KNBQ
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| City of license | Centralia, Washington |
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| Broadcast area | Olympia and Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area |
| Branding | Sports Radio KJR 950 AM & 102.9 FM |
| Frequency | 102.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1980 (as KELA) |
| Format | Sports Talk |
| ERP | 70,000 watts |
| HAAT | 668 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 33829 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°58′31″N 123°08′16″W / 46.97528°N 123.13778°W |
| Former callsigns | KELA (1980-1983) KELA-FM (1/1983-2/1983) KMNT (1983-2005) |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications (Citicasters Licenses, L.P.) |
| Sister stations | KBKS, KHHO, KJR, KJR-FM, KKBW, KUBE |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | sportsradiokjr.com |
KNBQ (102.9 FM) is a sports talk formatted radio station serving the Seattle-Tacoma area. The station is licensed to Centralia, Washington.
At 7 AM on November 4, 2011, KNBQ started simulcasting sports talk station KJR (AM), becoming "Sports Radio 950 and 102.9 KJR".[1] The station's calls were not changed because its sister station KJR-FM, located on 95.7 FM, already has them. This is a similar move made by KFRC-FM/San Francisco, WCFS-FM/Chicago, and WSBB-FM/Atlanta after those stations began simulcasting KCBS-AM, WBBM-AM and WSB-AM (respectively) due to their sister stations owning the same calls with the -FM suffix having a different format from the AM counterpart and did not want to transfer them over.
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[edit] History
This station signed on in 1980 as KELA with a country music format. In 1983, the station changed its callsign to KELA-FM, but only held this callsign for less than a month before the calls changed to KMNT. The country music format and KMNT calls were moved to 104.3 FM in 2005. A new country station would be launched after the move; 102.9 would acquire the KNBQ call letters and would be branded as "Q Country 102.9".
In the 1980s, the call letters KNBQ were on 97.3 (now KIRO-FM), which at the time broadcast a top-40 format and served Tacoma and the South Sound. Famous DJs included Ric Hansen mid-days and Beau "Rockin'" Roberts at night.
This station is now located near downtown Seattle in the Belltown neighborhood.
[edit] HD Radio
102.9-HD1 carries the analog format ("Sports Radio KJR 950 AM and 102.9 FM") from the standard 102.9 FM frequency. 102.9-HD2 carries a classic country format branded as "Foggy Mountain." Foggy Mountain is carried through the classic country feed on iheartradio.
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[edit] External links
- Sports Radio 950 and 102.9 KJR
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KNBQ
- Radio-Locator information on KNBQ
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KNBQ
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