KHNC-AM

KHNC 1360 is a conservative talk station licensed to Johnstown, between Greeley and Loveland. The permit was first issued in the late 1980s as KZOI, and the station signed on as KHNC in January 1993, owned by Donald and Sharon Wiedeman and running talk from the start.

In its early years it called itself the “USA Patriot Network” and aired conspiracy-minded and “New World Order” programming. It made national news in 1996 when the Montana Freemen called in during their standoff with the FBI. After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing it rebranded as the “American Freedom Network,” with some shows also carried on shortwave station WWCR. On November 29, 1997, a fire started by a faulty hot plate destroyed the studio building, which also housed a magazine called American Freedom. The transmitter on Wiedeman’s farm was not damaged.

Donald Wiedeman died in 2015. In 2019 Joe Jaquint, host of Patriot Radio News Hour, bought the station for $250,000, and in 2020 moved the license to Excursion Broadcasting Network. It now brands as “1360 KHNC: The Lion.”

Station information

• Frequency: 1360 kHz.
• City of license: Johnstown.
• Signed on: January 1993.
• Format: Conservative talk.
• Call history: KZOI (1986–1989, construction permit), KHNC (1993–present).
• Owner: Excursion Broadcasting Network, LLC (Joe Jaquint).
• FCC facility ID: 17183.

References

• KHNC, Wikipedia.