City | North Las Vegas, Nevada |
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Broadcast area | Las Vegas metropolitan area |
Branding | NewsRadio 840 AM KXNT |
Slogan | Las Vegas' most trusted source for entertainment, news, talk and sports |
Frequency | 840 kHz 100.5 FM HD2 KXQQ-FM (also on HD Radio) |
First air date | 1986 |
Format | News/Talk |
Power | 50,000 watts (day) 25,000 watts (night) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 33068 |
Callsign meaning | kxNews/Talk |
Former callsigns | KVEG |
Affiliations |
CBS Radio News Premiere Networks The Weather Channel Bloomberg Radio |
Owner |
CBS Radio (sale to Entercom pending) (CBS Radio Stations Inc.) |
Sister stations | KLUC-FM, KMXB, KXQQ-FM, KXTE, KXST |
Webcast | Listen Live! |
Website | cbsvegas.com |
KXNT (840 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It is owned by CBS Radio and carries a talk radio format The station's studios are located in the unincorporated Clark County area of Spring Valley, while KXNT's transmitter is located near Nellis Air Force Base and serves the greater Las Vegas metropolitan area. KXNT is a Class B station operating on a clear channel frequency. WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky is the dominant Class A station on 840 AM. So KXNT must reduce its power at night, to avoid interfering with WHAS's signal. KXNT operates at 50,000 watts by day and 25,000 watts at night.
KXNT is licensed to broadcast in the HD radio format. It is also heard on the HD-2 channel of sister station 100.5 KXQQ-FM.
KXNT has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to the KXST transmitter site and decrease night power to 10,000 watts.
KNXT airs both local and nationally syndicated talk shows. Weekday programs include This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal; Heidi Harris; Rush Limbaugh; Dave Ramsey; Alan Stock; Chad Benson and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.