KDWN
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| City | Las Vegas, Nevada |
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| Broadcast area | Las Vegas metropolitan area |
| Branding | AM 720 KDWN |
| Slogan | Where Las Vegas Comes to Talk |
| Frequency | 720 kHz(also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1975 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 50,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 54686 |
| Callsign meaning | DaWN |
| Affiliations |
Associated Press Westwood One News |
| Owner |
Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. (Beasley Media Group, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KCYE, KKLZ |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kdwn.com |
KDWN (720 AM) is an American radio station owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It broadcasts full-time at 50,000 watts, and is directional at night. It can be heard throughout most of the Western United States, north into Canada and south into Mexico. KDWN is primarily a news-talk radio station featuring a local morning talk show host Alan Stock and syndicated talk show host Jerry Doyle. KDWN also broadcasts brokered programs for Las Vegas casinos, local businesses, and other groups. It is the station where famous late-night talk show host Art Bell first broadcast his show, Coast to Coast AM. It also has a local news alliance with Channel 8 KLAS-TV, the CBS TV Network affiliate in Las Vegas.
The station's studios are located in the unincorporated Clark County area of Spring Valley, while its transmitter is in Henderson.
KDWN is known as "K-Dawn," the call-sign's pronunciation.
KDWN broadcasts in the HD radio format.
KDWN first came on the air in April 1975. The station began broadcasting as a music-oriented radio station playing mostly soft adult contemporary. KDWN was one of a group of AM stations that played music around that time in the middle of the 1970s. The music format was broadcast until around Christmas 1979.
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