KBOZ-FM

KBOZ-FM
City Bozeman, Montana
Frequency 99.9 MHz
First air date April 1993 (1993-04) (as KZLO-FM)[1]
Format Silent
ERP 19,000 watts
HAAT −56 meters (−184 ft)
Class C1
Facility ID 55676
Transmitter coordinates 45°41′34″N 110°58′57″W / 45.69278°N 110.98250°W / 45.69278; -110.98250Coordinates: 45°41′34″N 110°58′57″W / 45.69278°N 110.98250°W / 45.69278; -110.98250
Former callsigns KZLO (1992–1993)
KZLO-FM (1993–2004)
Owner Reier Broadcasting Company, Inc.
Sister stations KBOZ, KOBB, KOBB-FM, KOZB

KBOZ-FM (99.9 FM, "9 Country") is a radio station licensed to Bozeman, Montana, United States. The station serves the Bozeman area.[2] The station is owned by Reier Broadcasting Company, Inc., which operates as the KBOZ Radio Stations Group.[3]

The offices and all the studios are located southwest of Bozeman at "Radio Ranch", 5445 Johnson Road. KBOZ-FM shares a transmitter site with KBOZ and KOBB-FM, east of the studios on Johnson Road and Fowler Lane. KBOZ-FM, KOZB, and KOBB-FM all have construction permits to move to a new shared transmitter site on top of Green Mountain, along I-90 east of Bozeman.

History

The station was assigned the call letters KZLO on December 17, 1992; an "-FM" suffix was added on March 22, 1993.[4] KZLO-FM signed on in April 1993 as a country music station branded as "The Fox".[1] On May 21, 2004, the station became the current KBOZ-FM.[4]

On June 1, 2018, KBOZ-FM and its sister stations went off the air.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 Ellig, Tracy (August 3, 1996). "Reier rules the airwaves". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Citadel and Reier Broadcasting Company". Montanavision.
  3. ↑ "KBOZ-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  4. 1 2 "KBOZ-FM Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  5. ↑ Five Station Cluster Shuts Down in Bozeman Radioinsight - June 3, 2018
  6. ↑ Schontzler, Gail. "KBOZ radio stations go dark, future uncertain". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
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