KENO (1460

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owned by

Lotus Communications Lotus Communications Corporation is a media company that owns numerous radio stations and a few TV stations, and is one of the largest privately owned radio station groups in the United States. Headquarters are located in Los Angeles, and the comp ...

. Its studios are located in the unincorporated community of Spring Valley in Clark County and its transmitter is located northwest of downtown Las Vegas.

History

KENO, Las Vegas' first successful radio station, was founded in 1941 by Laura Belle and Maxwell Kelch. (John Heaton had operated KGIX from 1930 to 1935, but low power and limited hours made it unprofitable.) For much of its early history, KENO broadcast out of the

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. Southern Nevada's first radio show was called "Listen Ladies" and was hosted by Laura Belle Kelch. ''Listen Ladies'' provided home and household advice to women in the 1940s. The station played top 40 from the 1950s to the early 1980s, using the slogan "Music Radio 1460" in the 1960s and 70s. KENO also had an FM station at 92.3, until 1982 when it changed its

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to KOMP and began playing

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. KENO 1460 switched to AC/

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in the early 1980s and then went to the straight oldies format in the latter part of the decade around 1987 and 1988. The oldies format lasted until 1993. KENO was originally on 1370 kHz. Under the

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treaty of March, 1941 it moved to 1400 kHz. It moved to 1460 kHz in 1951. Prior to switching to Spanish, KENO was the Las Vegas affiliate of the

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Show. The station was the flagship station for the Las Vegas 51s, then the Class AAA affiliate of the

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. On March 3, 2008, the station changed its format to

ESPN Deportes Radio ESPN Deportes Radio was an American Spanish language sports radio network created and produced by Disney-owned ESPN. Programming included call-in talk shows and commentary from hosts about a full range of sporting events, including soccer, Ameri ...

, and the previous programming was moved to KBAD 920 kHz. KBAD's programming was moved to 1100 kHz,

KWWN KWWN (1100 AM) is a radio station licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. The station is owned by Lotus Communications. Programming includes the UNLV Rebels football and men's basketball teams, the Las Vegas Aces, ESPN Radio talk shows a ...

. After ESPN Deportes Radio shut down in 2019, its format continued to remain although the station was renamed to "Deportes Vegas". KENO is the flagship station for Spanish-language broadcasts of the

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of the

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. In 2017, an agreement was made for KENO to broadcast select Golden Knights games which made the Golden Knights the third team in the NHL to offer Spanish-language radio broadcasts. KENO is the flagship station for Spanish-language broadcasts of the

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of the

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. The station started carrying the games in 2020 and is the flagship for a group of eight stations across Nevada and California carrying Raider games in Spanish.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for KENO
{{TUDN Radio

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