[3] On weekdays, KUGN carries nationally syndicated radio shows, beginning with America in The Morning followed by Armstrong & Getty based at KSTE in Sacramento.

Syndicated weekend programming includes computer expert Kim Komando and Bill Handel on law.

KUGN partners with local CBS television affiliate KVAL Channel 13 for breaking news and weather coverage.

It broadcasts University of Oregon Ducks football and basketball games, which are simulcast on co-owned sports radio station KUJZ 95.3 FM.

After some years, his children - Carl Fisher, Jane Whitbread, and Nancy Harrison - assumed daily operations of the station.

Then in mid-1989, long-time employees Jim Torrey (also a future mayor of Eugene) and Chuck Chackel purchased KUGN for $4.2 million.

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 Morning Show" entertained listeners with such lighthearted features such as Wendy Ray's "Ball Score Boogie," the "Poet's Nook" starring Fred 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."

In 1959, KUGN became the first flagship station of the newly created University of Oregon sports radio network, with play-by-play announcer John Tasnady starting a three-season run as the football "Voice of the Ducks."

Other KUGN "voices" of University of Oregon sports were Bud Sobel (1973–74), Ralph Petti (football, 1975), Mike Stone (1975–80), Swain (1980–82), Bill Johnson of Portland network affiliate KXL (1982–84) and Hal Ramey (1984–87).

KUGN lost the broadcast rights to Duck sports in 1987, when the University of Oregon athletic department set up its own in-house radio network.

The university put the network's flagship status up for bidding, and local rival KPNW won out over KUGN.

Play-by-play announcer Jerry Allen, who began calling Ducks games in 1987, moved from KPNW to KUGN at that time.