KQNT

Infobox Radio station
name = KQNT


city = Spokane, Washington
area =
branding =
slogan = "Newstalk 590"
frequency = 590 kHzHD Radio
airdate =
share = 3.4, #12
share as of = Fa'07
share source = R&R [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Spokane Market Ratings | date= | url=http://www.radioandrecords.com/RRRatings/DetailsPage.aspx?MID=243&RY=2007&RQ=4&MP=0&OTHER=2&MN=Spokane&MS=WA&MR=92&12P=502600&UP=1/29/2008&SU=CM&BPER=&HPER=&OPER=&NSD=5/9/2008&CE=0
work =Radio and Records | pages = | date = | language = ]
format = News Talk Information
power = 5,000 watts
erp =
haat =
class = B
facility_id = 60421
coordinates = coord|47|36|55.00|N|117|14|57.00|W|region:US_type:city
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = KHQ Seattle (1922-1925) KHQ Spokane (1925-1985)
KLSN (1985-1986)
KAQQ (1986-2002)
owner = Clear Channel Communications
licensee = Capstar TX
sister_stations =
webcast =
website = [http://www.newstalk590.com newstalk590.com]
affiliations = Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks

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. [ cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KQNT |title=KQNT Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ]

Programs

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 KHQ, Spokane's NBC TV affiliate.

History

KQNT's first predecessor was KHQ. Before it came to Spokane, KHQ was founded in Seattle, Washington by Louis Wasmer when he obtained a license for the station on 1922-02-28. [KHQ License Record, Description of Apparatus, and Schedule of Station and Apparatus. 28 February 1922. Commission of Navigation, Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. Copied from the National Archives, RG Number 173.] [List of stations broadcasting market or weather reports (485 m) and music, concerts, lectures, etc. (360 m) 10 March 1922." Radio Service Bulletin, number 59, pages 23-25. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. 1 March 1922. Photocopies of the original are available at the Federal Communications Commission web site - www.fcc.gov] After broadcasting in Seattle for two years, Wasmer then moved the station to Spokane in the summer of 1925. [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.] After the necessary preparations, KHQ went on the air with great fanfare in Spokane from the Davenport Hotel on 1925-10-30. [KHQ Goes On Air Here." Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, 30 October 1925.] [ cite web|url=http://spokaneradio.philcobill.com/khq/KHQFirstSpokane.php |title=KHQ's Inaugural Broadcast |work=Spokane Radio History, philcobill.com] [Ceremonies Will Mark Opening of New Radio Plant." Spokane Chronicle, Spokane, Washington, 30 October 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. ["KHQ Will Move Radio Studios." Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. 1928-05-02.] Radio station KGA later joined KHQ in the building and the building was subsequently renamed the Radio Central Building. [ cite web|url=http://towers.philcobill.com/wa/spok/khq-rcb/ |title=KHQ in the Radio Central Building |work=Spokane Radio History, philcobill.com]

After the Second World War, Cowles Publishing Company bought KHQ. 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. [KHQ Radio Broadcasting Station Licenses from 1934 to 1937. Federal Communications Commission. Washington, DC. From the National Archives, College Park, Maryland.]

KHQ left the air and became KLSN on 1985-01-01. On 1986-12-01, the station changed its call sign to KAQQ, and on 2002-01-01 to the current KQNT. [ cite web|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=60421&Callsign=KQNT |title=KQNT Call Sign History |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ]

References

External links

* [http://spokaneradio.philcobill.com/khq/index.php Philco Bill's History of KHQ Radio]
* [http://spokanetowers.philcobill.com/index.php Philco Bill's Spokane Radio Tower Page]
* [http://www.newstalk590.com News/Talk 590's website]
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