KFXN-FM

KFXN-FM (100.3 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, broadcasting a sports talk format.

The station started broadcasting in 1965 as WCTS, with a non-commercial Christian format, consisting of mostly Bible teachings, by the Fourth Baptist Church in Minneapolis.

Around the same time, Colfax took advantage of recently relaxed Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules and became the Twin Cities market's first duopoly when they purchased KQQL to partner with the new station.

[2] Once WCTS switched frequencies in January, Colfax took the FM station off the air for a few months, eventually signing back on in late April with a two-week long comedy format as a stunt to create a buzz about the new station, with the permanent country music format debuting at 5 a.m. on May 13 as WBOB-FM ("Bob 100").

WBOB faced stiff competition from the long established K102 and upstart KJJO-FM, which had switched to country only a few months prior.

Despite this, WBOB was consistently the second highest-rated country station in the market behind K102, even finishing ahead of them in a few books.

However, when KJJO left the format in 1995, it allowed K102 to aim their guns directly at Bob, a battle 100.3 soon lost swiftly.

In 1996, both WBOB and KQQL were sold to Chancellor Broadcasting, which also owned KEEY, KFAN, KDWB, KTCZ and KTCJ.

[6][7] Stern's show was a mild success in the market, but consistently finished second or third in the ratings, while only taking away a smaller than expected number of listeners from KQRS and Tom Barnard.

WRQC and Stern left the Twin Cities airwaves at 10:30 a.m. on August 3, 1999, as the station began stunting by simulcasting co-owned KFAN (a harbinger of its future format), followed by simulcasts of cross-country sister stations KKSF in San Francisco, WTJM in New York City, and WUBT in Chicago.

[11] When public broadcaster KBEM-FM, another jazz station, found itself in financial straits in early 2005, Clear Channel donated $25,000 to help keep it operating.

Since their other Twin Cities FM stations (KDWB-FM, KEEY-FM, KTCZ-FM, and KQQL) were already entrenched, management decided KJZI was the most expendable.

On January 2, 2006, KJZI switched to news/talk with new KTLK call letters, becoming the second FM talk station in the area after women-oriented WFMP.

The station obtained the market rights to Rush Limbaugh and later Sean Hannity's radio programs from KSTP.

Clear Channel also owned an AM news/talk station in Los Angeles, California, that used the KTLK call sign.

In the spring of 2008, former KTLK news director, Jeff Monosso, was honored with Congressional recognition for his reporting on the 35W Bridge collapse.

On September 27, 2023, the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx announced that KFXN-FM would become the broadcast radio home for both franchises.

[16] The Power Trip Morning Show is hosted by Cory Cove, Chris Hawkey and Paul "Meatsauce" Lambert.

Frequent guests on the show include Former WCCO-TV sports anchor Mark Rosen, former Minnesota Vikings linebacker Ben Leber, former Minnesota Wild player Mark Parrish, former Minnesota State Representative and wounded military veteran John Kriesel, Twins Geek John Bonnes, Bally Sports North reporter Marney Gellner, Zach Halverson, Max Fuller, and Carly Zucker.

WCCO-TV sports anchor Mark Rosen makes regular appearances on The Progrum Monday thru Thursday.

A sometimes weekly but mainly bi-weekly guest is naturalist, author, wildlife photographer and animal/bird professional Stan Tekiela.

The postgame report is also hosted by Mussman and includes interviews with multiple Vikings players and coaching staff.

Prior to Ben Leber, previous Vikings long snapper Mike Morris was the usual co-host.

"Vikings Overtime" is the same format as Fan Line but hosted by 'Meatsauce' Paul Lambert from The PowerTrip Morning Show.

Bob Kurtz (play-by-play), Tom Reid (analyst) and Kevin Falness (studio host) capture all of the action and suspense.

The show was co-hosted by staff members of Game Informer Magazine, typically Managing Editor Andrew Reiner.

Clear Channel Communications considered it to be a pilot project and may have tried to create similar restaurants across the country if it succeeded.

The restaurant was taken over by Major's Sports Cafe in September 2006, then changed owners again in 2008 to the Roseville location of Grumpy's Bar & Grill.

KFXN, also known as "Score 690", was KFAN's sister station and aired a complementary sports talk format from 1998 until September 2011.

KFXN-FM's HD3 sub channel carried EMF's K-Love contemporary Christian format, rebroadcasting on K260BA 99.9 FM.

Logo used while as KTLK-FM