KNGN (1360 AM) is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

broadcasting a

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music format. It is licensed to

McCook, Nebraska McCook is a city in and the county seat of Red Willow County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 7,446 at the 2020 census. History McCook was platted in 1882 when the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad was extended to that point. I ...

and owned by Kansas Nebraska Good News Broadcasting Corporation.

History

Secular programming

KWRV signed on the air on June 23, 1961. It was owned by the Regional Broadcasting Corporation and maintained studios on Norris Street in McCook. KWRV was knocked off the air for two hours one day in May 1962 when a snake pursued a mouse into its transmitter. 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. The new owners changed the station's call letters to KICX effective May 19, 1966. The station maintained a middle-of-the-road music format and affiliations with the ABC Information and Intermountain networks. KICX's programming began to be simulcast on

KICX-FM KICX-FM (96.1 MHz) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary music format. Licensed to McCook, Nebraska McCook is a city in and the county seat of Red Willow County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 7,446 at the 2020 ...

95.9 when that station signed on January 31, 1979.

Change to religion

Semeco, now owned by Corrick's estate, sold KICX-AM-FM to Ron Crowe and Associates for $200,000 in 1989. 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 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 1.8 million members, it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States. The LC ...

. The station relaunched as KNGN, for "Kansas Nebraska Good News", on April 8, 1990. Locally, the station was operated by Peace Lutheran Church and relied heavily on programming from the synod's KFUO in St. Louis. 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. The station also relocated from its original studios at Peace Lutheran to a larger facility at a former country school in McCook. 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.

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* NGN Radio stations established in 1961 1961 establishments in Nebraska NGN {{Nebraska-radio-station-stub