KDUN AM 1030

A commercial radio station formerly broadcasting on 1030 AM under the brand name Dune Radio, airing an oldies format featuring popular music from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It was owned by Big Shoes Productions, with studios housed in the Oregon Coast School of Art building in Gardiner, Oregon. The station also carried Seattle Seahawks football games. During daytime hours the station operated at 50,000 watts, the maximum power permitted by the FCC for AM stations; at sunset it reduced to 630 watts to prevent interference with other stations on the 1030 kHz frequency. Its coverage area encompassed Winchester Bay, Coos Bay, Florence, Gardiner, Roseburg, Eugene-Springfield, and communities along Interstate 5 and Highway 101 on the Central Oregon Coast. The station's history traces back to a construction permit filed in September 1958 by Oregon Coast Broadcasters for a facility to be licensed to Reedsport, Oregon. The FCC granted the permit in March 1960 for a daytime-only AM station on 1470 kHz with 5,000 watts, initially assigned the call letters KRDP, changed to KRAF in April 1961. KRAF signed on June 2, 1961, with Walter J. Kraus as owner and Gless Connoy as general manager; the call letters represented the Reedsport and Florence coverage area. The station was sold to Wayne A. Moreland on July 1, 1968, who subsequently obtained the call sign change to KDUN and a frequency change to 1030 AM.