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| Broadcast area | Las Vegas Valley |
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| Frequency | 1460kHz |
| Branding | 1460 Deportes Vegas |
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| Language | Spanish |
| Format | Sports radio |
| Affiliations | TUDN Radio Las Vegas Lights FC Las Vegas Raiders Vegas Golden Knights |
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| History | |
First air date | January 1941 (1941-01) |
Former frequencies | 1370 kHz (1941) |
Call sign meaning | The casino gameKeno |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 38449 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 10,000 watts day 620 watts night |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°11′25″N115°10′35″W / 36.19028°N 115.17639°W /36.19028; -115.17639 |
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| Website | www |
KENO (1460AM) is a Spanish languagesports talk radio station inLas Vegas, Nevada, owned byLotus Communications.[2] It is affiliated withTUDN Radio.
Its studios are located in the unincorporated community ofSpring Valley inClark County and its transmitter is located northwest of downtown Las Vegas.
KENO, Las Vegas' first successful radio station, was founded in 1941 by Laura Belle and Maxwell Kelch. (John Heaton had operated KGIX from 1930 to 1935, but low power and limited hours made it unprofitable.) For much of its early history, KENO broadcast out of theEl Rancho Vegas onLas Vegas Boulevard. Southern Nevada's first radio show was called "Listen Ladies" and was hosted by Laura Belle Kelch.Listen Ladies provided home and household advice to women in the 1940s.
The station played top 40 from the 1950s to the early 1980s, using the slogan "Music Radio 1460" in the 1960s and 70s. KENO also had anFM station at 92.3, until 1982 when it changed itscall sign toKOMP and began playingalbum-oriented rock. KENO 1460 switched to AC/oldies in the early 1980s and then went to the straight oldies format in the latter part of the decade around 1987 and 1988. The oldies format lasted until 1993.
KENO was originally on 1370 kHz. Under theNARBA treaty of March, 1941 it moved to 1400 kHz. It moved to 1460 kHz in 1951.
Prior to switching to Spanish, KENO was the Las Vegas affiliate of theJim Rome Show. The station was the flagship station for theLas Vegas 51s, then the Class AAA affiliate of theLos Angeles Dodgers.
On March 3, 2008, the station changed its format toESPN Deportes Radio, and the previous programming was moved toKBAD 920 kHz. KBAD's programming was moved to 1100 kHz,KWWN. After ESPN Deportes Radio shut down in 2019, its format continued to remain although the station was renamed to "Deportes Vegas".[3]
KENO is the flagship station for Spanish-language broadcasts of theVegas Golden Knights of theNational Hockey League. In 2017, an agreement was made for KENO to broadcast select Golden Knights games which made the Golden Knights the third team in the NHL to offer Spanish-language radio broadcasts.[4][5][6]
KENO is the flagship station for Spanish-language broadcasts of theLas Vegas Raiders of theNational Football League. The station started carrying the games in 2020 and is the flagship for a group of eight stations across Nevada and California carrying Raider games in Spanish.[7]
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