KDUS

KDUS
City Tempe, Arizona
Broadcast area Phoenix metropolitan area
Branding NBC Sports Radio AM 1060
Frequency 1060 kHz
Repeater(s) 100.7-2 KSLX-HD2
Format Sports Talk
Power 5,000 watts daytime
500 watts nighttime
Class B
Facility ID 65165
Callsign meaning K DeUSe ("Deuce")
Former callsigns KTMP (not used on air)
KUPD (1959-1978)
KKKQ (1978-1981)
KUKQ (1981-1997)
Affiliations NBC Sports Radio
Owner Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.
(Phoenix FCC License Sub, LLC)
Sister stations KSLX-FM, KDKB, KAZG, KUPD
Webcast Listen Live
Website nbcsports1060.com

KDUS (AM 1060), "NBC Sports Radio AM 1060," is a sports talk radio station broadcasting out of Tempe, Arizona and serving the Phoenix metropolitan radio market. It is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. and licensed to Phoenix FCC License Sub, LLC. Its studios are located in Tempe and its transmitter is in Guadalupe.

KDUS broadcasts on the clear-channel frequency of 1060 kHz; KYW and XEEP are the dominant Class A stations on that frequency.

Station history

1060 AM came to life in Tempe in 1959 with the callsign KUPD (pronounced Cupid). It was owned by the Tri-State Broadcasting Co. and by the 1960s featured Phoenix veteran Bill Heywood in the morning and a full-service middle of the road format competing with KOY, which then broadcast at 550. It went to a mainstream Top 40 format in the early '70s. Around 1971, they added a simulcast on 97.9/KUPD-FM, which remained Top 40 until about 1978 when the FM station switched to rock and became a dominant presence in the Phoenix radio market.

At that time, the station became "The New KQ" under Program Director Steve Casey (ex-KHJ and later one of the co-creators of MTV). The station played oldies with a less talk more music approach. Staff included Joe Bailey - mornings; Don Richards - Middays; Steve Casey - Afternoons. Don Richards would later take over as PD when Steve Casey left for MTV.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, AM 1060 cycled through various musical formats such as R&B as KKK, country ("KQ Country") as KUKQ, and then alternative as KUKQ, before flipping to sports talk in 1995. During this time, KUKQ's original license was not renewed as the result of a 1988 comparative renewal hearing for KUKQ and KUPD-FM, in which the stations lost their original licenses for lying to the Federal Communications Commission about an alleged secret owner. An additional owner was ruled unfit to hold a license due to a 1982 criminal conviction in Arizona.[1] The stations were instead awarded to former owner Jack Grimm, his wife Jackie, and Ruth Clifford, doing business as Tempe Radio, Inc. In 1992, Grimm and Clifford took over KUKQ and KUPD-FM on new licenses, retaining the call letters, facilities and formats of the stations.

For a brief period of time before the 1995 switch, some local radio references, considering its mix of alternative rock and its sister station status to KUPD, labeled the station "KUPD2". After the switch to sports, the station played off this handle and started referring to itself as "The Deuce," and the call letters officially shifted to KDUS in 1997. Once its identity as a sports talk station become established, KDUS stopped using "Deuce" in its slogans, and adopted "The Fan AM 1060" as its identifier ("The Fan" for short) and "The Voice of the Fan" as its slogan.

On April 1, 2013, The Fan AM 1060 changed its affiliation from Yahoo! Sports Radio to the brand new NBC Sports Radio and its branding to "NBC Sports Radio AM 1060".[2]

Programming

KDUS local programming consists of 11 hours Monday through Friday. Evening, overnight and weekend programming is syndicated by NBC Sports Radio. The station also has a history of carrying play-by-play for various Valley sports teams.

Play-by-play

Currently, KDUS is the Phoenix radio home of Northern Arizona University football and Notre Dame football. The station also broadcasts nationally syndicated NCAA and NFL football games and NCAA men's basketball games via the Sports USA Radio Network and Compass Media Networks. It is also the flagship station for Arizona State University baseball and ASU women's basketball.

KDUS was the flagship station of the National Hockey League's Phoenix Coyotes on AM from the team's first year in 1996 through the 2007-08 season, after which its rights were acquired by KGME.

KDUS carried the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals on AM from 1997 through the 2004 season, after which its rights were acquired by KTAR.

Since the AM signal of KDUS doesn't completely cover the Phoenix area, particularly at night, both the Cardinals and Coyotes arranged to have their games simulcast on FM sister stations KDKB or KSLX-FM.

(KDUS's logo under its previous "The Fan" branding)

References

  1. ↑ "Judge Revokes KUKQ & KUPD License" (PDF). Radio & Records. 18 August 1988. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  2. ↑ http://nbcsportsradioam1060.com/blog/the-fan-am-1060-becomes-nbc-sports-radio-am-1060-on-april-1st

Coordinates: 33°21′43″N 111°58′03″W / 33.36194°N 111.96750°W / 33.36194; -111.96750

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