KPHX

KPHX is a radio station that broadcasts in Phoenix, Arizona. During the day, it runs a directional 5,000 watts and 500 watts directional at night. The station is currently silent.HistoryThe station at 1480 AM signed on the air on June 10, 1958 as a daytime-only Country music station called KHAT. This format stayed in place until 1972, when it went all-news as KPHX, which only lasted about a year. The format and callsign changes accompanied a 1972 sale to Phoenix Broadcasting Co. This period saw additional changes, including a power increase from 500 to 1,000 watts. Around 1974, with its sale to the Riverside Amusement Park Company, KPHX became a Spanish language station and remained one for approximately 30 years. By 1982, KPHX had started operating at night, using two transmitter sites to provide the daytime and nighttime service.Starting in 2004, KPHX aired a syndicated all-comedy format which remained for nearly two years. KPHX flipped to an adult standards format in 2006, with the Music of Your Life network.Progressive talk formatAfter KXXT (1010 kHz AM), the Phoenix affiliate of Air America Radio since the fall of 2004, was sold to a station group known as Communicom in January 2006, and as a result changed to a Christian radio format by March 2006, the progressive format disappeared from the Phoenix radio airwaves. In late March 2006, the owners of KPHX entered into a local marketing agreement with Sheldon Drobny's Nova M Radio thus bringing the Air America progressive/liberal talk format to KPHX.