KQWB (AM)
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| City | West Fargo, North Dakota |
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| Broadcast area | Fargo-Moorhead |
| Branding | Bison 1660 |
| Slogan | Your home for NDSU sports |
| Frequency | 1660 kHz AM stereo |
| Translator(s) | 92.7 K224FD (Fargo) |
| Repeater(s) | 107.9-3 KPFX-HD3 |
| First air date | March 1960 (as KUTT at 1550) |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 10,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 87146 |
| Former callsigns | KUTT (1960-1965) KQWB (1965-1995) KQFN (1995-96) KQJD (2000-sign off of 1550 kHz) |
| Former frequencies | 1550 kHz (1960-2000) |
| Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio |
| Owner | Radio FM Media (Radio Fargo-Moorhead, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | K233CY, KBVB, KPFX, KLTA-FM, KQWB-FM, KBMW, W245CM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | bison1660.com |
KQWB (1660 AM kHz, "Bison 1660") is an American radio station located in Fargo, North Dakota (licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adjacent West Fargo, North Dakota), owned by Jim Ingstad's Radio FM Media. It airs game broadcasts and sports talk programs themed around the athletics programs of North Dakota State University, with Fox Sports Radio as a sustaining service.
The local talk programs are the daily shows 'The Insiders' with Jeff Culhane (Program Director and play by play voice for NDSU Bison football and men's basketball) and Jeremy Jorgensen (Director of Broadcasting at NDSU) and 'The Brakedown' with Keith Brake (Assistant PD and women's play-by-play voice)
National Fox Sports radio shows include The Dan Patrick Show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, Jay Mohr Sports, JT The Brick with Tomm Looney,The Jason Smith Show, and more. KQWB also airs national College Football and NFL broadcasts from Sports USA.
KUTT went on the air in March 1960 at 1550 kHz as a Top 40 format owned by Music Broadcasters. Its signal was 5 kW daytime only, its transmitter was on Old Highway 75 north of Moorhead, and its studios were in Downtown Fargo. The station was bought in 1965 by Midwest Radio and the station's call letters were changed to KQWB (inspired by KDWB in Minneapolis).
In 1975, KQWB was granted a construction permit to add a 5 kW nighttime signal from the site of KQWB-FM north of Glyndon, while keeping its daytime signal from the transmitter North of Moorhead. The North Moorhead location became home to its studio in 1978 and where it remained until moving into the building in 1997. Later in 1978, KQWB was granted a daytime power increase to 10 kW from the Glyndon transmitter.
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