KNGN
Radio station in McCook, Nebraska
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KNGN (1360 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious music format.[2] It is licensed to McCook, Nebraska and owned by My Bridge.[3]
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| Frequency | 1360 kHz |
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| Programming | |
| Format | Religious |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | My Bridge |
| History | |
First air date | June 23, 1961 |
Former call signs | KWRV (1961–1966) KICX (1966–1990) |
Call sign meaning | Kansas Nebraska Good News |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 65925 |
| Class | D |
| Power | 1,000 watts day |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°11′45″N 100°41′57″W |
| Translators | K252FV (98.3 MHz, McCook) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | http://www.kngn.org/ |
History
Secular programming
KWRV signed on the air on June 23, 1961.[4] It was owned by the Regional Broadcasting Corporation and maintained studios on Norris Street in McCook.[5] KWRV was knocked off the air for two hours one day in May 1962 when a snake pursued a mouse into its transmitter.[6]
KWRV was sold in 1966 to Semeco Broadcasting Corporation—named for principals Walter E. Sehnert, Vernon A. Meints, and KWRV general sales manager W. O. Corrick—for $91,000.[7] The new owners changed the station's call letters to KICX effective May 19, 1966.[5] The station maintained a middle-of-the-road music format and affiliations with the ABC Information and Intermountain networks.[4] KICX's programming began to be simulcast on KICX-FM 95.9 when that station signed on January 31, 1979.[8]
Change to religion
Semeco, now owned by Corrick's estate, sold KICX-AM-FM to Ron Crowe and Associates for $200,000 in 1989.[9] In order to buy another McCook station, KSWN, Crowe had to spin off a station, and he chose to donate KICX AM to the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.[10] The station relaunched as KNGN, for "Kansas Nebraska Good News", on April 8, 1990.[11] Locally, the station was operated by Peace Lutheran Church and relied heavily on programming from the synod's KFUO in St. Louis.[12]
However, as time went on, the synod could no longer afford to continue running the station. As a result, in 2001, the station's license was transferred to the locally based Kansas Nebraska Good News Broadcasting Corporation.[13] The station also relocated from its original studios at Peace Lutheran to a larger facility at a former country school in McCook.[13]
In 2018, the station added an FM translator, K252FV on 98.3 MHz. The new translator enabled the station to go 24-hours for the first time in its history.[13]
On August 2, 2022, the station's owners filed to transfer the broadcast license to MyBridge Radio.[14] The sale, which included translator K252FV, was consummated on May 22, 2023 at a price of $40,000.
