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KXTG (750 AM, "The Game") is a commercial radio station in Portland, Oregon. It airs a sports radio format and is owned by Connoisseur Media. The studios are on SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland.
By day, KXTG is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for AM radio stations. As 750 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A station WSB in Atlanta, KXTG reduces power at night to 20,000 watts using a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter is on SE Curtis Road in Damascus.
KXTG is Portland’s flagship radio home of the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer. It also carries Seattle Mariners baseball and broadcasts games from the NCAA March Madness tournament. The station served as the radio home of the Portland Steel (AFL) during the 2016 season.
John Canzano hosts The Bald Faced Truth weekday afternoons on KXTG; his show was the station’s inaugural sports program when the format launched on May 12, 2008, with guests including golfer Peter Jacobsen and then–U.S. Senator Barack Obama. In middays, the station airs nationally syndicated programming including The Dan Patrick Show and The Jim Rome Show, while network programming from the Infinity Sports Network and select shows from the BetMGM Network fill other weekday and weekend slots.
The station signed on the air on December 13, 1926. The original call sign was KXL. In its earliest days, KXL would broadcast on different frequencies. By the 1930s, the station was heard on 1420 kHz, sharing time with KBPS, now on 1450 AM.
In that era, KXL's power was limited to 250 watts by day, 100 watts at night. The studios were in the Multnomah Hotel on Pine Street in Portland. With the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) in 1941, KXL moved to 750 AM and got a boost in power to 10,000 watts. On 750, KXL was a daytimer, required to go off the air at night to protect Class I‑A station WSB Atlanta from interference. KXL also relocated its studios to Washington Street.
By the 1960s, the daytime power was increased to 50,000 watts. By day, KXL played an easy listening format it called "Good Music". Artists included Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Nat King Cole, and Henry Mancini. But KXL was still silent after sunset due to restrictions on 750 AM.
On May 13, 1965, the FCC approved the $125,000 sale of KGMG, a station at 95.5 FM. It was bought by KXL's parent company, Seattle, Portland & Spokane Radio. Two months later, on July 5, 1965, KGMG became KXL-FM and began duplicating KXL's "Good Music" format as KXL & KXL-FM Stereo.
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KXTG (750 AM, "The Game") is a commercial radio station in Portland, Oregon. It airs a sports radio format and is owned by Connoisseur Media. The studios are on SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland.
By day, KXTG is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for AM radio stations. As 750 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A station WSB in Atlanta, KXTG reduces power at night to 20,000 watts using a directional antenna with a four-tower array. The transmitter is on SE Curtis Road in Damascus.
KXTG is Portland’s flagship radio home of the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer. It also carries Seattle Mariners baseball and broadcasts games from the NCAA March Madness tournament. The station served as the radio home of the Portland Steel (AFL) during the 2016 season.
John Canzano hosts The Bald Faced Truth weekday afternoons on KXTG; his show was the station’s inaugural sports program when the format launched on May 12, 2008, with guests including golfer Peter Jacobsen and then–U.S. Senator Barack Obama. In middays, the station airs nationally syndicated programming including The Dan Patrick Show and The Jim Rome Show, while network programming from the Infinity Sports Network and select shows from the BetMGM Network fill other weekday and weekend slots.
The station signed on the air on December 13, 1926. The original call sign was KXL. In its earliest days, KXL would broadcast on different frequencies. By the 1930s, the station was heard on 1420 kHz, sharing time with KBPS, now on 1450 AM.
In that era, KXL's power was limited to 250 watts by day, 100 watts at night. The studios were in the Multnomah Hotel on Pine Street in Portland. With the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA) in 1941, KXL moved to 750 AM and got a boost in power to 10,000 watts. On 750, KXL was a daytimer, required to go off the air at night to protect Class I‑A station WSB Atlanta from interference. KXL also relocated its studios to Washington Street.
By the 1960s, the daytime power was increased to 50,000 watts. By day, KXL played an easy listening format it called "Good Music". Artists included Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Nat King Cole, and Henry Mancini. But KXL was still silent after sunset due to restrictions on 750 AM.
On May 13, 1965, the FCC approved the $125,000 sale of KGMG, a station at 95.5 FM. It was bought by KXL's parent company, Seattle, Portland & Spokane Radio. Two months later, on July 5, 1965, KGMG became KXL-FM and began duplicating KXL's "Good Music" format as KXL & KXL-FM Stereo.