KDUS

KDUS
City	Tempe, Arizona
Broadcast area	Phoenix metropolitan area
Branding	NBC Sports Radio AM 1060
Frequency	1060 kHz
First air date	1993 (as KUKQ)
Format	Sports Talk
Power	5,000 watts daytime 500 watts nighttime
Class	B
Facility ID	65165
Callsign meaning	K DeUSe ("Deuce")
Former callsigns	KUPD KKKQ KUKQ (1992-1997)
Affiliations	NBC Sports Radio
Owner	Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. (Phoenix FCC License Sub, LLC)
Sister stations	KSLX-FM, KDKB, KAZG, KUPD
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	nbcsportsradioam1060.com

KDUS, also known as "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.

Programming

KDUS local programming consists of 11 hours Monday through Friday from 7 AM to 9 AM and 11 AM to 8 PM. (NBC Sports Radio is broadcast from 9 AM to 11 AM.) 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

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.

Currently, KDUS is the radio home of Notre Dame football. The station also broadcasts AIA high school sports, as well as NCAA and NFL football games and NCAA men's basketball games via the Sports USA Radio Network or Compass Media Networks. KDUS is the flagship station for Arizona State University baseball and Arizona State Sun Devils Women's Basketball.

Station history

1060 was originally KUPD (pronounced "Cupid") in the 1960s with 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, the AM 1060 station cycled through various musical formats such as R&B as KKKQ, country ("KQ Country") as KUKQ, and then alternative as KUKQ, before flipping to sports talk in 1995.

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".^[1]

Previous logo

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

References

↑ http://nbcsportsradioam1060.com/blog/the-fan-am-1060-becomes-nbc-sports-radio-am-1060-on-april-1st

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KDUS

Radio-Locator Information on KDUS

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KDUS

Radio stations in the Phoenix metropolitan area

by AM frequency	550 620 710 740 860 910 960 1010 1060 1100 1150 1190 1230 1260 1280 1310 1330 1340 1360 1400 1440 1480 1510 1540 1580

by FM frequency	88.3¹/88.3² 88.7 89.1 89.5 89.9 90.3 90.7 91.5 92.3 92.7 93.3 93.9 94.1 94.5 95.1 95.5 96.3 96.9 97.5 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.1 99.3 (K257CD, KEMP, KRWV-LP) 99.5 99.9 100.3 100.7 101.1 101.5 102.1 102.5 103.1 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.7 105.3 105.5 105.9 106.3 106.9 107.1 107.5 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

by callsign	K257CD KAHM KAJM KASA KASC KAZG KBAQ KBMB KBSZ KCDX KCKY KDKB KDUS KDVA KEC94 KEMP KESZ KEXX KFLR-FM KFNN KFNX KFXY-LP KFYI KGME KHEP KHOT-FM KHOV KIDR KIHP KIKO KJZZ KKFR KKNT KLNZ KLVA KLVK KMLE KMVA KMVP KMVP-FM KMXP KNAI¹/KPHF² KNIX-FM KNRJ KNUV KOAI KOMR KOOL-FM KOY KPHQ-LP KPHX KPNG KPXQ KQMR KRDE KRPH KSLX-FM KSUN KSWG KTAR KTAR-FM KUPD KVIT KVVA-FM KWSS-LP KXEG KXXT KYOT-FM KZON KZZP

¹-Daytime hours ²-Nighttime hours (KNAI and KPHF are timeshare stations) Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 219 Sirius Channel 157 Nearby radio markets Flagstaff–Prescott Lake Havasu City Tucson Yuma See also List of radio stations in Arizona

Sports Radio Stations in the state of Arizona

Stations:	KCUB - Tucson KDUS - Tempe KFFN - Tucson KGME - Phoenix KMVP-FM - Phoenix KTAR - Phoenix KXFF - Colorado City

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Arizona See also ESPN Radio ESPN Deportes Radio Fox Sports Radio CBS Sports Radio NBC Sports Radio Yahoo! Sports Radio Sports Byline USA

Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.

Key people	Stanley S. Hubbard

Radio stations	KAZG KBHP KBLB KBUN KBUN-FM KDKB KDUS KIKV-FM KIXI KKNW KKWS KKZY KLIZ KLIZ-FM KLLZ-FM KNSP KQMV KRWM KSLX-FM KSTP KSTP-FM KTMY KUAL-FM KULO KUPD KVBR KVRQ KWAD WARH WBQH WDRV WFED WIL-FM WJJY-FM WKRQ WREW WSHE-FM WTMX WTOP-FM / WTLP / WWWT-FM WUBE-FM WWDV WWFD WXOS WYGY

ABC network affiliates	KAAL KSTP-TV / KSAX-TV / KRWF-TV WDIO-TV / WIRT

NBC network affiliates	KOB / KOBF-TV KOBR WHEC-TV WNYT

Other stations	K42DJ (Azteca)¹ KSTC-TV (Independent) WNYA (MyNetworkTV)

Cable television channels	Ovation Reelz

Acquisitions	Omni Broadcasting

¹Owned by Hubbard and operated by News-Press & Gazette Company in a LMA.

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

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