KSGO
talk radio station in St. George, Utah, United States
KSGO (1450 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a conservative talk radio format to the St. George, Utah, United States, area. The station is owned by Canyon Media Corporation.
History
The 1450 kHz frequency was home to KDXU from 1956 until 1985. In September 1985, KDXU switched its radio frequency to 890 kHz and increased power to 10,000 watts.
KDXU broadcast engineer and local cable-TV owner Ray Carpenter filed for a new radio station on 1450 kHz, which was granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); KATJ began operating with an adult contemporary music format in December using the former KDXU transmitter. The new station took its call sign from Carpenter's six grandchildren: Kelly, Amy, Traci, Troy, Jared and Joel.
In November 1986, former Bonneville International executives Joseph A. Kjar, Donald Bybee and Blaine W. Whipple, organizing as Color Country Broadcasting, purchased the station from Carpenter, changing the call sign to KDLX "DeLux Radio" on January 1, 1987. KDLX moved immediately to new studio facilities
Kjar, Whipple, and Bybee sold the station in November 1988 to Las Vegas broadcaster Jack London (Paul G. Maziar) who subsequently filed bankruptcy. London's partner in the purchase was veteran broadcast executive E. Morgan Skinner, Jr., a former Bonneville employee.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “KSGO” as talk radio station in St. George, Utah, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as talk radio station in St. George, Utah, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14711736. Authority coordinates are 37.038, -113.637. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1450, 1956, 1985 and 1986.
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This entry incorporates text from “KSGO” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.