KXL-FM (101.1

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. It is owned by

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and broadcasts a

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. The

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s are on SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland. KXL-FM is the flagship station for the nationally syndicated '' Lars Larson Show''. In addition to news blocks in weekday AM and PM

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, KXL-FM also carries syndicated shows from

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, ''Markley, Van Camp and Robbins'', ''

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'', '' First Light'' and '' America in the Morning''. KXL-FM has an

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(ERP) of 100,000

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s, the maximum for most FM stations in the U.S. The

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is on Barnes Road, a

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site shared with

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Channel 2.

History

KOIN-FM

On , the station

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as KOIN-FM. It was the FM counterpart to KOIN 970 AM (now

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). The power was originally 48,600 watts, less than half the current output. KOIN-AM-FM mostly

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their programming, carrying the

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schedule of dramas, comedies, news and sports during the "

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." As network programming moved from radio to television in the 1950s, KOIN-AM-FM switched to a

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, middle of the road format of news, sports and popular adult music, with the FM station sometimes airing classical concerts in the evening. In 1967, KOIN-FM ended the simulcast with 970 AM. It began playing

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around the clock. The four-hour long ''KOIN Concert Hall'' was broadcast weekdays from 6 to 10 p.m., hosted first by Blaine Hanks, then Don Gay.https://feedback.pdxradio.com/forums/topic/this-day-in-portland-radio-history-september-archive-edition/

Top 40, Country and Oldies

In May 1977, the station changed its

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to KYTE-FM and aired a

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format as "The FM Kite". On January 5, 1979, KYTE-FM flipped to

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and changed the call letters to KLLB (as "Country Club 101").https://feedback.pdxradio.com/forums/topic/this-day-in-portland-radio-history-january-5/ On September 4, 1979, KLLB changed format to a mix of Top 40 and

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as "KB-101 Rock Deluxe". Then, a year later, it changed to

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, also calling itself "KB-101".

Rock, Classical and Smooth Jazz

On November 8, 1982, KLLB switched to an album rock format as "Rock 101". A few months later, in January 1983, the call letters changed to KRCK. On January 3, 1985, 101.1 returned to the same format it had in 1967. It became "Classical 101". And on February 18, 1985, the call letters changed back to KYTE-FM. On January 30, 1989, the station changed its call letters to KKCY and aired a

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format, branded as "The City". (The classical format was moved to KYTE 970 AM.) On December 29, 1989, at 5 p.m., after a few days of stunting, KKCY changed to an

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format, and on January 23, 1990, the call letters were changed to KUFO, and on August 1, 2001, to KUFO-FM. In August 2009,

sold the Portland cluster (including KUFO) to Alpha Broadcasting in an effort to focus more on major market stations. On October 24, 2009, KUFO began stunting with a "mothership refueling" countdown to end at 7 a.m. on October 28 when it re-launched. The actual musical content of KUFO was the same as it was prior to the re-launch; only the personalities changed. On September 16, 2010, the call sign reverted to simply KUFO.

News/Talk KXL

At 8:47 a.m. on March 15, 2011, KUFO's format was flipped to a simulcast of KXL

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. The two stations aired KXL's news and talk programs. On March 22, 2011, KUFO 101.1 changed its

to KXL-FM and billed itself as "News Radio 101 FM & 750 AM KXL." On the same day, the KUFO call letters moved to

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for use on that station. The slogan later became "FM News 101 KXL", with the AM's dial position not as prominent. This is the second FM station in Portland to use the name KXL-FM. Those call letters were used on FM 95.5 starting in 1965 when it carried a

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format. That station is now

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. On May 25, 2011, at 4 p.m., KXL-FM ended its simulcast with KXL 750 AM. That station flipped to sports as

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, "750 The Game". On May 6, 2013, KXL-FM announced it had dropped its

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with

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. It picked up

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-TV affiliate

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Channel 8.

References

External links

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KUFO's goodbye message to listeners
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