| KNGN | |
| City: | McCook, Nebraska |
| Frequency: | 1360 kHz |
| Translator: | K252FV (98.3 MHz, McCook) |
| Airdate: | June 23, 1961 |
| Format: | Religious |
| Power: | 1,000 watts day |
| Class: | D |
| Facility Id: | 65925 |
| Coordinates: | 40.1958°N -100.6992°W |
| Callsign Meaning: | Kansas Nebraska Good News |
| Former Callsigns: | KWRV (1961–1966) KICX (1966–1990) |
| Owner: | My Bridge |
| Website: | http://www.kngn.org/ |
| Licensing Authority: | FCC |
KNGN (1360 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious music format.[1] It is licensed to McCook, Nebraska and owned by My Bridge.[2]
KWRV signed on the air on June 23, 1961.[3] It was owned by the Regional Broadcasting Corporation and maintained studios on Norris Street in McCook. KWRV was knocked off the air for two hours one day in May 1962 when a snake pursued a mouse into its transmitter.[4]
KWRV was sold in 1966 to Semeco Broadcasting Corporation—named for principals Walter E. Sehnert, Vernon A. Meints, and KWRV general sales manager W. O. Corrick—for $91,000.[5] The new owners changed the station's call letters to KICX effective May 19, 1966. The station maintained a middle-of-the-road music format and affiliations with the ABC Information and Intermountain networks. KICX's programming began to be simulcast on KICX-FM 95.9 when that station signed on January 31, 1979.[6]
Semeco, now owned by Corrick's estate, sold KICX-AM-FM to Ron Crowe and Associates for $200,000 in 1989.[7] In order to buy another McCook station, KSWN, Crowe had to spin off a station, and he chose to donate KICX AM to the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.[8] The station relaunched as KNGN, for "Kansas Nebraska Good News", on April 8, 1990.[9] Locally, the station was operated by Peace Lutheran Church and relied heavily on programming from the synod's KFUO in St. Louis.[10]
However, as time went on, the synod could no longer afford to continue running the station. As a result, in 2001, the station's license was transferred to the locally based Kansas Nebraska Good News Broadcasting Corporation.[11] The station also relocated from its original studios at Peace Lutheran to a larger facility at a former country school in McCook.
In 2018, the station added an FM translator, K252FV on 98.3 MHz. The new translator enabled the station to go 24-hours for the first time in its history.
On August 2, 2022, the station's owners filed to transfer the broadcast license to MyBridge Radio.[12] The sale, which included translator K252FV, was consummated on May 22, 2023 at a price of $40,000.