KFBD-FM

KFBD-FM

Waynesville, Missouri United States
Broadcast area	Waynesville, Missouri Rolla, Missouri
Frequency	97.9 MHz
Branding	97.9 the Source
Programming
Format	Adult contemporary
Ownership
Owner	Connoisseur Media (Alpha Media Licensee LLC)
Sister stations	KJPW KBNN KOZQ-FM KJEL KIIK
History
First air date	December 9, 1964 (1964-12-09)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	4259
Class	C3
ERP	10,000 watts
HAAT	157 meters (515 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	37°56′50.1″N92°21′18.6″W / 37.947250°N 92.355167°W / 37.947250; -92.355167
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen live
Website	www.myozarksonline.com/stations/kfbd-97-9/

KFBD-FM (97.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by Connoisseur Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. ^[2]

KFBD-FM and its AM sister station, KJPW, are the dominant news radio providers in the Pulaski County area, which includes Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, and St. Robert.

The stations compete with the only other station broadcasting from Pulaski County, KFLW Radio, owned by the Lebanon Daily Record and working locally from the St. Robert offices of the Pulaski County Mirror weekly newspaper.

Gary Knehans was honored by the Waynesville City Council on Sept. 19, 2013, for fifty years of service as a reporter with the radio station. Knehans was hired by the original owners of the radio station about half a year after it went on the air, originally with the call letters KJPW, and now serves as operations manager for KJPW/KFBD as well as two other stations.

History

The station first signed on the air on December 9, 1964. It first aired a MOR format before becoming a Top 40 format in 1981. KFBD-FM is one out of the two Rolla dominant affiliates for Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 in the 1980s, with the other being KCLU. The Top 40 format continued to last throughout the rest of the 1980s and into the early 1990s. When the early 1990s began rolling along, the station began simulcasting KOZQ which still airs Top 40 at the time. A few years later, it became a news/talk station.

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for KFBD-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. "KFBD-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved October 18, 2009.

External links

• Facility details for Facility ID 4259 (KFBD) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KFBD in Nielsen Audio's FM station database