Audacy made a trade for news/talk station 720 AM KDWN in Las Vegas in 2022, sending ALT 107.5 to Beasley Media Group. Now, the company has turned in the license for the AM station.
After originally signing on the air in 1975, KDWN became known as “The Talk of Las Vegas,” and was the original home of Art Bell before taking Coast to Coast AM into national syndication. The station was also one of the first affiliates of Rush Limbaugh when he launched into syndication in 1988.
After being acquired by Beasley in 2006, the station was traded to Audacy in 2022, with the company selling the transmitter site for the station for $40 million. The AM signal subsequently went dark on March 1, 2023, with programming continuing on an HD radio signal and an FM translator.
The station is still heard on 101.5 FM in the market.
The company set a March 1st deadline to resume operations on the AM signal for both KDWN and its 1140 AM KXST (sports betting) station. In September, it filed a plan to combine the station with KXNT’s tower site in North Las Vegas, which would have allowed the station to operate with its previous 25,000 watts of daytime power. However, the plans fizzled, leading Audacy to turn in the licenses for both signals.
