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Coordinates:38°15′44.7″N122°16′59.9″W / 38.262417°N 122.283306°W /38.262417; -122.283306

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Radio station in California, United States

KVON
Napa, California United States

Broadcast area	Napa County Sonoma County
Frequency	1440kHz
Branding	Mega Mix 1440/96.9
Programming
Language	Spanish
Format	Spanish AC
Ownership
Owner	Wilfred Alexander Marcencia and Julissa Marcencia (Wine Down Media LLC)
Sister stations	KVYN
History
First air date	November 17,1947
Technical information^[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	74430
Class	B
Power	5,000 watts day 1,000 watts night
Transmitter coordinates	38°15′44.7″N122°16′59.9″W / 38.262417°N 122.283306°W /38.262417; -122.283306
Translator	96.9 K245DK (Napa)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	www.kvon.com

KVON (1440kHz) is acommercial AM radio station broadcasting aSpanish AC radioformat.Licensed toNapa, California, it serves theNapa County/Sonoma County region ofNorthern California. The station is owned by Wilfred Alexander Marcencia and Julissa Marcencia, through licensee Wine Down Media LLC.

By day, KVON's transmitter broadcasts a 5,000-watt signal. At night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1440 AM, the station reduces transmitter power to 1,000 watts. The station uses adirectional antenna pattern at all times utilizing a 4-tower array during daytime and 3-tower array during nighttime operations.^[2] The station's transmitter and antenna array are located at a site south of theNapa, California, adjacent to theNapa River. The station also simulcasts on the FM band on 96.9 MHz with 12 watts from an antenna that is co-located on a site it shares with KVYN nearYountville, California.

History

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On November 17, 1947, KVON firstsigned on.^[3] Originally it broadcast with 500 watts of power around the clock, before getting a power increase.^[4] The station was owned by Thomas L. Young from 1971 to 1996. During Young's ownership, he foundedsister station KVYN which went on the air in 1975.^[5]^[6]

In May 2017 an announcement was made that the station along withKVYN had been sold by Wine Country Broadcasting to Wine Down Media for $425,000. The transaction was consummated on August 1, 2017.^[7]

On December 14, 2021, KVON announced that it would flip to Spanish language programming on January 3, 2022, and some previous programming elements would move to sister stationKVYN.^[8] The station is currently the only station inNapa County broadcasting in Spanish 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The format is Spanish AC, branded as "Mega Mix 1440/96.9.^[8] The switchover to the new format is a culmination of a 5 year transition, bourne out of several events starting with theOctober 2017 Northern California wildfires, followed by the2019 California power shutoffs and theCOVID-19 pandemic. Over one third of Napa County's population is Latino and during these events, Spanish speaking residents had a difficult time retrieving and understanding coverage and implications of these events at the local level.^[9] The station's ownership was granted a license to broadcast by theFCC on December 8, 2021.^[10]

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References

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^"Facility Technical Data for KVON".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
^Radio-Locator.com/KVON
^"Directory of Radio Stations in the United States and Canada"(PDF).Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-23. RetrievedJanuary 14, 2024.
^"Mayor to Pull Switch as KVON Napa Starts"(PDF). Broadcasting. December 15, 1947. RetrievedOctober 27, 2014.
^Sestito, Maria (December 1, 2015)."Former radio station owner dies at age 94".Napa Valley Register. Napa, CA: Lee Enterprises, Inc. RetrievedDecember 5, 2015.
^"Thomas L. Young".Napa Valley Register. Napa, CA: Lee Enterprises, Inc. December 4, 2015. RetrievedDecember 5, 2015.
^Huffman, Jennifer (May 14, 2017)."New owners for Napa radio stations KVYN/KVON".Napa Valley Register. Napa, CA: Lee Enterprises, Inc. RetrievedMay 14, 2017.
^^a ^b"KVON Relaunches As MegaMix".RadioInsight. RetrievedJanuary 3, 2022.
^Yune, Howard (January 15, 2022)."New format, new mission: KVON radio lifts Spanish language to the Napa Valley airwaves".Napa Valley Register. Napa, CA: Lee Enterprises, Inc. RetrievedJanuary 16, 2022.
^"K245DK-FX".radio-locator. RetrievedJanuary 13, 2024.

External links

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FCC History Cards for KVON
Facility details for Facility ID 74430 (KVON) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
KVON inNielsen Audio's AM station database
Facility details for Facility ID 202889 (K245DK) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
K245DK at FCCdata.org

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