KRVN (AM)

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KRVN
KRVN (AM) logo.jpg
City of license Lexington, Nebraska
Broadcast area Grand Island-Kearney-Hastings-Cozad-Gothenburg
Branding Rural Radio Rural Voice
Frequency 880 kHz
Format News Talk Information
Audience share 3.2, #9 (Fa'07, R&R[1])
Power 50,000 watts
HAAT 271.2 meters
Class B
Facility ID 48002
Transmitter coordinates 40°30′57.00″N 99°23′47.00″W / 40.51583°N 99.39639°W / 40.51583; -99.39639
Callsign meaning K Rural Voice of Nebraska
Owner Nebraska Rural Radio Association
Website krvn.com

KRVN 880 is an AM radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Its operators launched a sister music station with a similar callsign, KRVN-FM (River 93.1), in 1962.[2] Licensed to Lexington, Nebraska, USA, the station serves the central and western Nebraska area.[3] The station features agricultural news programming.[4]

KRVN is the second most powerful station in Nebraska, at 50,000 watts. During the day, it broadcasts from an 890-foot tower that covers almost all of Nebraska, as well as more than half of Kansas. As night, it switches to a directional four-tower setup to protect WCBS in New York City. Even with this arrangement, it is able to beam classic country music to western Nebraska, northwestern Kansas and northeastern Colorado.

The KRVN network is unique in that it is owned and operated by a cooperative of farmers and ranchers, the Nebraska Rural Radio Association, founded in 1948 and opening its first station, KRVN, in 1951.[2][3]

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