KGNW (820 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Burien, Washington, and serving the Seattle metropolitan area.

They include David Jeremiah, Chuck Swindoll, Jim Daly, Alistair Begg, Greg Laurie, John MacArthur, J. Vernon McGee and Charles Stanley.

[6] KQIN played country music and competed with 1150 KAYO (now KKNW), 101.5 KETO (now KPLZ) and later KMPS-FM 94.1 (now KSWD).

But that put it in competition with such FM easy listening stations as 94.1 KEUT (now KSWD), 98.9 KEZX (now KPNW-FM), 100.7 KSEA (now KKWF) and 103.7 KBRD (now KHTP).

Salem had plans to acquire KQIN's daytime-only signal on 800 AM and improve it, making it a place to relocate KGNW.

[7] In the mid-1980s, the Federal Communications Commission relaxed rules that restricted lesser-class stations on Class A, clear channel frequencies.

So Salem Media engineers applied to move KQIN to 820 AM, even though WBAP 820 Fort Worth is a Class A station powered at 50,000 watts.