KJR (AM)
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KJR (950 kHz) is an all-sports AM radio station owned by iHeartMedia in Seattle, Washington. KJR is the Puget Sound region's home of Fox Sports Radio and Infinity Sports Network, mostly carrying their national programming, while co-owned KJR-FM has local sports talk shows during the day and evening. KJR-AM-FM are the flagship stations for Seattle Kraken hockey. During the Seattle Seahawks season, the stations use the slogan "Home of the 12th Man". The studios are in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood northwest of downtown.
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Broadcast area | Seattle metropolitan area |
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Frequency | 950 kHz |
Branding | Sports Radio 950 KJR |
Programming | |
Format | Sports |
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Ownership | |
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KBKS-FM, KHHO, KJAQ, KJEB, KJR-FM, KPTR, KZOK-FM | |
History | |
First air date | March 9, 1922; 102 years ago (1922-03-09) (experimental under calls 7XC 1917-1922) |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 48386 |
Class | B |
Power | 50,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 47°26′0″N 122°28′2″W[2] |
Repeater(s) | 95.7 KJEB-HD2 (Seattle) |
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Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | 950kjr.iheart.com |
KJR is among the oldest radio stations in the United States, tracing its lineage back to an experimental station in 1920. It is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial AM stations. It uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array to protect other stations on 950 AM from interference. The transmitter is on 105th Avenue SW on Vashon Island.[3]