KDWN

KDWN (720 kHz) is a commercial AM and FM radio station in Las Vegas, Nevada, owned and operated by Beasley Broadcast Group. The station pronounces its call letters as "K-Dawn." The station's studios are located in the unincorporated Clark County area of Spring Valley. Its transmitter is on Galleria Drive in Henderson. Programming is simulcast on 250-watt FM translator station K268CS at 101.5 MHz. KDWN airs a talk radio format. It runs several nationally syndicated conservative talk hosts, along with local shows, most of which are brokered programming. National hosts include Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. Other hours are devoted to money, health, real estate and sports. In most cases, the local hosts pay for their time on the air and are permitted to run their own advertising. Most hours on weekdays begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio. A local staff provides Nevada news, weather and traffic. Weather coverage is supplied by NBC Network affiliate KSNV Channel 3. KDWN broadcasts with 25,000 watts during daytime hours. But because 720 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WGN in Chicago, KDWN must reduce power to 7,500 watts at night to avoid interference. It uses a three-tower array for its directional antenna. From the 1980s until the 2000s, KDWN broadcast around the clock at 50,000 watts, with its nighttime signal heard throughout most of the Western United States, north into Canada and south into Mexico. KDWN broadcasts using HD radio technology and is heard on the HD-2 digital subchannel of co-owned 96.3 KKLZ. KDWN is Southern Nevada's primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.