KPOJ
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| City | Portland, Oregon |
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| Broadcast area | Portland metropolitan area and Salem, Oregon |
| Branding | Rip City Radio 620 |
| Slogan | Portland's Blazers Station |
| Frequency | 620 kHz |
| First air date | March 25, 1922 (as KGW) |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 25,000 watts (daytime) 10,000 watts (nighttime) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 53069 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°25′20″N 122°33′57″W / 45.42222°N 122.56583°WCoordinates: 45°25′20″N 122°33′57″W / 45.42222°N 122.56583°W |
| Callsign meaning | Portland Oregon Journal, after the newspaper which once held the callsign. |
| Former callsigns | KGW (1922-1993) KINK (1993-1995) KOTK (1995-1997) KEWS (1997-2000) KDBZ (2000-2002) KTLK (2002-2003) |
| Former frequencies | 832.7 kHz (3/1922-11/1922) 749.4 kHz (1922-1923) 609.3 kHz (1923-1925) 610 kHz (1925-1928) |
| Affiliations |
Fox Sports Radio KATU-TV |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KKRZ, KKCW, KFBW, KLTH, KXJM, KEX |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | ripcityradio.com |
KPOJ (620 AM) is a radio station serving the Portland metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Oregon and neighboring Washington. It airs a sports talk format, and is affiliated with Fox Sports Radio. Prior to November 9, 2012, the station aired an influential progressive talk format. The transmitter is located in Sunnyside, Oregon; their studios are in Tigard, Oregon. The station is owned by iHeartMedia.
For more than 70 years, the station at AM 620 was KGW, founded in 1922 by The Oregonian newspaper and owned and operated by it until 1953, when it was sold to King Broadcasting. It began broadcasting on March 25, 1922 (after a test transmission two days earlier). KGW affiliated with the NBC network in 1927 and stayed for 29 years until joining ABC Radio in 1956. The station's studios and transmitter were located in the Oregonian Building from 1922 until 1943, when a fire destroyed them and the station moved to other quarters.
Among KGW's early personalities was Mel Blanc, a local musician and vocalist featured on the "Hoot Owls" variety program from 1927 to 1933. Here, Blanc discovered a talent for character voices that would win him stardom as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and many other Warner Brothers cartoon features.
Under The Oregonian the station gained an AM sister, KEX, in 1933, and the Northwest's first FM station, KGW-FM (now KKRZ), in 1946. King Broadcasting founded KGW-TV in 1956. All three stations continue to exist in Portland, but none have any remaining connection to AM 620. KGW would flip to Top 40 on January 9, 1959.
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