KDUS

KDUS

City of license	Tempe, Arizona
Broadcast area	Phoenix metropolitan area
Branding	The Fan 1060
Frequency	1060 (kHz)
Format	Sports Talk
Power	5,000 watts daytime 500 watts nighttime
Class	B
Facility ID	65165
Callsign meaning	K DeUSe ("Deuce")
Former callsigns	KUPD, KKKQ, KUKQ
Affiliations	Yahoo! Sports Radio
Owner	Sandusky Radio (Tempe Radio, Inc.)
Sister stations	KSLX-FM, KDKB, KAZG, KUPD
Website	thefan1060.com

KDUS, also known as "The Fan," "The Fan 1060," or "The Fan AM 1060," is a sports talk radio station broadcasting out of Tempe, Arizona and serving the Phoenix metropolitan radio market. It is owned by Sandusky Radio and licensed to Tempe Radio, Inc.

Programming

The Fan 1060 consists of 8 hours of local programming Monday through Friday from 10 AM to 6 PM local time, starting with The SportsZone w/ Bob Kemp from 10-1, The Bertrand Berry Show (hosted by retired Arizona Cardinal Bertrand Berry) from 1-3, and Calling All Sports with Roc & Manuch from 3-6. Overnight programming is syndicated by Yahoo! Sports Radio. The station also has a history of carrying play-by-play for various Valley sports teams.

Play-by-Play

KDUS was the flagship station of the National Hockey League's Phoenix Coyotes on AM from the team's first year in 1996 through the 2007-08 season, after which its rights were acquired by KGME.

KDUS carried the National Football League's Arizona Cardinals on AM from 1997 through the 2004 season, after which its rights were acquired by KTAR.

Since The Fan's AM signal doesn't completely cover the Phoenix area, particularly at night, both the Cardinals and Coyotes arranged to have their games simulcast on FM sister stations KDKB or KSLX.

Currently, The Fan is the radio home of Nebraska football in the Phoenix metro area, thanks to a brokered arrangement with local Cornhuskers alumni. It is also the Phoenix home of the national broadcast of Notre Dame football. The station also broadcasts AIA high school sports, as well as NCAA and NFL football games via the Sports USA Radio Network. KDUS is the flagship station for Arizona State University baseball.

In 2009 and 2010 The Fan broadcast selected games of the World Series on ESPN Radio after rights-holder KTAR could not air them due to its own play-by-play commitments.

Station History

1060 was originally KUPD (pronounced "Cupid") in the 1960s with Phoenix veteran Bill Heywood in the morning and a full-service middle of the road format competing with KOY, which then broadcast at 550. It went to a mainstream Top 40 format in the early 70's. Around 1971, they added a simulcast on 97.9 FM KUPD-FM, which remained Top 40 until about 1978 when the FM station switched to rock and became a dominant presence in the Phoenix radio market.

At that time, the station became "The New KQ" under Program Director Steve Casey (ex - KHJ and later one of the co-creators of MTV) The station played oldies with a less talk more music approach. Staff included Joe Bailey - mornings; Don Richards - Middays; Steve Casey - Afternoons. Don Richards would later take over as PD when Steve Casey left for MTV.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, the AM 1060 station cycled through various musical formats such as R&B as KKKQ, country ("KQ Country") as KUKQ, and then alternative as KUKQ, before flipping to sports talk in 1995.

For a brief period of time before the 1995 switch, some local radio references, considering its mix of alternative rock and its sister station status to KUPD, labeled the station "KUPD2". After the switch to sports, the station played off this handle and started referring to itself as "The Deuce," and the call letters officially shifted to KDUS in 1997. Once its identity as a sports talk station become established, KDUS stopped using "Deuce" in its slogans, and adopted "The Fan AM 1060" as its identifier and "The Voice of the Fan" as its slogan.

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KDUS
• Radio-Locator Information on KDUS
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KDUS
• Calling All Sports and Calling All Sports Saturday