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KYNO (940 AM broadcasting) is a radio station licensed to Fresno, California and is owned by John Ostlund and Katrina Ostlund. KYNO airs an oldies Radio format, switching to Christmas music for much of December. KYNO's and offices are on Fulton Street in Fresno and its transmitter is off Avenue 384 in Monson, California.
KYNO operates with 50,000 around the clock, the highest power permitted for American AM radio stations. 940 KYNO is the most powerful Oldies radio station in America with daytime coverage from Sacramento to Bakersfield and throughout the Central Coast of California. But because AM 940 is a clear channel frequency, KYNO uses a directional antenna to avoid interfering with Class A stations XEQ-AM in Mexico City and CFNV in Montreal. Even with these restrictions, it can be heard across much of the Western United States at night with a good radio.
KYNO from 1956 and throughout the 1960s and 1970s, was a Top-40 station, and was the #1 "Hooper" rated station in Fresno under the ownership of Gene Chenault. KYNO was the testing ground for the "Boss Radio" format that would be adopted at major market stations such as KHJ, Los Angeles; KFRC, San Francisco and CKLW, Windsor-Detroit.
Program director Bill Drake and such as K.O. Bailey, Les Turpin, Ed Mitchell, and Gary Mack went against the cross town rival 1340 KMAK (now KCBL), its program director Ron Jacobs and DJs Robert W. Morgan (who would become legendary in Los Angeles), Jim Price, Glenn Adams, Jay Stevens, Frank Terry & Tom Maule. This radio war is now known as the "Battle Of Fresno."
Eventually, KYNO stopped playing music and for a time was an all-sports station that carried the Fresno Grizzlies of the Pacific Coast League. They also broadcast live games of the Fresno Cardinals (St. Louis farm team) up to 1956, and the independent Fresno SunSox (1957). The team became a farm team of the San Francisco Giants in 1958 (Fresno Bee Radio Logs - various)
From 1999 until August 30, 2008, KYNO was a Spanish language Christian music and preaching station, known as Radio Guadalupe.
KYNO changed frequencies from 1300 AM to 940 AM on April 1, 2010, and then changed frequencies from 940 AM to 1430 AM on October 6, 2012.
The new ownership changed to a politically conservative news/talk format (one of five such formats in the region) on September 1, 2008, starting with a lineup featuring nationally syndicated talk show hosts, such as Bill O'Reilly, Dennis Miller, Dr. Laura, Don Imus and Larry King Live.
On October 6, 2012, KYNO dropped the news talk format to become a full-time sports radio station, as an ESPN Radio Network affiliate under new call letters, KFIG. It also broadcast some local sports shows in the afternoon and early evening. KFIG carried both San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics MLB games, as well as San Francisco 49ers and Las Vegas Raiders NFL games.
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