KQNT

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KQNT

City of license	Spokane, Washington
Broadcast area	Spokane area
Slogan	590 KQNT
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
Transmitter coordinates	47°36′55.00″N 117°14′57.00″W / 47.6152778°N 117.2491667°W / 47.6152778; -117.2491667
Callsign meaning	K(H)Q News Talk
Former callsigns	KHQ (1922-1985) KLSN (1985-1986) KAQQ (1986-2002)
Affiliations	Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks
Owner	Clear Channel Communications (Capstar TX)
Webcast	Listen Live
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]

Programs

590 KQNT offers a variety of talk radio programs, including Rush Limbaugh, Dave Ramsey, Glenn Beck, America Now with Andy Dean, and Coast to Coast AM, all shows distributed by Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks. KQNT also airs a live local morning show from 5-9 a.m. KQNT receives its hourly news updates from Fox News and local news, traffic, and weather updates from KREM, Spokane's CBS TV affiliate.

History

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]

References

↑ "Spokane Market Ratings". Radio and Records.
↑ "KQNT Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ Philco Bill || KHQ
↑ Fahey, John. "Louis Wasmer's Aerial Act." Publishing information not known.
↑ Richardson, David. Puget Sounds - A Nostalgic Review of Radio and TV in the Great Northwest. 1981. Superior Publishers, Seattle, Washington.
↑ KHQ Goes On Air Here." Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, 30 October 1925.
↑ "KHQ's Inaugural Broadcast". Spokane Radio History, philcobill.com.
↑ Ceremonies Will Mark Opening of New Radio Plant." Spokane Chronicle, Spokane, Washington, 30 October 1925.
↑ "KHQ Will Move Radio Studios." Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. 1928-05-02.
↑ "KHQ in the Radio Central Building". Spokane Radio History, philcobill.com.
↑ KHQ Radio Broadcasting Station Licenses from 1934 to 1937. Federal Communications Commission. Washington, DC. From the National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
↑ "KQNT Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KQNT

Radio-Locator Information on KQNT

v t e Spokane radio stations

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.1 89.5 89.9 90.3 90.7 91.1 91.5 91.9 91.9 92.1 92.3 92.5 92.9 93.7 94.5 95.3 96.1 96.9 97.3 98.1 98.9 99.9 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.3 103.1 103.9 104.5 104.9 105.7 106.5 107.1 107.9

By AM frequency	590 630 700 790 920 970 1050 1080 1230 1280 1330 1510

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400

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Defunct	KWRS

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