KPNW (AM)

KPNW (1120 kHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Eugene, Oregon, and serving the Eugene-Springfield area. It is owned by Bicoastal Media and it airs a talk radio format, known as "Newsradio 1120 and 93.7". The studios and offices are on Valley River Drive in Eugene. KPNW and Portland's KOPB-FM are Oregon's primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System.

KPNW is a Class B station. It is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial AM stations. As 1120 AM is a clear channel frquency reserved for Class A station KMOX in St. Louis, KPNW uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array full time to avoid interference. The signal covers the Western parts of Oregon in daytime and much of the West Coast of the United States and Western Canada at night. The transmitter is on Hideaway Hills in Creswell. KPNW is also heard in Eugene, Springfield and adjacent communities on 250-watt FM translator K229DC at 93.7 MHz.

Programming
Weekday mornings on KPNW begin with Wake Up Call, an information and interview show with local hosts Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder. The rest of the day includes nationally syndicated programs: Markley, Van Camp, & Robbins, The Dana Loesch Show, Infowars with Alex Jones, This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal, The Lars Larson Show (Larson was a one-time news intern at KPNW) and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.

Weekends include shows focusing on money, health, home repair, religion and the outdoors. Syndicated weekend shows include The Glenn Beck Radio Program, At Home with Gary Sullivan, Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell, Music and the Spoken Word, Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham and The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra. Some weekday shows are also repeated on weekends. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.

History
The station signed on the air on February 12, 1962. The original call sign was KPIR and it broadcast on 1500 kHz. KPIR was a daytimer station, powered at 10,000 watts using a nondirectional antenna but required to go off the air at night.

The call sign was changed to KPNW on September 25, 1967. Shortly afterward, the station's owner, Emerald Broadcasting Corporation, changed its name to Pacific Northwest Broadcasting Corporation.

For most of the 1960s and 1970s, KPNW had a middle of the road format, with popular adult music, news and sports. It was a network affiliate of ABC Radio. In 1968, it added a sister station, 99.1 KPNW-FM. At first, the two stations mostly simulcast their programming, but KPNW-FM eventually had its own format of beautiful music. Today, it is KODZ.

In May 1969, KPNW moved to the current 1120 kHz frequency. It increased power to 50,000 watts and began using a directional antenna. The directional signal is necessary to avoid causing interference to KMOX in St. Louis, which is the dominant Class A station on the same frequency. At 50,000 watts full-time, KPNW is the most powerful AM station on the West Coast between San Francisco and Portland.

Translator
KPNW also broadcasts on the following translator: