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KOVO (960 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Provo, Utah, USA, the station serves the Provo/Salt Lake City area. The station is currently owned by Dell Loy Hansen, through licensee Broadway Media LS, LLC.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=KOVO Facility Record )〕 It is an affiliate for ESPN Radio. ==History== The station went on the air as KOVO in 1939. In April 1948 it increased its power from 250 W to 1 KW. Radio pioneer Arch L. Madsen, who would later achieve worldwide stature as Bonneville International Corporation's visionary leader, was KOVO's first station manager. Madsen, who previously built KSUB in Cedar City, Utah, also helped form the Inter-mountain Network which joined KOVO with KALL, KLO, and KOAL. In 1989 Steven Grow and his brother David purchased the old KOVO radio station with hopes of real estate development. They were anxious to develop the property for the next 6-7 years and to discontinue the use of the property by a radio station. Anticipating the sale of the property, they began to arrange with the management of KOVO to remove its towers. When the property did not sell, the radio station continued to lease the property. When flooding occurred in 1983 and a dike was built, the city was careful to include all of the property in the area protected by the dike, which seemed to indicate the intent to use the property for something other than farming and grazing. In subsequent years, housing was built to the north of the station, but the property never sold. On 1986-05-12 the station changed its call sign to KFMY which was maintained itself as "Family Radio" for the next six years. In 1992 KZOL a Top 40 FM station still owned by the Grow Brothers as well as the 960 AM station, were sold to James Facer a former KJQ account executive, and promoter Jim McNeil. The station briefly simulcasted KXRK (X-96) then at 96.1 FM, then briefly "S.U.N. Student Underground Network", a format aimed at Utah Valley's college students. Facer and McNeil sold both stations to Simmons Media in the mid-1990s for approximately $9 Million. While with Simmons media KOVO would simulcast KZNS from Salt Lake City, outside of Cougar Sports 960, BYU Baseball, and Utah Valley men's basketball. KOVO and KBLQ acquired the rights for BYU Cougars baseball in 2009 and air the conference BYU Baseball games, as well as select other games. On October 24, 2014, the sale of KOVO by Simmons Media to Dell Loy Hansen's Broadway Media LS, LLC was consummated at a price of $200,000. At that time BYU baseball games would cease on KBLQ and moved solely to KOVO. The station also moved their affiliation from NBC Sports Radio to ESPN Radio. On May 21, 2015 KOVO expanded their sports content by acquiring BYU Cougars women's soccer games produced by IMG.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ESPN 960 to Carry BYU Women’s Soccer Matches: The Voice of the Cougars, Greg Wrubell, to call the matches on ESPN 960 )〕 KOVO's headquarters are located at 50 West Broadway Suite #200 in Salt Lake City, UT. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KOVO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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