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KXTG (750 AM, "The Game") is a commercial radio station in Portland, Oregon. It airs a sports radio format and is owned by Alpha Media, a company headed by veteran radio executive Larry Wilson.[1] The studios are on SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland.
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| Broadcast area | Portland metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 750 kHz |
| Branding | 750 The Game |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports |
| Affiliations | BetQL Audio Network Infinity Sports Network Fox Sports Radio NFL on Westwood One Sports Portland Timbers |
| Ownership | |
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| KBFF, KINK, KUFO, KUPL, KXL-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | December 13, 1926 (as KXL) |
Former call signs | KXL (1926–2011)[2] |
Former frequencies | 749.6 kHz (1926–1927) 770 kHz (2/1927-6/1927) 1360 kHz (1927–1928) 1250 kHz (1928–1929) 1420 kHz (1929–1941) 1450 kHz (3/1941-10/1941) |
Call sign meaning | K X The Game |
| Technical information[3] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 948 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 50,000 watts days 20,000 watts nights |
Transmitter coordinates | 45°24′4.2″N 122°26′50.7″W / 45.401167°N 122.447417°W |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 750thegame.com |
By day, KXTG is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for AM radio stations. But 750 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WSB Atlanta. To avoid interference, KXTG reduces power at night to 20,000 watts using a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter is on SE Curtis Road in Damascus.
Programming
editKXTG is Portland's flagship home to the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer. It also carries the Seattle Mariners baseball and games in the NCAA March Madness.[4] It also served as home of the Portland Steel of the Arena Football League in 2016.
The Bald Faced Truth with host John Canzano airs weekday afternoons on KXTG. Canzano's show was the inaugural sports program when the station was launched on May 12, 2008. Among the first guests that first day were golfer Peter Jacobsen and former United States' President Barack Obama. Canzano hosts the only local show on the weekday schedule. In middays, two nationally syndicated programs are heard, The Dan Patrick Show and The Jim Rome Show. The rest of the day and on weekends, the station runs the Infinity Sports Network, with some programs from the BetQL Network.
History
editKXTG first began broadcasting on December 13, 1926.[5] The original call sign was KXL. By the 1930s, the station was heard on 1120 kilocycles, sharing time with KBPS, now on 1450 AM.[6]
KXL was bought by Alpha Broadcasting in 2009, along with a sister station, KXTG, on the FM band. That station first signed on as 95.5 KXL-FM in June 1965 with a long-running beautiful music format followed by adult contemporary. On March 26, 1999, KXL-FM became KXJM, with a successful Rhythmic contemporary format that lasted until May 12, 2008, when it switched formats to sports. The KXJM call letters, Rhythmic format, and all other intellectual property were acquired by CBS Radio and moved to 107.5 FM.
At 8:47 a.m. on March 15, 2011, KXL started simulcasting on 101.1 FM, replacing the Active rock format of KUFO. After two months of the KXL news/talk format being heard on both stations, at 4 p.m. on May 25, 2011, the 750 frequency switched from news/talk to sports, changing its branding to "750 The Game" (from KXTG 95.5). Thus, KXL's news/talk format is now exclusively on FM.[7]
On June 1, 2011, KXL changed call letters (after 85 years) to KXTG to match "The Game" branding.[2] The KXTG call letters and "The Game" sports format were recently at 95.5 FM (now KBFF). In 2013, KXTG switched affiliations from Fox Sports Radio to NBC Sports Radio. (Fox Sports Radio is now on 620 KPOJ.) In October 2015, KXTG switched affiliations from NBC Sports Radio to CBS Sports Radio.
In July 2014, KXTG began simulcasting on FM translator K274AR 102.7 FM. On December 19, 2014, K274AR upgraded from 10 watts at 102.7 FM to 99 watts at 102.9 FM. On February 3, 2015, K274AR changed call letters to K275CH.
In August 2019, KXTG would drop its simulcast on the 102.9 FM translator frequency, due to a format change.[8]
Ownership history
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From 1955 to 1998, KXL was owned by Les Smith; Rose City Radio, a company owned by Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen, bought it and KXTG from Smith in 1998 for a reported $42 million.[1] In May 2009, it was announced that Larry Wilson, the founder and former owner of Citadel Broadcasting, bought KXL and KXTG from Rose City for $11 million.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Wilson buys KXL and KXTG from Paul Allen". Portland Business Journal. August 31, 2009.
- ^ a b "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau. June 1, 2011. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KXTG". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ 750 The Game - Portland's Sports Radio
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page . Retrieved Nov. 21, 2024
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1935 page 50. Retrieved Nov. 21, 2024
- ^ "750 KXL Becomes the Game". 25 May 2011.
- ^ KXTG to Drop FM Simulcast Radioinsight -August 23, 2019
External links
edit- KXTG official website
- Facility details for Facility ID 948 (KXTG) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- KXTG in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for KXTG