KKXL (1440 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States, and features a sports format known as "1440 The Fan".
This station carried educational as well as commercial programming, which had since 1929 been overseen by Dalton LeMasurier of Grand Forks.
[1] The entire KFJM commercial operation transferred to the new license, including staff and advertising contracts; no new construction was involved.
[6] LeMasurier sold KILO in 1948 to the Grand Forks Herald newspaper, which surrendered a construction permit it held to build a station at 1260 kHz.
[11] Immediately upon the Red River Valley Broadcasting Company assuming control, the call letters were changed to KKXL.
[14] Cariveau and other managers of the KKXL stations, organized as Excel Broadcasting, bought the pair from Vaughns three years later.