KVOX (AM)

Infobox Radio station
name = KVOX


city = Fargo, North Dakota
area = Fargo-Moorhead
branding = 740 The Fan
slogan =
airdate = November 13, 2006
frequency = 740 AM (kHz)
format = Commercial; Sports
power = 50,000 watts (day)
7,500 watts (critical hours)
940 watts (night)
erp =
class = B
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
owner = James Ingstad
licensee = Radio Fargo-Moorhead, Inc.
webcast = [http://asx.abacast.com/radiofm-kvoxam-64.asx Listen Live!]
sister_stations = KBVB, KFGO, KMJO, KRWK, WDAY-FM
website = [http://www.740thefan.com/ www.740thefan.com]
affiliations = KFAN
Fox Sports Radio

KVOX (740 AM, "740 The Fan") is a radio station broadcasting a sports radio format. The station serves the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in 2006 as KKAG with test tones and classic country music. The station is currently owned by James Ingstad's Radio Fargo-Moorhead, Inc.

History

First known as KKAG, 740 AM signed on testing its signal on November 13, 2006 with open carriers and test tones. The station became fully licensed by the FCC on May 28, 2007 originally owned by Jeffrey Dress of Kennewick, Washington, and had been on the air since with a classic country format. KVOX-AM has the fifth largest daytime coverage area in the United States [http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=168467] .

Although the radio industry already had speculated so, KKAG was originally planned to be operated by the late Robert Ingstad, but the project was put on the back burner when Robert Ingstad's brother, James Ingstad, purchased the Clear Channel radio station group of Fargo in January 2007.

On Monday, June 11, 2007, it was announced that Radio Fargo-Moorhead, owned by James Ingstad, planned to buy KKAG from Jeffrey Dress, and that it would broadcast the The Fan radio network. KVOX on 1280 AM (now KVXR), former home of The Fan, is now a Catholic radio station owned by Voice of Reason radio. The official sale to Ingstad was approved on August 3, 2007. KKAG began simulcasting KVOX on August 14, 2007. This transitional arrangement is made to get listeners of 1280 used to "The Fan" being on 740. On September 14, 2007, KKAG changed its call letters to KVOX, and the former KVOX (1280 AM) switched to KVXR.

External links

* [http://www.740thefan.com/ 740 The Fan]
*AM station data|KVOX