQ KQMR KRDE KSLX KSUN KSWG KTAR KTAR-FM KUPD KVIB KVIT KVVA KWSS-LP KXEG KXXT KYOT KZON KZZP

¹-Daytime hours ²-Nighttime hours (KNAI and KPHF are timeshare stations) Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 219 Sirius Channel 157 Arizona radio markets Flagstaff-Prescott Phoenix Tucson Other Arizona radio regions Kingman Lake Havasu City Nogales Yuma See also List of radio stations in Arizona

v t e News/Talk Radio Stations in the state of Arizona

Stations:	KAAA - Kingman KATO - Safford KAZM - Sedona KBLU - Yuma KBSZ - Apache Junction KBTK - Kachina Village KFNX - Cave Creek KFYI - Phoenix KNKI - Pinetop KNST - Tucson KNTR - Lake Havasu City KQTH - Tucson KTAR-FM - Glendale KVNA - Flagstaff KVWM - Show Low KYCA - Prescott KZZZ - Bullhead City

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Arizona

v t e Clear Channel Communications

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (CEO, CC Media Holdings, Inc.) John Hogan (Chairman/CEO, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays (Chairman) Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by Clear Channel

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