KXNT (AM)

KXNT (840 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. and carries a talk radio format The station's studios are located in the unincorporated Clark County area of Spring Valley, while KXNT's transmitter is located near Nellis Air Force Base and serves the Las Vegas Valley.
KXNT is a Class B station operating on a clear channel frequency. WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky is the dominant Class A station on 840 AM, so KXNT must reduce its power at night, to avoid interfering with WHAS's signal. KXNT operates at 50,000 watts by day and 25,000 watts at night. KXNT has been granted an FCC construction permit to move to the KXST transmitter site and decrease night power to 10,000 watts.
KXNT is licensed to broadcast in the HD radio format. It is also heard on the HD-3 channel of sister station 94.1 KMXB.
Programming.
KXNT airs both local and nationally syndicated talk shows. Weekday programs include "This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal"; Glenn Beck; Rush Limbaugh; Ben Shapiro; Dana Loesch; Joe Pags; Dave Ramsey; Alan Stock and "Coast to Coast AM" with George Noory.
Weekends feature shows on money, politics, health, law, real estate, home repair and computers. Syndicated hosts include Kim Komando; Ben Ferguson; Larry Elder and Ric Edelman. Some hours are paid brokered programming.
KXNT carries CBS News Radio and financial reports from Bloomberg Radio. It has a local news alliance with Channel 8 KLAS-TV, the CBS Network affiliate in Las Vegas.
History.
KXNT signed on the air in 1986 with the call letters KVEG, airing a talk and middle of the road music format. It was owned by the Roberts Communications Corp.
KVEG had a wide variety of talent including Sam Greenfield, Dominick Brascia, Lou Epton, Irwin Schiff and the syndicated Tom Leykis. In 1997, KVEG changed its call letters to KXNT with the "NT" standing for "News/Talk." The station moved to a more traditional talk radio line up, airing Rush Limbaugh and "Coast to Coast AM" previously heard on rival station 720 KDWN. Other shows included Dr. Laura and Bill Handel.
On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was consummated on the 17th.
Former simulcast.
Between August 16, 2010 and September 4, 2015, programming on KXNT had been simulcast on its sister FM station 100.5 KXNT-FM, to give listeners who prefer FM that option. Programmer Bob Agnew made sure it wouldn’t be successful and it was D.O.A (dead on arrival). That station now airs a rhythmic hot adult contemporary format, under the new call sign KXQQ-FM, while 840 KXNT continues with its talk format on AM.