KXCB
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Broadcast area | Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area |
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| [[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | 1420 kHz |
| Branding | Bluffs Country 106.5 |
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| Format | Country |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio |
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Call sign meaning | Council Bluffs |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Class | B |
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| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
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KXCB (1420 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, United States, serving the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It features a country music format, owned by Steven Seline, through licensee Hickory Radio, LLC.[2] The studios and offices are on Burt Street near North 120th Street and Dodge Road in West Omaha.
The transmitter is in Council Bluffs, off South 36th Street, near the Missouri River. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K293CX at 106.5 MHz in Council Bluffs.
History
Early years
The station signed on the air on March 20, 1957.[3] The original call sign was KOOO and it was a daytimer, broadcasting at 500 watts but required to go off the air at night. It aired a country music format. It later began simulcasting with 104.5 FM, which went on the air on May 12, 1972, as KOOO-FM.
By 1978, KOOO had changed to a news/talk format, with 104.5 FM moving to easy listening music. In March 1979, 1420 AM flipped to an easy listening format and was renamed KESY, again simulcasting with 104.5, which had the KESY-FM call letters.[4]
In 1980, the AM reverted to the old KOOO call sign and adopted an adult standards format, using the ”Music of Your Life” service. In 1984, the call sign changed to KROM.[5] In late 1985, the AM once again became KESY with an easy listening format, and resumed simulcasting with the FM. By late 1989, KESY AM and FM shifted to soft adult contemporary.[6][7]
For a brief two-week period in June 1990, the calls became KLAO before reverting to KESY. On January 1, 1995, the station changed its call sign to KBBX, and flipped to an urban oldies format.[8]
Journal Communications and Salem Media
Journal Communications purchased KBBX in January 1998, and changed the programming to Regional Mexican music in April of that year.[9][10] On May 10, 2002, as part of a major format shuffle, the format moved to then-sister station 97.7 FM.[11] After two weeks of simulcasting, the AM station became KHLP with an advice talk format.
In April 2005, it was announced that Journal had sold KHLP to Salem Communications, and in December of that year, the station switched to conservative talk as "Newstalk 1420 KOTK".[12] On September 4, 2008, KOTK flipped to a Spanish Christian radio format with the slogan "La Luz" (The Light).[13]
On April 4, 2016, KOTK switched back to conservative talk, branded as "94.5/1420 The Answer".[14]
Hickory Radio
In July 2018, Hickory Radio purchased the station from Salem Media Group.[15]
On March 31, 2019, KOTK flipped to a simulcast of co-owned KOBM (1490 AM), airing an oldies format branded as "Boomer Radio". The following day, KOTK changed call letters to KOBM, with 1490 AM adopting the KIBM call letters.[16][17]
On December 20, 2022, the station changed its call sign to KXCB. On February 1, 2023, KXCB dropped the KIBM simulcast and became a country music station aimed at Council Bluffs, Iowa, branded as "Bluffs Country 106.5".[18]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for KXCB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ FCC.gov/KXCB
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1959 page B-185, Broadcasting & Cable
- ^ "Letters Change," The Omaha World-Herald, February 22, 1979.
- ^ Steve Millburg, "Two Radio Stations to Change Formats," The Omaha World-Herald, August 28, 1984.
- ^ "Radio Highlights," The Omaha World-Herald, November 17, 1985.
- ^ Jeff Bahr, "Don't Tune to KESY for Elevator Music," The Omaha World-Herald, October 14, 1989.
- ^ Jim Minge, "Format change," The Omaha World-Herald, January 5, 1995.
- ^ Jim Minge, "Omaha Stations Change Formats," The Omaha World-Herald, April 1, 1998.
- ^ Jim Minge, "Old Music Still Around," The Omaha World-Herald, April 4, 1998.
- ^ Kristi Wright, "Spanish station increases reach by going to FM," The Omaha World-Herald, May 4, 2002.
- ^ "Happenings," The Omaha World-Herald, December 19, 2005.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KXCB Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ Omaha Gets Its Answer
- ^ http://www.talkers.com July 26, 2018
- ^ Upper Midwest Broadcasting
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Legal ID for the "Boomer Radio" network". Archived from the original on March 31, 2019. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- ^ BLUFFS COUNTRY DEBUTS IN OMAHA/COUNCIL BLUFFS Radioinsight - February 1, 2023
External links
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- KXCB in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
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- K293CX at FCCdata.org
- FCC History Cards for KOBM
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