KXNT (AM)
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| Broadcast area | Las Vegas Valley |
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| Frequency | 840 kHz |
| Branding | NewsRadio 840 AM KXNT |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Format | Talk radio |
| Affiliations | CBS News Radio Bloomberg Radio Premiere Networks The Weather Channel KVVU-TV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| History | |
First air date | 1986 |
Former call signs | KVEG (1986–96) |
Call sign meaning | K X News Talk |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 33068 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 50,000 watts (day) 25,000 watts (night) |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°23′53″N 114°54′57″W / 36.39806°N 114.91583°W |
| Repeater(s) | 94.1 KMXB-HD3 (Henderson) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (via Audacy) |
| Website | www |
KXNT (840 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. and carries a talk radio format.[2] The radio studios are located in the unincorporated Clark County area of Spring Valley, while KXNT's transmitter is located on U.S. Route 93 at Great Valley Parkway in North Las Vegas.[3]
KXNT is a Class B station operating on a clear channel frequency. WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky is the dominant Class A station on 840 AM, so KXNT must reduce its power at night to avoid interfering with WHAS's signal. KXNT operates at 50,000 watts by day and 25,000 watts at night. KXNT has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to the KXST transmitter site and decrease night power to 10,000 watts.[4]
KXNT is licensed to broadcast in the HD radio format.[5][6] It is also heard on the HD-3 digital subchannel of sister station KMXB.
Programming
KXNT airs mostly nationally syndicated talk shows. A local hour is hosted weekdays by Alan Stock at 8 a.m. The rest of the weekday schedule includes This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal; Glenn Beck; Ben Shapiro; Dana Loesch; Joe Pags; Dave Ramsey and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.
Weekends feature shows on money, politics, health, law, real estate, home repair and computers. Syndicated hosts include Kim Komando; Ben Ferguson; Larry Elder and Ric Edelman. Some hours feature paid brokered programming.
KXNT carries hourly reports CBS News Radio and financial reports from Bloomberg Radio. It has a local news alliance with KLAS-TV, the CBS Network affiliate in Las Vegas.
History
KXNT signed on the air in 1986 with the call letters KVEG, airing a talk and middle of the road music format. It was owned by the Roberts Communications Corp.[7]
KVEG had several noted hosts including Sam Greenfield, Dominick Brascia, Lou Epton, Irwin Schiff and the syndicated Tom Leykis. In 1997, KVEG changed its call letters to KXNT with the "NT" standing for "News/Talk." The station moved to a more traditional talk radio line up, airing Rush Limbaugh and Coast to Coast AM previously heard on rival station KDWN. Other shows included Dr. Laura and Bill Handel.
In 1998, Infinity Broadcasting acquired KXNT.[8] In December 2005, Infinity was merged into CBS Radio. On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom.[9] The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on November 17.[10][11]
Former FM simulcast
Between August 16, 2010 and September 4, 2015, programming on KXNT had been simulcast on sister FM station KXNT-FM (100.5 FM), to give listeners who prefer FM that option. That station now airs a rhythmic hot adult contemporary format, under the call sign KXQQ-FM.
Former hosts
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KXNT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "KXNT Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2010-08-17.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/KXNT
- ^ "FCC Construction Permit". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ "Station Search Details". licensing.fcc.gov.
- ^ http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=38 Archived 2016-09-14 at the Wayback Machine HD Radio Guide for Las Vegas
- ^ "Broadcasting Yearbook 1989 page B-187" (PDF).
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 2010 page D-353
- ^ "CBS Radio To Merge With Entercom". February 2, 2017.
- ^ "Entercom Receives FCC Approval for Merger with CBS Radio". Entercom. November 9, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ Venta, Lance (November 17, 2017). "Entercom Completes CBS Radio Merger". Radio Insight. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
External links
- Official website
- Facility details for Facility ID KXNT ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's AM station database