KVNA (600

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, United States, the station serves the Flagstaff area. The station is currently owned by Yavapai Broadcasting Corporation. KVNA is also heard on

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K284BO at 104.7 MHz broadcasting from Mt. Elden and serving the greater Flagstaff area, giving the station the "Sunny 104.7" identification. KVNA has been granted an

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to move to a different transmitter site and increase the night power to 70 watts.

History

KEOS

Today's KVNA started as KEOS, which used the slogan "Service in Sound in Northern Arizona" in the 1950s and 1960s. The station was owned by Flagstaff businessman Jack Bird and licensed to Thunderbird Broadcasting Company; the call letters stood for the initials of the first owner, E.O. Smith. KEOS ("Chaos") was a 1,000-

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daytimer signing off at sunset each day on the 1290 AM

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. In 1963, the second radio station to operate in Flagstaff failed. KGPH signed on December 6, 1950, from studios in the Weatherford Hotel. The station would relocate from 1230 kHz to 690 in 1953. KGPH was bought by a part-owner of Phoenix's KOY in April 1956; the new owners changed the callsign to KVNA. In June 1963, KVNA was sold to Frontier Television for $95,000. KVNA was described as defunct by that September, and in October, KEOS filed to take over the superior 24-hour facilities that belonged to KVNA. The application was approved in 1966, but it was not until the station completed construction of its new studio facilities, on September 8, 1969, that it moved to 690. The new KEOS broadcast with 1,000 watts day and 500 watts night, DA-2. The station later changed its call sign to KZKZ after it was sold in 1981.

KVNA

After Communications Ltd. (Ed Raabe and Paul Seyler) purchased the station in 1986, they changed the call sign from KZKZ to KVNA (returning the callsign to the frequency for the first time since 1963), and paired it with a new FM station at 97.5

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(KVNA-FM). On July 14, 1988, the station that had been recognized as Northern Arizona's news and sports station, KCLS at 600 kHz, shut down when its owner opted to convert the land into a mobile home park. KVNA moved to acquire on-air talent, including the former KCLS general manager, and sports rights including

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baseball and Flagstaff High School football. In the mid-1990s, under new ownership, KVNA would acquire the dormant KCLS license in order to relocate KVNA to 600 kHz. On December 30, 2014, the "Sunny" AC format of

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moved to KVNA and its FM translator as "Sunny 104.7". KVNA flipped to sports talk in 2019.

Station Ownership

* 1952–1974 THUNDERBIRD BROADCASTING COMPANY owned no other radio stations * 1974–1978 CFK CORPORATION (Jason Jennings, Paul Knutsen, Connie Knutsen) owned no other radio stations * 1978–1986 in receivership to Jack Bird, former Principal of Thunderbird Broadcasting, with Todd Wallace, broadcast consultant * 1986–1989 COMMUNICATIONS, LTD, (Ed Raabe & Paul Seyler) * 1994–1996 PARK LANE COMMUNICATIONS owned stations in Kansas along with 97.5 KVNA-FM and was to sign on current KMGN * 1996–1999 REGENT BROADCASTING owned sister stations KZGL-FM, KVNA-FM along with stations in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, California, New Mexico and Minnesota * 1999– YAVAPAI BROADCASTING currently owns KQST-FM, KVNA-FM, KVRD-FM, KKLD-FM, KYBC-AM

On-air personalities/shows

Some notable radio personalities have worked at either KVNA or KCLS earlier in their careers. Tim Hattrick of the well known Phoenix morning team of Tim and Willie (who have worked at

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and KNIX) started at KZKZ while in college at Northern Arizona University. Jim Sharpe, who has worked mornings in several major markets, including Los Angeles spent some of his early radio career at KCLS in the early 1980s. Some other notable personalities and shows to appear on either station were: *

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with Bill O'Reilly * The

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Weekend Roundup * KVNA Saturday Folk with Barry Harrison * KVNA Collectors Connection *

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The Huddle *

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* Animal Radio * Steve Dale's Pet World *

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This Morning / This Weekend * KVNA Radio Fiesta with Arlette Vague (Spanish) *

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's Arizona Tales *

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on Air * On the House with the Carey Brothers * ''

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Sports

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* Flagstaff area

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References

External links

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FCC History Cards for KVNA
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