KGWD

KGWD
City Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Broadcast area Metro Sioux Falls
Branding Real Presence Radio
Frequency 94.5 MHz
First air date July 1985 (as KCFS)[1]
Format Catholic talk radio[2]
Power 25,000 watts
HAAT 87.9 meters (288 ft)
Class C3
Facility ID 60487
Transmitter coordinates 43°31′56.0″N 96°44′20.0″W / 43.532222°N 96.738889°W / 43.532222; -96.738889
Former callsigns KCFS (1985-2015)
KBAD-FM (2015-2018)[3]
Owner Real Presence Radio
Website yourcatholicradiostation.com

KGWD is a broadcast radio station licensed to and serving Sioux Falls, South Dakota.[2] KGWD is owned and operated by Real Presence Radio.[4]

History

The station was previously owned by the University of Sioux Falls, with the call letters KCFS, and was purchased in September 2015 for the sum of 1.5 million dollars. The call sign was changed on September 1, 2015 to KBAD-FM.

The station permanently ceased operation on September 23, 2017 and was advertised for sale, citing result of on-going litigation between then-owner Chuck Brennan and his other Dollar Loan Center businesses against the state of South Dakota, related to recent lending laws ruling according to press release published on http://www.kbad945.com/.

Upon closure of KBAD-FM and its related entities, four of the main on-air personalities (Crazy Frank, The Metal Cowboy-Ron Keel(http://www.ronkeel.com/), Crash, and The Rev) just didn't have enough of the intense vibe and following that was generated by the KBAD audience and formed https://kback.rocks/ as an online streaming radio station (based "somewhere in an underground bunker in Sioux Falls, SD") that went live on the Live365 streaming radio service on October 21, 2017. They quickly went to the number one stream on Live365 in just a few hours, on their first debut with three of the four co-hosts on October 23, 2017, which has never been seen before on that service.

Effective June 21, 2018, Brennan's Badlands Airtime, LLC sold KBAD-FM to Real Presence Radio for $945,000. The new owners changed the station's call sign to KGWD on July 3, 2018.

Previous logos

References

  1. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 2010 (PDF). ProQuest, LLC/Reed Publishing (Nederland), B.V. 2010. p. D-494. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Arbitron Station Information Profiles". Nielsen Audio/Nielsen Holdings. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  4. ↑ "KGWD Facility Record". Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
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