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KUGN (590 AM, "NewsTalk 590") is a radio station primarily broadcasting talk radio. Licensed to the city of Eugene, Oregon, it serves the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Cumulus Media, and affiliated with ABC News Radio. KUGN partners with local CBS television affiliate KVAL for breaking news and weather coverage. KUGN is the flagship radio station of the Oregon Sports Network, and broadcasts University of Oregon football and basketball games. KUGN also broadcasts local high school football and basketball games. On weekdays, KUGN airs four-and-a-half hours of local news and talk programming, local and national news twice per hour, and nationally syndicated talk shows. ==History== KUGN first took the air on July 4, 1946 as the second radio station in Eugene, after KORE. KUGN was originally affiliated with the ABC radio network, but switched to NBC in December 1952. The station dropped the longtime NBC affiliation for CBS in December 1977. In 1953, KUGN raised its power to 5,000-watts, to become the most powerful radio station in Oregon, outside of the Portland-metro area.〔Register Guard, November 16, 1953〕 In 1979, KUGN began airing some Mutual Broadcasting System programming, including Monday Night Football and Larry King's popular evening talk show. During its first four decades, KUGN was best known for its eclectic, personable announcers. The careers of such veterans as Duke Young, Dick Cross, Dave Miller, Russ Doran, Skip Hathaway, Webb Russell, Wendy Ray and Dale "Uncle Fuzzy" Reed spanned the period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The station had the first traffic reports in the market in 1976 when Ken Strobeck did morning and afternoon drive-time reports in the "KUGN Traffic Rabbit," a Volkswagen Rabbit equipped with a radio telephone and portable transmitter. Tom Lichty ("Major Tom") took over the job in late 1976 when traffic reporting took to the air, serving both as traffic reporter and pilot. The "old" KUGN, which Ray unabashedly called "the best radio station in the world," is best remembered for its popular "Morning Show." Reed, KUGN's resident Renaissance Man, teamed with Ray and news director Fred Webb for a much beloved program that was a "must hear" in the Eugene area throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. "The Morning Show" entertained "The Listener" with such lighthearted semi-regular features such as Ray's "Ball Score Boogie," the "Poet's Nook" starring Webb as the high-buttoned poetry devotee "Charles," Lichty's traffic reports, and "Gridpute," a tongue-in-cheek Friday morning football preview featuring Ray and a clanking, cantankerous "computer." Ray and Webb also teamed up on Eugene's top-rated morning newscasts, twice hourly between 5:30 and 10 a.m. D.J.-anchor "Uncle Fuzzy" knit it all together with his wry commentary and savvy music choices (adult contemporary with a fair amount of jazz), delivered in a voice that was airwave-polished, yet that of Everyman. Ray retired from radio in March 1992. Reed and Webb continued until that November, but management chose not to renew their contracts.〔Register Guard, November 10, 1992〕 The station experimented with a few replacements, before settling on a morning news team of Ralph Steadman and Rick Little. Steadman exited in 1995 to make way for University of Oregon sportscaster Jerry Allen.〔Register Guard, September 2, 1995〕 Since 2010, The KUGN Morning News has been co-hosted by Storm Kennedy and Grant McHill. 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「KUGN」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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