KNON (89.3 FM) is a non-commercial

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broadcasting a

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, it serves the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and is owned by Agape Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. KNON (for NON-commercial) is a non-profit, listener-supported radio station, deriving its main source of income from on-air pledge drives, underwriting or sponsorships by local small businesses, and benefit events. The

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s play their own music or conduct

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s. KNON has a paid staff of four full-time people. KNON has an

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(ERP) of 55,000

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s. It broadcasts using

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technology. The

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is on West Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill, amid the

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s for other Dallas-area FM and TV stations. The

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and offices are on Colt Road in Dallas, off Interstate 635.

Programming

KNON plays a variety of music, including weekly shows featuring

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, Bluegrass,

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, R&B, Hip Hop, Latin Contemporary,

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and

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. Most of the DJs have three-hour shifts, once or twice a week. Talk programming includes once-a-week shows on workers rights and

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issues.

History

KNON originally broadcast at 90.9 MHz. Its predecessor on the frequency was KCHU, a non-commercial station that began broadcasting on August 29, 1975. KCHU operated until August 1977, when it went off the air due to financial shortfalls. The 90.9 frequency was transferred to Agape Broadcasting as KNON in 1979. The station remained silent through 1980, which was then a license renewal year in Texas. At the time, radio stations operated on a three-year license cycle with the

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(FCC). By 1984, Criswell Bible Institute (now

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) had begun operating KCBI-FM from a downtown Dallas rooftop with 1,500 watts on 89.3 MHz. The institute wanted to raise the station's power and height and to relocate to the Cedar Hill tower farm where most Dallas-area FM and TV stations have their transmitters. By the mid-1980s, a number of groups, among which the Criswell Bible Institute was the most prominent, petitioned the FCC to have the 90.9 FM frequency assigned to another broadcaster. Criswell had cited past operational deficiencies on KNON's part as justification for the frequency reallocation. The result was a swap of frequencies between KCBI and KNON in May 1988. The KNON online history museum can be foun
here.
KNON was picked Best Radio Station in Dallas in 2011 by ''

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'' and ''D-Magazine''. In 2012 KNON was picked Best Radio Station for Music by the ''Dallas Observer''. On the night of October 20, 2019, the KNON studios and offices sustained a direct hit from a tornado, and were heavily damaged. There were no injuries at the station.

References

External links

Official KNON websiteKNON's Show Schedule

DFW Radio/TV History
*FCC History Cards for:
KCBI at 89.3 (current KNON license)

the defunct 90.9 license
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Radio stations established in 1983

Programming

History

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