KOBB-FM

KOBB-FM
City Bozeman, Montana
Frequency 93.7 MHz
First air date November 1, 1980 (1980-11-01)[1]
Format Silent
ERP 51,000 watts
HAAT -39 meters
Class C1
Facility ID 16776
Transmitter coordinates 45°41′35″N 110°58′50″W / 45.69306°N 110.98056°W / 45.69306; -110.98056Coordinates: 45°41′35″N 110°58′50″W / 45.69306°N 110.98056°W / 45.69306; -110.98056
Former callsigns KBZN (1978–1983)[2]
KBOZ-FM (1983–1993)
KATH (1993–1997)[3]
Owner Reier Broadcasting Company
Sister stations KBOZ, KBOZ-FM, KOBB, KOZB

KOBB-FM (93.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Bozeman, Montana, United States. The station is owned by Reier Broadcasting Company, which operates as the KBOZ Radio Stations Group.[4]

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

KOBB-FM airs an oldies music format.[5] The station derives most of its programming from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel.[6] As of July 2009, KOBB-FM was the only station in Montana to carry The True Oldies Channel.

The station was assigned the KOBB-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 11, 1997.[3] Before oldies the station carried a country music format as "The Kat".

On June 3, 2018, KOBB-FM and its sister stations went off the air.[7][8]

Translators

KOBB-FM programming is also carried on broadcast translator stations to extend or improve the coverage area of the primary station.

Call signFrequency
(MHz)		City of licenseERP
W		ClassFCC info
K240CO95.9Livingston, Montana27DFCC
K288ES105.5Big Sky, Montana35DFCC
K280CS103.9Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming44DFCC

References

  1. ↑ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2009 (PDF). 2009. p. D-335. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ "KBZN (KOBB-FM) history cards" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  4. ↑ "Citadel and Reier Broadcasting Company". Montanavision.
  5. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01.
  6. ↑ "Radio Stations". Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel. Archived from the original on July 28, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
  7. ↑ Five Station Cluster Shuts Down in Bozeman Radioinsight - June 3, 3018
  8. ↑ Schontzler, Gail. "KBOZ radio stations go dark, future uncertain". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
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