KGME

KGME

City of license	Phoenix, Arizona
Broadcast area	Phoenix metropolitan area
Branding	XTRA Sports 910
Slogan	The Valley's Sports Leader
Frequency	910 kHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	1940
Format	Sports Talk
Power	5,000 watts
Class	B
Facility ID	65480
Callsign meaning	GaME
Former callsigns	KPHO, KJJJ, KFYI
Affiliations	Fox Sports Radio
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Sister stations	KESZ, KFYI, KMXP, KNIX, KOY, KYOT, KZZP
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	xtra910.com

KGME, branded XTRA Sports 910, is a sports radio station located in Phoenix, Arizona and serving the Phoenix metropolitan area. KGME is owned by Clear Channel Communications, the former owners of Mexican station XETRA in Southern California, where the XTRA name came from.

The station's weekday lineup is as follows: Dan Patrick (7am-10am), Jim Rome (10am-1pm), and "Bickley and MJ" with Arizona Republic columnist Dan Bickley and Mike Jurecki (2pm-6pm), along with Fox Sports Radio at night and from 1pm-2pm. Fox Sports Radio also airs in most weekend and overnight timeslots. "Bickley and MJ" was named Sports Talk Show of the year in 2007 by Phoenix Magazine and Sports Talk Show of the year in 2007 by the Phoenix New Times. KGME has been nominated in 2007 and 2008 for the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Marconi Award for Sports Station of the year.

Since 2008-2009, KGME is the flagship station of the Phoenix Coyotes. The rest of KGME's play-by-play comes from Westwood One, including primetime National Football League games and the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. It also airs NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.

Station history

910 was originally KPHO (now the call letters of the Phoenix CBS TV affiliate), operating on 1230 from 1940-1949; the station moved to 910 in 1949. In 1971, it changed call letters to KJJJ as "Big Country KJ" until 1986, when it would become KFYI, being purchased by Fred Weber's Broadcast Group. KFYI implemented a highly successful talk format, and became the home to hosts that would go on to greater success, such as Tom Leykis.

In 1999, Broadcast Group sold to AMFM, formerly Chancellor. On September 25, 2000, after AMFM merged with Clear Channel Communications, KFYI moved to AM 550 to obtain a better signal, swapping frequencies with what is now KGME. Clear Channel rebranded KGME as XTRA Sports 910 to match the "XTRA" branding of their other sports-talk properties.

The KGME call letters and sports talk format had been operating on AM 550 under the branding "KGME Sports Radio 550," and had only jumped to 550 a year earlier (April 23, 1999) from AM 1360 in a three-way frequency swap involving heritage station KOY. In KGME's 1360 days (1994-99), the station was Phoenix's only full-time sports station and branded itself "The Game." Mike Golic was a show host on the station along with Tony Femino in 1994. Other hosts included Bruce Jacobs and Arnie Spanier.

External links

• KGME Website
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KGME
• Radio-Locator Information on KGME
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KGME