KBGG (1700 AM) is a

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. The station is owned by

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and it airs a

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, known as "101.3 & 1700 The Champ". KBGG's studios and offices are located in Urbandale. The main AM

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is located off Fairview Lane in Pleasant Hill. KBGG is in the " Expanded Band," one of only a handful of stations at AM 1700. It is powered at 10,000

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s by day and 1,000 watts at night, using a

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Programming and Personalities

Several sports talk shows are heard on 1700 The Champ KBGG weekdays: Taz & The Moose, The D.A. Show, Jim Rome, The Drive with Wolfgang and Steen, Tiki & Tierney, Bill Reiter and Amy Lawrence. KBGG serves as the Des Moines affiliate for the

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and the

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men's basketball and football. KBGG also carries the

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. Other local and regional programming includes: * NCAA & Pro Sports Live Play x Play courtesy of Westwood One, Compass Media Networks & Learfield * Chiefs Kingdom Show: 6:00 p.m. Tuesdays * NFL Prime Time Live Play x Play * Chiefs Radio Network * UNI Panthers Football & Basketball Play x Play * UNI Coach’s Show: Panther Sports Talk * ISU Coach’s Pregame Show with Paul Clark * The Hawkeye Huddle (Tuesday’s 6-7 p.m.) during Iowa Hawkeye Football and Basketball season

History

KBGG originated as the expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available " Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with KKSO in Des Moines, a station that dated to 1947, authorized to move from 1390 kHz to 1700 kHz."FCC Public Notice: Mass Media Bureau Announces Revised AM Expanded Band Allotment Plan and Filing Window for Eligible Stations"
(FCC DA 97-537), March 17, 1997. A construction permit for the expanded band station was assigned the call letters KBGG on November 12, 1997. FCC's policy was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. It was ultimately decided to transfer full operations to the expanded band station, and on February 2, 2001 the license for KKSO on 1390 AM was cancelled. The new dial position gave the station more daytime power and a non-directional signal. The

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KBGG was shared with its FM sister station. The WSJZ call sign was briefly parked on the frequency from June 6 to June 18, 2002; the station then reverted to KBGG. In the 2000s, KBGG broadcast a

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format and was known as "La Indomable AM." On February 25, 2008, the station relaunched as "1700 The Champ". After having been an ESPN Radio affiliate for nearly five years, KBGG became an affiliate of CBS Sports Radio on January 2, 2013, as part of a

-wide switch.http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20130116/SPORTS/301160118/Three-radio-stations-to-tangle-for-sports-listeners-in-Des-Moines?Frontpage Cumulus, which owns KBGG, has a financial stake in CBS Radio Sports. In October 2015, the station became a

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/sports hybrid and branded itself ''1700 KBGG The Big Talker''. Weekday mornings began with ''Good Day With

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'', featuring news director Dianna Kelly with local information, followed by ''The

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Show'' and ''

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'' heard overnight. In 2017, Marty Tirrell of the "''Marty and Miller''" show stopped making payments to Cumulus Media and the show ended on 1700. Also in August 2017, "''The Ken Miller Show''" started the sports day from 12-2, followed by CBS Sports from 2-4. "''Jimmy B and TC''" which originally was on from 12-2 moved from 4-6. On October 15, 2018, the station returned to full time sports talk. On December 7, 2021, KBGG began simulcasting on newly licensed FM translator K267CY (101.3 Mhz). The antenna is co-located on sister FM station

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's tower in Johnston.

References

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