KFNZ (AM)

[2] KFNZ is a Class B regional station, with a power of 5,000 watts, both the daytime and nighttime, using a non-directional antenna on one tower.

Prior to the January 1923 establishment of the Mississippi River as the boundary, call letters beginning with "W" were generally assigned to stations east of an irregular line formed by the western state borders from North Dakota south to Texas, with calls beginning with "K" going only to stations in states west of that line.

It moved to 610 kHz in 1928, splitting time with station WOQ, before becoming the sole occupant of 610 AM in Kansas City.

[9] Taft changed 610 WDAF to a full service middle of the road music format on April 30, 1967.

WDAF carried news from the ABC American Information Radio Network, mainly owing to the company's very good relationship with its television counterpart.

Taft Broadcasting owned it until 1987, when a hostile takeover put it under Great American Communications ownership.

)[11] Despite having as many as three full power FM competitors at various times, WDAF remained the top-rated country station in Kansas City.

David Lawrence, Phil Young, and Ted Cramer were among the longtime personalities on 61 Country, along with newscasters Charles Gray, Frank Haynes, and Caroline Rooney.

[9] In 2003, Entercom announced it would move WDAF to 106.5 on the FM dial, and would flip AM 610 to sports talk to compete against WHB.

[12][13][14][15] Leading up to the premiere, Entercom had swiped Jason Whitlock, Bill Maas and Tim Grunhard from WHB, though all three have since moved on.

The FM side, which adopted the KFNZ-FM callsign, would become the new flagship station for the Kansas City Chiefs (which had been on WDAF-FM) and the Royals with the move.