KFXN (AM)

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KFXN (690 AM; "Hmong Radio AM 690") is a radio station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, serving the Twin Cities area.^{[citation needed]} The station is owned by Kongsue Xiong, through licensee Asian American Broadcasting, LLC.^{[citation needed]}

On July 21, 2010, former owner Clear Channel Communications announced it would donate the station through the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC)-Clear Channel Ownership Diversity Initiative. In September 2011, the station switched to an ethnic-based format catering to the local Hmong-American community.^[2]

KFXN is essentially a daytime-only station, broadcasting at 1700 watts, though it does have a five watt signal during nighttime hours with very limited reach. This is to protect CKGM in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The transmitter and single tower antenna is located in New Hope on Winnetka Avenue north of 36th Avenue. This has been the only transmitter location for the station since it signed on the air on April 5, 1962. In August 2009, KTTB (96.3 FM) relocated its transmission facilities from Watertown to the KFXN site. Originally the station had used a 3 tower antenna array to shape the then 500 watt signal to protect the Canadian clear channel station as well as a now defunct KUSD station located in Vermillion South Dakota. In 2020 the center tower of the KFXN array collapsed, severing the transmission lines feeding the other 2 towers. The station operated with a Special Temporary Authorization from the FCC to operate non directional from the east tower at a reduced power of 120 watts.Engineering studies were conducted and the station was able to increase power and go to a non directional single tower pattern while protecting the signal of CKGM, the predominant Canadian Clear Channel. ^[3]