KMTT (910
AM) is a commercial
radio station
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licensed to
Vancouver, Washington
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, broadcasting to the
Portland, Oregon
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and
Clark County, Washington
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. KMTT is owned by
Audacy, Inc.
Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968 as Entercom Communications Corporation, it is the second largest radio company in the United States, owning 235 radio stations across 48 media ...
and airs a
sports
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format with programming from
ESPN Radio
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. The studios are located south of downtown Portland, and the transmitter site is in the city's northeast side along the Columbia River.
History
Prior use of 910 kHz in Vancouver
The 910 AM frequency was signed on the air in 1939 as KVAN, airing a country music format in the 1950s. After being sold to the
Star Stations group in 1959, KVAN began
stunting with a loop of "Teenage Bill of Rights" by Robby John and the Seven-Teens for a full day on April 30, 1959, before the station relaunched as a
Top 40
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station with their call-letters changed to KISN a day later on May 1, 1959, which was at times Portland's most listened-to station in the 1960s. A scandal involving political bias and a litany of indiscretions resulted in the FCC revoking the licenses of all five Star Stations, including KISN, in 1975; the stations left the air on September 2, 1976.
New licenses
After the FCC revoked the KISN license, four applications were received for the vacated frequency, from Rose Broadcasting, Viking Vancouver, Fort Vancouver Broadcasting and Longwood Broadcasting; the agency designated these applications for comparative hearing on July 12, 1978. The applicants merged in 1979 under the Fort Vancouver Broadcasting application, enabling the FCC to issue a construction permit. The new station took the call letters KKSN—the KISN calls having been assigned to
97.1 FM in Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 8, 1978— and began broadcasting April 1, 1980, trading on the "Mighty 91" name and KISN heritage. Former KISN sales manager Bill Failing served as the first general manager of the new KKSN.
In its history since returning in 1980, this frequency has aired numerous formats, including
classical,
oldies
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(as "Kissin' 910 from 1987 to 1989) and
adult standards (as "Sunny 910" from 1989 to 1998). On March 30, 1998, as part of a format swap, the "Sunny" format would move to
1520 AM
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Argentina
* LRI721 in Chascomús, B ...
, while 910 became home of
sports radio
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station
KFXX, which would move to 1080 kHz on March 18, 2004. 910 then adopted 1080's former
hot talk
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format as KOTK ("Max 910"). Personalities on "Max" included
Don Imus
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,
Rick Emerson,
Don & Mike,
Tom Leykis
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* Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head''
* Tom Beck, a character ...
and
Phil Hendrie
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. On April 21, 2005, it flipped back to
oldies
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as KKSN, picking up the oldies format after
KKSN-FM 97.1 ("KISN-FM") flipped to adult hits as "Charlie FM".
On February 15, 2007, KKSN changed their call letters to KTRO; and on March 28, 2007, KTRO-FM changed their format to regional Mexican and changed their call letters to
KRYP
KRYP is a commercial broadcast FM radio station located in the Portland, Oregon area and owned by the Salem Media Group. KRYP is a Spanish language station playing regional Mexican music (a mix of genres such as Banda, Ranchera, Mariachi, an ...
, and the existing talk format continued on KTRO AM. The station, though still owned by
Entercom
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, was programmed by
Salem Communications
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. The former program lineup (
Dennis Prager
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,
Hugh Hewitt
Hugh Hewitt (born February 22, 1956) is an American radio talk show host with the Salem Radio Network and an attorney, academic, and author. A conservative, he writes about law, society, politics, and media bias in the United States. Hewitt is ...
,
Laura Ingraham
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, etc.) was similar to that found on other Salem stations throughout the
United States
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.
On January 5, 2009, the station switched to a simulcast of
KWJJ
KWJJ-FM (99.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Portland, Oregon. It is owned by Audacy, Inc. and airs a country music and southern rock radio format. The studio is on SW Bancroft Street, near downtown Portland. The station transmitter is a ...
, an FM country music station. The
LMA with Salem Communications expired.
On May 1, 2009, KTRO switched to
ESPN Deportes Radio
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, a Spanish-language sports talk network.
On May 28, 2010, KTRO changed their call letters back to KKSN. The station dropped ESPN Deportes Radio on July 12, 2010 in favor of simulcasting the programming of
KNRK-HD2, which airs music from local bands.
On September 11, 2013, KKSN changed its call letters to KMTT as part of a warehousing move by Entercom. The former holder of the call letters,
103.7 FM in
Seattle
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, now uses the call letters KHTP.
On November 1, 2013, KMTT changed their format from "94/7 too" with local and Northwest music (which continued on KNRK-HD2) to sports, branded as "Sports 910", and featured programming from
CBS Sports Radio
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CBS Sports Radio is owned by Paramount Global and distributed by Westwood One. Programmin ...
.
On September 10, 2015, KMTT switched affiliations from CBS Sports Radio to ESPN Radio and rebranded as "910 ESPN Portland".
Entercom Shakes Up Portland Sports Stations
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References
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Radio stations established in 1980
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1980 establishments in Washington (state)
Audacy, Inc. radio stations