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KUFO
KUFO (970 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Portland, Oregon. The station, owned by Connoisseur Media, calls itself "Freedom 970" and airs a conservative talk radio format. KUFO's offices and studios are on Southwest 5th Avenue in Portland, while the transmitter is located in Portland's West Hills.
KUFO features mostly nationally syndicated talk shows, including Brian Kilmeade, Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Dana Loesch and Lars Larson, who is also heard on co-owned 101.1 KXL-FM. Weekends feature shows on money, health, cars and guns. Syndicated weekend hosts include Guy Benson, Ben Ferguson, Jason Chaffetz and Bret Baier. Some weekend shows are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio.
The station previously aired Portland State Vikings college football and basketball games and Portland Steel Arena Football League games. Some of those teams are now heard on co-owned sports station KXTG 750 AM.
KUFO is among Oregon's earliest radio stations, receiving its first license on April 12, 1922. It was given the randomly assigned call letters KQP, awarded to the Blue Diamond Electric Company in Hood River, Oregon.
KQP moved to Portland in the fall of 1925. It made its Portland debut broadcast on November 9, 1925. It broadcast from a studio in the Portland Hotel that was connected by private telephone line to the transmitter located "one mile north of Sylvan". In April 1926 the station was acquired by the Portland News, which changed the call sign to KOIN. The station's studios were moved to the New Heathman Hotel.
KOIN was an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network, carrying its schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio". It was also an affiliate of the Don Lee Network, based on the West Coast. In March 1941, KOIN moved from 940 kHz to 970 kHz, following the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA).
In 1948, KOIN added an FM station, KOIN-FM, which today is co-owned 101.1 KXL-FM. KOIN-FM mostly simulcast the AM station until the late 1960s, when it began airing classical music in the evening. In 1953, KOIN put a TV station on the air, Channel 6 KOIN-TV. Because KOIN Radio was a CBS Radio affiliate, KOIN-TV carried CBS TV shows.
In the 1950s, as network programming moved from radio to television, KOIN began airing a full service middle-of-the-road format, featuring popular music, news, sports and talk. On May 12, 1977, the call letters changed to KYTE, featuring a Top 40 hits format. On September 4, 1979, it switched to country music as "97 Country".
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KUFO
KUFO (970 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Portland, Oregon. The station, owned by Connoisseur Media, calls itself "Freedom 970" and airs a conservative talk radio format. KUFO's offices and studios are on Southwest 5th Avenue in Portland, while the transmitter is located in Portland's West Hills.
KUFO features mostly nationally syndicated talk shows, including Brian Kilmeade, Dave Ramsey, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Dana Loesch and Lars Larson, who is also heard on co-owned 101.1 KXL-FM. Weekends feature shows on money, health, cars and guns. Syndicated weekend hosts include Guy Benson, Ben Ferguson, Jason Chaffetz and Bret Baier. Some weekend shows are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio.
The station previously aired Portland State Vikings college football and basketball games and Portland Steel Arena Football League games. Some of those teams are now heard on co-owned sports station KXTG 750 AM.
KUFO is among Oregon's earliest radio stations, receiving its first license on April 12, 1922. It was given the randomly assigned call letters KQP, awarded to the Blue Diamond Electric Company in Hood River, Oregon.
KQP moved to Portland in the fall of 1925. It made its Portland debut broadcast on November 9, 1925. It broadcast from a studio in the Portland Hotel that was connected by private telephone line to the transmitter located "one mile north of Sylvan". In April 1926 the station was acquired by the Portland News, which changed the call sign to KOIN. The station's studios were moved to the New Heathman Hotel.
KOIN was an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network, carrying its schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio". It was also an affiliate of the Don Lee Network, based on the West Coast. In March 1941, KOIN moved from 940 kHz to 970 kHz, following the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA).
In 1948, KOIN added an FM station, KOIN-FM, which today is co-owned 101.1 KXL-FM. KOIN-FM mostly simulcast the AM station until the late 1960s, when it began airing classical music in the evening. In 1953, KOIN put a TV station on the air, Channel 6 KOIN-TV. Because KOIN Radio was a CBS Radio affiliate, KOIN-TV carried CBS TV shows.
In the 1950s, as network programming moved from radio to television, KOIN began airing a full service middle-of-the-road format, featuring popular music, news, sports and talk. On May 12, 1977, the call letters changed to KYTE, featuring a Top 40 hits format. On September 4, 1979, it switched to country music as "97 Country".