KHVN

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KHVN

City of license	Fort Worth, Texas
Broadcast area	Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Branding	Heaven 97
Slogan	"Taking You Higher in Praise."
Frequency	970 kHz
First air date	1946 as KWBC
Format	Urban Contemporary Gospel
Power	1,000 watts daytime 270 watts nighttime
Class	B
Callsign meaning	HeaVeN
Former callsigns	KWBC (1946–1953), KNOK (1953–1982), KSAX (1982–1985)
Owner	Mortenson Broadcasting (Mortenson Broadcasting Co. of Texas, Inc.)
Sister stations	KGGR, K273BJ, KKGM, KRVA, KTNO
Website	khvnam.com

KHVN is an AM urban contemporary gospel radio station that serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The station has had its gospel format since 1985, and is owned by Mortenson Broadcasting. It is the sister station to daytimer KGGR. The station is licensed in Fort Worth, Texas, but KHVN has applied to move its broadcasting activities to Bedford.

History

This station started out as Daytimer KWBC in 1946 with a Variety/Ethnic format that comprises mostly local, amateur, and public service programming under the ownership of Associated Broadcasters.

In 1950, J. Dean McClain joined the station with his hour-long "Blues at Sunrise". program. By the late 1950s McClain was program director, and later was station manager and general manager.^[1]

By 1953, most commercial billings were from Ethnic shows, so their owners reimaged the station as KNOK to serve an African American audience.

By 1954, KNOK changed the format to R&B with Country and Spanish language programming on weekends. After 1957, KNOK became a full-time R&B station and was the first station in the DFW area to exclusively do so. In the late 1960s, the African American Clay Smothers, who later served in the Texas House of Representatives was the station news editor known for his conservative commentary.^[2]

From 1957 to 1979, it simulcasted to its FM sister station of the same callsign. In 1979, KNOK transferred its R&B format to KNOK-FM and changed its format to Jazz. Three years later, the station was renamed as KSAX (callsign to have stood for SAXophone) while maintaining its Jazz format before making its final switch to a Black Gospel formatted station as KHVN in 1985.

There have been rumors that KHVN 970 would be scheduled to go dark by New Year's Eve 2007 as part of the FCC's dial expansion program of 1989, in exchange for a frequency with a full day/night schedule on KKGM 1630. This move was scheduled for 1998 but Infinity/CBS Radio sold the frequency. Since Mortenson owns 970 and 1630, the divesting could feasibly still happen. As of 2010, it has not taken place.

Some churches featured on KHVN

Brenda Cherry along with Jim Blackwell on the Robert Ashley Show on KHVN.

Victory International Church, Fort Worth, TX^[3]
New Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas
East St. Paul Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas
Heaven's Embassy Church, DeSoto, Texas
Church of the Living Waters, Garland, Texas
Love Chapel Church of God in Christ, Grapevine, Texas
Evergreen Baptist Church, Irving, Texas
Owens Chapel Church of God In Christ, McKinney, Texas
Hebron Community Church, Grand Prairie, Texas
St. Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church, Denton, Texas
First Baptist Church of Hamilton Park, Richardson, Texas
Bear Creek Community Church, Irving, Texas
The Glorious Anointing Church Of God In Christ, Arlington, Texas
Praise Fellowship Worship Center, Frisco, Texas
Logos Fellowship Church, Cedar Hill, Texas
New Day Church, Bedford, Texas

Notes

↑ J. Dean McClain: Broadcaster's signature show brought R&B to D-FW radio, Dallas Morning News, April 17, 2006
↑ "Doris Eastman Harris, "Smothers ... New Voice of a Silent Majority", October 2, 1970". The Malakoff, Texas, News. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
↑ victoryreport.com

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KHVN

Radio-Locator Information on KHVN

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KHVN

Radio stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.5 88.5 88.7 89.1 89.3 89.5 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.1 92.5 92.9 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.3 95.5 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.1 99.5 100.3 100.7 101.1 101.7 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.3 103.7 104.5 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.7 106.9 107.1 107.5 107.9

By AM frequency	540 570 620 660 700 730 770 820¹ 850² 870² 890 910 970 990 1040² 1080¹ 1110² 1140 1160 1190 1220 1270 1310 1340 1360 1390 1420 1440 1460 1480 1540 1570 1600 1630 1700

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 (Dallas) 162.525 (Corsicana) 162.525 (Mineral Wells) 162.550 (Fort Worth)

Digital radio	570 1080 1270 1700 88.5-1 89.3-1 92.5-1 92.5-2 94.1-1 94.5-1 96.3-1 96.3-2 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.5-1 97.9-1 97.9-2 98.7-1 98.7-2 99.5-1 99.5-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 100.3-3 101.1-1 102.1-1 102.1-2 102.9-1 102.9-2 103.7-1 103.7-2 105.3-1 105.3-2 105.3-3 106.1-1 106.1-2 107.1-1 107.5-1 107.5-2 107.5-3 107.9-1 107.9-2

By callsign	K273BJ KAAM KAND KATH KAWA KBEC KBFB KBOC KBXD KCBI KCLE KDFT KDGE KDKR KDMX KDXX KEC55 KEC56 KEGL KEOM KERA KESN KESS-FM KEXB KFCD KFJZ² KFLC KFWR KFXR KFZO KGGR² KHFX KHKS KHSE KHVN KHYI KJKK KJON² KJRN KKDA KKDA-FM KKGM KKLF KKXT KLAK KLIF KLIF-FM KLNO KLTY KLUV KMNY KMQX KMVK KNON KNOR KNTU KPIR KPLX KPYK KRLD¹ KRLD-FM KRNB KRVA KRVF KSCS KSKY KSOC KSQX KTCK KTCK-FM KTCU KTFW KTNO KTXG KTXV KVCE KVIL KVTT² KWRD-FM KXEZ KXI87 KYDA KYQX KZEE KZMP KZMP-FM KZPS KZZA WBAP¹ WNG651 WRR

Internet radio	The Indie-Verse

Defunct	KTDK-FM 104.1

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Coordinates: 32°47′56″N 97°17′43″W / 32.79889°N 97.29528°W / 32.79889; -97.29528

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