KALL (700 AM) is a

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in the

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licensed to

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, though in

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s and the FCC database, the station is listed as being licensed to "North Salt Lake City". The station is owned by Dell Loy Hansen's Broadway Media. The station's studios are located in Downtown Salt Lake City and its transmitter site is located in Legacy Nature Preserve west of Bountiful. Their sister station KOVO is also an ESPN Radio affiliate. Program highlights include live

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of University of Utah football and basketball and

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soccer, Keyshawn, JWill and Zubin, Greeny, the daily local show "The Bill & OC Show" and " Dan Patrick". KALL also carries the " NFL from Compass Media Networks" package.

History

KALL in Utah was founded in 1945 by Mr. and Mrs. George C. Hatch and Mr. and Mrs Robert H. Hinkley. In 1946 the

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, owned by the Kearns Corporation, through the efforts of

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and Tribune's president Thomas F. Kearns purchased a fifty percent interest in the radio station. This interest was in turn sold in 1954 to permit the Kearns-Tribune Corporation to apply for a Channel 2 Television license in a fifty-fifty partnership. KALL signed on the air September 22, 1981 as KFAM. KFAM broadcast a

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format in AM stereo. In 1997,

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owner

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purchased KFAM, which broadcast with 50,000 watts during the day and 10,000 watts at night in order to protect WLW. They changed the call letters to KWLW and even began to air programming such as Dale Sommers "The Truckin' Bozo" (also heard on WLW) on the station. The station aired a

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format until 2003, when Clear Channel Communications moved the KALL letters and programming from 910 AM. Clear Channel sold KALL to UT Radio Acquisition LLC in 2006.,"Deals," ''Broadcasting & Cable'', February 27, 2006. and the station is now owned by Broadway Media. ESPN 700 added MMA fighter "OC" Sean O'Connell in 2014.

Programming

The station primarily airs their contracted ESPN Radio talk programming. Aside from this, the station airs the locally produced ''The Bill Riley Show'' on weekday mornings and ''The Drive with Spence Checketts'' on weekday afternoons. The station is the flagship broadcaster of the Utah Utes

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network, broadcasting Utes football, Utes basketball, and Utes baseball games. KALL is also the flagship radio station of

soccer matches. When not running the above, ESPN 700 broadcasts nationally syndicated content from

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, NBA on ESPN Radio, ESPN Radio College Football, and the National Football League on Westwood One Sports

References

External links

FCC History Cards for KALLOfficial website
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