KJPW

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KJPW
Frequency 1390 kHz
Programming
Format News talk information
Affiliations Fox News Radio
Ownership
Owner
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 53877
Class D
Power
  • 5,000 watts day
  • 111 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
37°49′9.1″N92°9′6.6″W / 37.819194°N 92.151833°W / 37.819194; -92.151833
Links
Public license information
Website Official website

KJPW (1390 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news talk information format. [2] Licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States, the station is owned by Connoisseur Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC, and features programming from Fox News Radio. [3]

Contents

KJPW and its sister station, KFBD-FM, 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. The top-rated show on the station is currently The Rush Limbaugh Show , from 11am to 2pm central.[ citation needed ]

History

Pulaski County Broadcasters, Inc. assigned the license for the station to Ozark Broadcasting, Inc. on September 29, 2003. Also assigned was the license for sister station KJPW-FM (now KOZQ-FM), in a transaction valued at $735,000. [4] Ozark assigned the licenses for both stations, as well as KBNN, KFBD-FM, KJEL, and KIIK, to GoodRadio.TV, LLC on May 9, 2007. [5] On September 10, 2007, the licenses for all six stations were further assigned to Waynesville/Lebanon License Co, LLC, on a pro forma basis. [6]

Gary Knehans was honored by the Waynesville City Council on September 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, and now serves as operations manager for KJPW/KFBD as well as two other stations.[ citation needed ]

In December 2013, GoodRadio.TV and its subsidiaries merged into Digity, LLC. Effective February 25, 2016, Digity and its 124 radio stations were acquired by Alpha Media for $264 million. [7] Alpha Media merged with Connoisseur Media on September 4, 2025. [8]

References

  1. "Facility Technical Data for KJPW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Summer 2009. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
  3. "KJPW Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
  4. "Application Search Details". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
  5. "Application Search Details". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 31, 2009.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. "Application Search Details". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
  7. "Alpha Media Buys Digity". Insideradio.com. Retrieved February 9, 2022.
  8. Venta, Lance (September 4, 2025). "Introducing The New Connoisseur Media". RadioInsight. Retrieved September 8, 2025.