KORE | |
City: | Springfield-Eugene, Oregon |
Branding: | 1050 & 102.9 - Fox Sports Eugene |
Frequency: | 1050 kHz |
Airdate: | 1927 |
Format: | Sports |
Power: | 5,000 watts day 105 watts night |
Class: | D |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
Facility Id: | 64034 |
Callsign Meaning: | Oregon[1] |
Affiliations: | Fox Sports Radio |
Owner: | KORE Broadcasting, LLC |
Webcast: | Listen Live |
Website: | foxsportseugene.com |
KORE (1050 AM) is a radio station in Eugene, Oregon, licensed to Springfield and Eugene. The station is owned by KORE Broadcasting, LLC.[2]
KORE is Eugene's oldest radio station. It originally signed on from Portland in 1927 as KLIT but moved to Eugene and acquired the call sign KORE a few months later. Originally a full-service radio station, it switched to country in 1970 and adopted a Christian format in 1973.
The long-running religious program, The World Tomorrow, originated on KORE in 1933.
On June 15, 2016, KORE went silent. On November 23, 2016, KORE resumed broadcasting as Sports-Talk with programming from Fox Sports Radio.
KORE also broadcasts on the following FM translator:
KORE is simulcast on KLSR-TV when KLSR is off the air.