KLWN

Branding Depend On It
Format News Talk Information
Power 500 watts day
250 watts night
Class B
Facility ID 36744
Callsign meaning K LaWreNce
Affiliations Fox News Radio, Westwood One, Fox Sports Radio, Jayhawk IMG Sports Network
Owner Great Plains Media, Inc.
Sister stations KKSW, KMXN, WKSW, WGSQ, WHUB, WPTN, WDQZ, WRPW, WYST
Webcast
Website klwn.com

KLWN (1320 AM and 101.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, US. The station is currently owned by Great Plains Media, Inc. and features programing from Fox News Radio, Westwood One and Fox Sports Radio.[1]

The station also broadcasts University of Kansas football and basketball. KLWN is the flagship radio station of the Jayhawk IMG Sports Network. KLWN is also an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals and carries the entire NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship from Westwood One.

KLWN's FM counterpart is KKSW, which used to have the KLWN call letters and identified itself as "The Music Station, 106."

The stations were owned for years by Arden Booth, who also served as a Kansas State Senator. Booth had a five-minute daily poetry program called "Poetic License." His son Hank served as general manager, morning news anchor and play-by-play voice of Lawrence High School football games.

The current local lineup consists of the KLWN Morning News Watch with John Flood and Tyler Jones from 6 - 8am, According to the Record with Hank Booth from 8 - 9am, Radio for Grownups with Joel Becker from 9am - Noon, The Clark Howard Show from 12 - 3pm and Rock Chalk Sports Talk with Nick Schwerdt from 3 - 6pm.

Saturday programming includes Thinking Out Loud with Tyler Jones from 7 - 10am.

Personalities

  • Ed Abels, newscaster (1952–1955) was also host of Comments on Local Affairs.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "KLWN Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ Sies, Luther F. (2014). Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920–1960, 2nd Edition, Volume 1. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-5149-4. P. 10.


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