KFYI

KFYI

Phoenix, Arizona United States
Broadcast area	Phoenix metropolitan area
Frequency	550 kHz
Branding	News/Talk 550 KFYI
Programming
Format	News/talk
Affiliations	Fox News Radio Premiere Networks Radio America
Ownership
Owner	iHeartMedia (iHM Licenses, LLC)
Sister stations	KESZ KGME KMXP KNIX-FM KOY KYOT KZZP
History
First air date	September 6, 1922 (101 years ago) (1922-09-06)
Former call signs	KFCB (1922–1929) KOY (1929–1999) KGME (1999–2000)
Former frequencies	833 kHz (1922–1923) 1280 kHz (1923) 1080 kHz (1923–1924) 1260 kHz (1924–1927) 1230 kHz (1927–1928) 1310 kHz (1928–1929) 1390 kHz (1929–1940)
Call sign meaning	"For your information"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	63918
Class	B
Power	5,000 watts day 1,000 watts night
Transmitter coordinates	33°23′16″N 112°0′24″W / 33.38778°N 112.00667°W / 33.38778; -112.00667
Repeater(s)	95.5 KYOT-HD2 (Phoenix)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live (via iHeartRadio)
Website	kfyi.iheart.com

KFYI (550 AM) – branded News/Talk 550 KFYI – is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to serve Phoenix, Arizona. Owned by iHeartMedia, KFYI serves the Phoenix metropolitan area as the market affiliate for Fox News Radio, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, the Glenn Beck Radio Program and Coast to Coast AM.

Established as KFCB in 1922 by Earl A. Nielsen after a year of experimental broadcasting, this station adopted the KOY call sign in 1929. Sold to interests controlled by the Prairie Farmer/WLS in 1936, KOY was the Phoenix outlet for CBS radio in the 1930s and 1940s as well as an early home for Steve Allen and Jack Williams, the latter a part of the station from 1929 until his election to Arizona governor in 1966.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, KOY featured a popular adult contemporary format headlined by Bill Heywood, but declining ratings resulted in a 1988 flip to satellite-fed adult standards. As a result of mass consolidation, KOY's call letters and standards format were moved in 1999 to 1230 AM, with 550 AM assuming the KGME call sign and sports format. Since 2000, this station has featured the KFYI calls and talk format—which had previously originated on 910 AM—after a second intellectual property swap.

Studios for KFYI are located near 48th and Van Buren streets, near Sky Harbor Airport, and the transmitter is located on South 36th Street near East Vineyard Road in Phoenix. In addition to a standard analog transmission, KFYI is simulcast over the second HD subchannel of KYOT (95.5 FM) and streams online via iHeartRadio.