hi, sorry if I missed the thread here, but seems KFNN 1510 has gone "silent"?
is it just me not finding it on the dial or did they finally shut down?
is it just me not finding it on the dial or did they finally shut down?
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KFNN 1510 Gone Silent?
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Both KFNN and KQFN has been silent since Nov 25, 2025. The bankruptcy receivership hasn't found any buyers. Come Nov. 25, 2026, they will need to return to the air, or turn in the licenses. This thread covers what happened last year.
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Thanks KilowattKat... Sad to hear it gone.. likely forever.Both KFNN and KQFN has been silent since Nov 25, 2025. The bankruptcy receivership hasn't found any buyers. Come Nov. 25, 2026, they will need to return to the air, or turn in the licenses. This thread covers what happened last year.
Remaining CRC stations going to liquidating agent
On a petition from Desert Financial Credit Union, the CRC stations in Phoenix are being transferred to a court-appointed liquidating agent for disposition.
KFNN is/was a business news and talk station. It used some brokered money shows and also Bloomberg syndicated programming. The call letters refer to a defunct syndicator, the Business News Network.
Is it ironic when a business news station has to go off the air. I guess we can say, it tried to tell us how to conduct our business affairs even though it couldn't succeed with its own.
Is it ironic when a business news station has to go off the air. I guess we can say, it tried to tell us how to conduct our business affairs even though it couldn't succeed with its own.
So what does that say about a religious format going off the air? That it tried to save others but couldn’t save itself?🤔🤣
Funny enough that exact same thing happened in Phoenix too. KXEG (also an AM station) went from Christian talk to a music format. Usually it'd make more sense the other way around imo
My mistake. KFNN = Financial News Network.
KBNP in Portland (with a similar Financial News/Conservative Talk format) went off the air around the same time. Coincidentally, they were two of the first "Business/Financial News" stations, both signing on in late 1988.
Business/Financial News is a niche format that has been replaced by up-to-the-minute information on smartphones.
Some memorable voices and shows on KFNN..
a guy named Sinclair (Noe?), Moe Ansari,
the 2 Guys and Your Money with their "strategy",
and of course Bob Brinker (who retired from ABC and passed away..)
a guy named Sinclair (Noe?), Moe Ansari,
the 2 Guys and Your Money with their "strategy",
and of course Bob Brinker (who retired from ABC and passed away..)
The all-business format was dealt a significant blow when the Wall Street Journal ended its syndicated radio division, and Salem sold many of their business formatted stations to Relevant Radio (among other operators) in the 2010s.
Those changes probably meant higher programming costs for others remaining in the format, like KFNN and KBNP.
I just looked up KFFN on FCCdata, and it showed class C 1kw. I am confused.
KFFN is a 1kw station in Tucson. This thread is about KFNN in Mesa, licensed for 22kw days and 100 watts night.
Sorry early AM brain fog. After 2 cups of coffee, how big is 1510 antenna field and who owns it? If I am looking at Google maps correctly, being close to "horse parks" could mean there is some value in the lands.
Both KBNP and KFNN also relied heavily on brokered financial shows. I take that well has dried up too.
1510 was diplexed on KKNT’s towers.
KFNN was Bill Haywood's last radio stop (as far as I know) before the legendary Phoenix talent and his wife took their own lives. (He handled the afternoon drive time shift, and yes, I very much remember tuning him in on the 1510 frequency and asking myself whyhe wasn't on a stronger signal.)
Frankly, I'll always remember the 1510 frequency better when it was an AM daytimer programming rock, oldies, alternative, and automated top-40 formats with its transmitter located inside its COL of Mesa and with very different call letters, first KDKB-AM and then later KDJQ.
Pure speculation here, but I drove past their Scottsdale Airpark studios this morning.. Front doors wide open looks like they are cleaning out the place..
If you're referring to the one hour show called "Heading home with Heywood'. It wasn't much, came across as paid advertising, short interviews with business owners touting their goods and services. Then you have J.D. Hayworth's last radio show that was on KFNN.
Maybe the two (if Heywood was still around) could have teamed up for a Lib vs Conservative show, and call it "Heywood and Hayworth". I like the ring of that.
KDKB 1510/93.3 was the effective replacement for the defunct KCAC/1010, the valley's original "progressive rock" station. At least it simulcasted on AM so I could hear it on my car radio. It had started as a country station, KALF, in the early 1960s.
The AM transmitter was somewhere south of downtown Mesa, near Country Club and Broadway. The FM may have been there early-on, but IIRC they were on South Mountain by the mid 1970s.
The FM was on South Mountain by the time I moved to Phoenix in 1972. And, thanks for the callsign of the original station--I heard it when I first visited Phoenix in 1971 but never got around to getting a callsign for it. Of course, it was one of four AM country outlets covering the Phoenix area but only one of which, KRDS, had nightime AM authorization. (KTUF's signal could be heard overnights on KNIX-FM.)