Screeno Screeno Screeno (a portmanteau of "screen bingo") was a form of bingo played in American movie theaters during the Great Depression of the 1930s. To bolster attendance on slow weeknights, the neighborhood movie houses would feature the game in which audience members would have a chance to win cash prizes. The story is that many a theater was saved from bankruptcy by the advent of Screeno (sometimes spelled in capitals: SCREENO). The game was played between the two main movie features. A number dial and a giant spinning needle were projected onto the movie screen. Patrons were provided with toothpicks
KENO from 1930 to 1935, but low power and limited hours made it unprofitable.) For much of its early history, KENO broadcast out of the El Rancho Vegas on Las Vegas Boulevard. Southern Nevada's first radio show was called "Listen Ladies" and was hosted by Laura Belle Kelch. "Listen Ladies" provided home and household advice to women in the 1940s. The station played top 40 from the 1950s to the early 1980s, using the slogan "Music Radio 1460" in the 1960s and 70s. KENO also had and FM station at 92.3, until 1982 when it changed its call sign to KOMP