City | Logan, Utah |
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Broadcast area | Northern Utah |
Branding | Newstalk 610 |
Frequency | 610 kHz |
Translator(s) | K271BI 102.1 (Wellsville) |
First air date | 1938 |
Format | News/Talk |
Power | 10,000 watts day 1,000 watts night |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 55459 |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°40′30″N 111°56′6″W / 41.67500°N 111.93500°W |
Callsign meaning | The Voice of Northern Utah |
Affiliations | Westwood One , Premiere Radio Networks |
Owner | Cache Valley Media Group (Sun Valley Radio, Inc.) |
Sister stations | KLGN, KLZX, KKEX, KVFX, KBLQ, KGNT |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | www.610kvnu.com |
KVNU (AM 610) is a news talk radio station in Logan, Utah, United States. The call letters stand for "the Voice of Northern Utah". The station was started in 1938 by Reed Bullen, who owned the station until 1996 when it was sold to the Cache Valley Media Group. The KVNU studios are in the same building, informally called "the Radio Ranch", with the rest of the stations in the Cache Valley Media Group including KKEX "Kix 96", KBLQ "Q 92", KVFX "94-5/98-3 VFX", KGNT "KOOL 103.9", KLZX 95.9 FM, KLGN 1390 AM/103.3 FM and 104.9 La Sabrosa (KLZX HD2).
KVNU is the flagship station of the Utah State Aggie radio network. Men's basketball and football games are broadcast with Al Lewis providing play by play.
The station begins the day with local programming such as "KVNU Morning News with Al Lewis & Craig Hislop" and Trading Post hosted by Craig Hislop. Afternoon drivetime and early evening hours feature For the People with Jason Williams; local news provided by Bill Walter and Full Court Press with Eric Frandsen and John Russell. The remainder of the day features syndicated shows: The Rush Limbaugh Show, Dave Ramsey, The Sean Hannity Show and concludes late night and overnight with Coast To Coast AM with George Noory and Daybreak USA.
610 KVNU is the flagship station for the Utah State Aggie Radio Network, which broadcasts football and men's basketball games. Al Lewis has handled play-by-play for both sports since 1994, and also doubles as program director and sports director of KVNU. During football season Craig Hislop provides color commentary, while that duty is filled by Rod Tueller during basketball season. Coverage of Aggie games includes a two-hour pregame show during the football season beginning with the Touchdown Countdown (a pregame call-in show) but only a one-hour pregame show during the basketball season. Each pregame and postgame features interviews conducted by Lewis with players and coaches. Each postgame show is followed by Aggie Call, where Aggie fans call in and share their thoughts and opinions on the game.