KXXT (1010AM) is aradio station broadcasting aChristian talk and instructional format. Licensed toTolleson, Arizona,United States, the station serves thePhoenix area. KXXT uses the slogan "Family Values Radio" and is owned bySalem Media Group (under the licensee Salem Communications Holding Corporation).^[2]

KXXT is co-owned withTalk radioKKNT 960 AM Phoenix andKPXQ 1360 AM inGlendale, which also broadcasts a Christian radio format. KXXT operates with 23,000watts by day, and can be heard as far south asTucson and as far north asCottonwood. But, because 1010kHz is a Canadianclear channel frequency forToronto'sCFRB andCBR inCalgary, KXXT must reduce its power to 300 watts at night to reduce interference with those stations, rendering it effectively unlistenable outside of Phoenix proper after itscritical hours reduction to 9,800 watts.

Harold Lampel and Dawkins Espy received the construction permit forKINK in 1958. Dawkins Espy was involuntarily removed from the license in 1961, at which time theKCAC calls were adopted; the station was sold to KCAC Broadcasting, Inc. in 1962. Construction of the facility began on July 19, 1962.^[3]

KCAC's studios were located at 20 E. Broadway, in Phoenix.^[4] It was one of the few radio stations inArizona that were African American-owned and -operated. Among its DJs were Jim Titus, who, while at KRIZ radio in 1958, had become Phoenix's first African-American radio announcer.^[5]

KCAC's management decided to change to a Spanish-language format four years later, putting it in competition withKIFN, the original Spanish-language station in Phoenix, but the station was not a success.^[6]

KCAC switched to afree-form format whenWilliam Edward Compton became its station manager in 1969. He served in that capacity and as a DJ until 1971. In an attempt to describe its free-form format in 1970, a guest columnist inThe Arizona Republic described it thus:

Free-form programming as used by KCAC allows the individual announcer complete discretion. This allows some of the innovations in rock air time denied under Top 40 programming, as well as opening the door to other musical forms. A typical show on KCAC will include elements of jazz, blues, folk, classical, hillbilly, country, soul and, of course rock. The absence of prescheduled news programs allows occasional hour-and-a-half collages of uninterrupted music.^[7]

In November 1970, KCAC went bankrupt, and it was involuntarily assigned to a receiver. On August 14, 1971, the station went silent. When KCAC went bankrupt in 1971, Compton collaborated with KDKB co-owner Dwight Tindle to "invent" KDKB and its air sound.^[8] Several KCAC DJs made the move with Compton to KDKB—including Gary Kinsey (on-air name, Toad Hall) and Hank Cookenboo.^[9]

The 1010 AM frequency was subsequently bought by Golden West Christian School and reemerged asKHCS, with religious programming, in January 1972.^[10][11] The station fell back into bankruptcy with Golden West in December 1973, and nearly two years into receivership, the station was finally sold to Harold S. Schwartz and Associates, owners and operators of religious stations. In June 1976, Schwartz put a new, all-solid-state transmitter into service—believed to be the first in the world.^[12]

That August, KHCS relocated from Phoenix to Tolleson and increased its power to 1,000 watts; it also began broadcasting at night with 250 watts. KHCS becameKXEG on April 13, 1978.^[13]

KXEG was primarily a religious station, but it also carried overflow coverage ofArizona State University sports in the late 1980s and 1990s whenKTAR had other sports events to carry^[14] as well asGrand Canyon University basketball.

KXEG became news-talk KXEM on July 11, 2001 (on the same day, sister station KTKP retained the Christian format andKXEG call letters). On September 7, 2004, the station changed its call sign to the current KXXT, which was accompanied by a format change toAir America progressive talk radio under the name1010 Talk. In October 2005, owner James Crystal Enterprises sold three stations, including KXXT and KXEG, to Communicom, which mostly owned stations with religious formats.^[15] The format change occurred on February 1, 2006;^[16] Air America programs would move toKPHX 1480 AM by the end of March.

In January 2011, after theassassination attempt against then-Arizona RepresentativeGabby Giffords, KXXT national talk show host Steve Sanchez of The Steve Sanchez Show offered 30 minutes of airtime toWestboro Baptist Church in exchange for the Church agreeing not to protest at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Green who was killed during the assassination attempt.^[17]

In June 2014, Salem Communications, a national radio broadcaster focusing on Christian and conservative values programming, purchased KXXT in a bankruptcy auction for $575,000.^[18] Salem took full control of the station on October 1.^[19]

• Facility details for Facility ID 54742 (KXXT) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• KXXT inNielsen Audio's AM station database
• FCC History Cards for KXXT
• KCAC lives!—a blog devoted to the memory of KCAC
• KCAC recordings available on the Internet Archive

• Radio stations established in 1962
• Christian radio stations in Arizona
• 1962 establishments in Arizona
• Salem Media Group radio stations

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