KSUN
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KSUN (1400 AM) is a Spanish-language radio station broadcasting out of Phoenix, Arizona, and serving the Phoenix metropolitan area. It is locally owned by the Marques brothers and operates a regional Mexican music format under the branding "La Mejor". The station simulcasts on translator at K293CO 106.5 FM. The station is also the Spanish-language play-by-play home of Phoenix Suns basketball games and Phoenix Rising FC soccer matches.
History
The station signed on August 28, 1954, as KONI, the ninth radio station in Phoenix;[1] originally KBLR, the station's callsign changed by the time it signed on. KONI became KXIV in 1961. Until 1982, KXIV was programmed with a middle of the road (MOR) music format. The station was co-owned by Ira Lavin and actor Dick Van Dyke (an Arizona resident).[2][3] Disc jockeys included George Scott, Jack Dey, Jim Hutton, Paul B. Mundt, and Jim Spero (who also served as program director).[4]
Van Dyke and Lavin sold KXIV in 1982 to local real estate developer Michael Levin, who relaunched the station with a news/talk format as KSUN, featuring personalities from ABC's TalkRadio Network, NBC's Talknet and audio from CNN2.[5] The call letters had been sold to Levin by the previous KSUN in Bisbee, at the time silent and in receivership.[6] Hourly discount auctions through a segment called "BarterBank" were also heavily advertised. Levin's tenure running KSUN was marred by suspicious vandalism[7] and layoffs.[8] The station fell into bankruptcy and went silent on Memorial Day weekend 1983.Template:R
CAZ Broadcasting bought KSUN out of bankruptcy in 1984[9] and brought the station back the next year as an affiliate of the original Radio AAHS, a radio service developed for children, with adult-oriented music at night.[10] By 1986, KSUN was running jazz full-time with minor league baseball play-by-play of the Phoenix Firebirds, having lost Radio AAHS when Children's Radio Network opted to cease distributing it outside of its owned-and-operated stations.[11] After an abortive attempt to sell the station to TransCom, owners of KLZI 99.9 FM,[12] and going silent again at the end of summer, Fiesta Radio purchased the station in November 1986.[13] Radio Fiesta officially signed on March 23, 1987.[14] The station became a sports play-by-play specialist; it was the long-time home of Spanish broadcasts of the Arizona Diamondbacks (now on KHOV), first carrying all 162 games in 2004,[15] and continues to carry Suns games. In 2021, the station will broadcast Phoenix Rising FC games.[16]
In 2015, the station partnered with Mexican radio company MVS Radio to launch its regional Mexican La Mejor format in Phoenix.
References
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- ↑ "Ownership changes", Broadcasting. August 23, 1965. p. 84. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
- ↑ "Changing Hands", Broadcasting. July 5, 1982. p. 69. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
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External links
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- KSUN in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- FCC History Cards for KSUN
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