KGED

KGED
City	Fresno, California
Broadcast area	Fresno County
Frequency	1680 kHz
Programming
Format	Regional Mexican
Ownership
Owner	Compass Broadcasting, Inc.
History
First air date	2003 (as KAVT)
Former call signs	KAVT (1998-2008)
Technical information
Facility ID	87176
Class	B
Power	10,000 watts day; 1,000 watts night

KGED (1680 kHz) is an AM expanded band radio station in Fresno, California. It features a Regional Mexican format. The station is owned by Compass Broadcasting, Inc. The studios and offices are on West Olive Avenue in Fresno.

KGED broadcasts with 10,000 watts by day and 1,000 watts at night, using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is located off South Fowler Avenue, near East American Avenue, in Fowler, California, south of Fresno.[1]

Previous Talk Programming

KGED previously had local hosts on weekday afternoons. From the Salem Radio Network, KGED aired syndicated talk shows from Hugh Hewitt, Eric Metaxas, Larry Elder and Dennis Prager. Other syndicated shows heard on KGED include Dave Ramsey, Alex Jones and "America's Morning News" with Matt Ray. KGED carried college football and basketball from the Fresno Pacific Sunbirds. Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio. It also carried reports from the California News Network.

History

KGED got its Federal Communications Commission construction permit in 1998 to build a new radio station in Fresno. The original call sign was KAVT. The station signed on the air in 2003.[2] At its inception, the station was a Radio Disney Network affiliate, carrying its children's radio format, and was owned by the RAK Corporation. Starting in March 2008, the call letters switched to KGED, and it carried an Adult Standards format provided by Dial Global.

The standards format was replaced in September 2008 by a Spanish Christian radio format.[3]

In October 2011, KGED 1680 re-launched with a conservative talk radio format with mostly syndicated talk personalities from the Salem Radio Network.

On May 1, 2020 KGED's talk format moved to KXEX 1550 AM Fresno, and 1680 AM switched to regional Mexican.[4]

Call Sign History

In the 1970s and up through 1981, KGED was the call letters of a low power college FM radio station assigned to 88.1 MHz in Batesville, Arkansas. It was licensed to and located on the campus of Arkansas College, which is now known as Lyon College. The studio was located in the lower level of the Mabee-Simpson library building (in what is the Campus Safety office as of 2018) and the transmitter was located on the upper level of Brown Chapel with the broadcast antenna inside the steeple of the same chapel.

Broadcasting had been sporadic over the years and an attempt was made to revive operations in the Fall semester of 1981 by freshman station manager Kevin Manzer. However, operations finally ceased permanently later that same year when the transmitter failed and was deemed not repairable by the station engineer, Dick Treat.

References

Radio-Locator.com/KGED
Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010 page D-86
"KGED Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
Fresno Conservative Talker Moves To New Frequency Radioinsight - May 7, 2020

External links

KGED in the FCC's AM station database
KGED on Radio-Locator
KGED in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

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[1] Radio-Locator.com/KGED

[2] Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010 page D-86

[3] "KGED Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

[4] Fresno Conservative Talker Moves To New Frequency Radioinsight - May 7, 2020

Radio stations in the Fresno, California market
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By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.3 90.3 90.7 91.1 91.5 92.1 92.9 93.7 94.3 94.9 95.3 95.7 96.7 97.1 97.9 98.3 98.9 99.3 100.3 101.1 101.9 102.7 103.1 103.7 104.1 104.3 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.1 107.5 107.9
Digital radio by frequency & subchannel	102.7-1 102.7-2
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Defunct	KFVR – Crescent City KSKD – Livingston
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