KBRO

For the airport in Brownsville, Texas, assigned ICAO code KBRO, see Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport.

KBRO

City of license	Bremerton, Washington
Frequency	1490 kHz
Format	Spanish Sports (ESPN Deportes Radio)
Power	1,000 watts
Class	C
Facility ID	48248
Transmitter coordinates	47°33′52″N 122°39′26″W
Affiliations	ESPN Deportes Radio
Owner	Seattle Streaming Radio, LLC
Sister stations	KNTB-AM, KLDY-AM, K221FJ
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	espndeportesseattle.com

KBRO in Bremerton and KNTB in Lakewood, both Washington, are a pair of simulcasting Spanish-language radio stations serving the Puget Sound region. KBRO broadcasts at 1490 kHz with 1,000 watts fulltime while KNTB broadcasts at 1480 kHz with 1,000 watts day and 111 watts night. Both stations are owned by Seattle Streaming Radio, LLC. They both broadcast the ESPN Deportes Radio network.

History

KBRO, which signed on the air in May 1947 and was the one-time sister station of the current KRWM during its early years as Bremerton's dominant community stations, and KNTB, which signed on the air as KQLA, with an MOR/Talk format in September 1978, became simulcasts in 1998 as affiliates of the Triangle Radio Network, a service that targeted the LGBT community with a mix of music, Talk, and specialty fare. Controversy, a lack of support from advertisters and signal coverage would force the stations to drop the network and, in the process, be sold to its current owners. After short terms, broadcasting Oldies, and then a Hispanic Christian format, it settled into its current programming in 2005. Later, KLDY-AM, in Lacey-Olympia, Washington and K221FJ, an FM translator in Tacoma, Washington were added to the network.

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KBRO
• Radio-Locator Information on KBRO
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KBRO
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KNTB
• Radio-Locator Information on KNTB
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KNTB
• FCC History Cards for KBRO