KHVN

KHVN (970 AM) is a radio station that serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. The station is licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, but KHVN has applied to move its broadcasting activities to Bedford.
History.
This station started out as daytime-only KWBC in with a Variety/Ethnic format that comprises mostly local, amateur, and public service programming under the ownership of Associated Broadcasters.
In , J. Dean McClain joined the station with his hour-long "Blues at Sunrise". program. By the late McClain was program director, and later was station manager and general manager.
By , most commercial billings were from Ethnic shows, so their owners reimaged the station as KNOK-AM to serve an African American audience.
By , KNOK-AM changed the format to R&B with Country and Spanish language programming on weekends. After , KNOK-AM became a full-time R&B station and was the first station in the DFW area to exclusively do so. In the late , the African American Clay Smothers, who later served in the Texas House of Representatives was the station news editor known for his conservative commentary.
From to , it simulcasted to its FM sister station of the same callsign. In , KNOK-AM transferred its R&B format to sister station KNOK-FM and changed its format to Jazz. Three years later, the station was renamed as KSAX (callsign to have stood for SAXophone) while maintaining its Jazz format before making its final switch to a Black Gospel formatted station as KHVN in as "Heaven 97".
There have been rumors that KHVN would be scheduled to go dark by New Year's Eve, 2007 as part of the FCC's dial expansion program of , in exchange for a frequency with a full day/night schedule on KKGM. This move was scheduled for but Infinity/CBS Radio sold the frequency. Since Mortenson owns and , the divesting could feasibly still happen. it has not taken place.
On , iHeartMedia announced the purchase of KHVN and sister station KKGM from Mortenson Broadcasting for ; including its respective translators K237HD and K221GV. The deal includes a Local marketing agreement (LMA) that took effect from until full consummation. The purchase also allowed iHeartMedia to max out its DFW cluster threshold. Later on December 24, it was announced that both stations will join the Black Information Network as affiliates on , jettisoning the gospel formats.
On January 2, 2021, KHVN and KKGM began stunting with African American speeches, interspersed with messages such as "Our Voices Will Be Heard" and "Our side of the story is about to be told," with the new BIN format officially launching on January 4 at 12:00p.m. The new format will compete with Entercom’s heritage all-news station KRLD.