KPXQ
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| City | Glendale, Arizona |
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| Slogan | The Christian Station |
| Frequency | 1360 kHz, 1340 (1947-1957) |
| First air date | 1947 |
| Format | Christian radio |
| Power | 50,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 55912 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°30′28.00″N 112°13′1.00″W / 33.5077778°N 112.2169444°W |
| Former callsigns | KRUX (1947-1981) KLFF (1981-1992) KNNS (1992-1994) KGME (1994-1999) KFDJ (1999-1999) KCTK (1999-1999) |
| Owner |
Salem Communications (Common Ground Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kpxq1360.com |
KPXQ (1360 AM) is a Christian radio station owned by Salem Communications in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Programs include Through the Bible with J. Vernon McGee, Grace to You with John MacArthur, and Love Worth Finding with Adrian Rogers. KPXQ is licensed to Glendale.
KPXQ signed on in 1947 as KRUX on 1340 kHz, licensed to Glendale. KRUX moved to 1360 in 1957.
From the 1950s until the 1970s, KRUX was a major Top-40 station in Phoenix. During its heyday, it competed head to head with KRIZ 1230 AM for Top 40 radio dominance in Phoenix. KRUX and KRIZ went back and forth in the ratings game before both stations succumbed to the more popular FM rockers of the 1970s. Program Directors during the station's heyday included Larry "Lucky Lawrence" Wright and Al McCoy, who went on to become the long-time play-by-play voice of the NBA Phoenix Suns.
Some of the station's all time ratings getters were the personalities of the 1960s, known as the "KRUX Good Guys" Lucky Lawrence, "Bobby-Poo" Bob Shannon,"Your Boy" Al McCoy, Charles L. "Kit" Carson, Norm Seeley, Dick Gray and Don Daro overnights. The jocks of the 1970s were John Driscoll aka the 2nd Bob Shannon, John Sebastian, Dave Trout, Chuck Browning, Harry Scarborough and Rich "Mother" Robbins.
For a brief period in the mid-1970s, KRUX experimented with an all-news format featuring NBC's ill-fated "News and Information Service" network. When that experiment failed, they went back to their Top 40 format, but would never recover with the insurgence of FM competition. KRUX management (Lotus Corporation) brought in many valley vets from other stations to try to stem the tide of music on FM. Those radio personalities included "KC in the Morning" Kennedy from 5 AM to 10AM, Daniel (Oshe) from 10AM to 3 PM, Program Director Bobby Rivers 3PM to 7PM in the late seventies till January 1981, when the final rock and roll turntable (Cart machine) went silent. Other DJ's included Greg Mills from 7PM till midnight and Morgan Evans from midnight to 6am. Evans moved to morning drive at Anchorage, Alaska AOR rocker KRKN in 1981 after the KRUX format change to Big Band. CW MCMUffin on Weekends doubled also as the engineer for over five years. Richard Ruiz of Downey California was music director before KC Kennedy took over in 1980.
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