KBOZ (AM)

KBOZ (1090 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Bozeman, Montana, United States. The station serves the greater Bozeman area. The station's licensee is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC.

KBOZ
Frequency1090 kHz
Branding1090 KBOZ
Programming
FormatClassic country/Ag News
Ownership
Owner
  • Cameron Maxwell
  • (Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC)
KBOZ-FM, KOBB, KOBB-FM, KOZB
History
First air date
December 19, 1975[1]
Call sign meaning
BOZeman
Technical information
Facility ID16775
ClassB
Power5,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates
45°36′58″N 111°5′16″W
Links
Website1090kboz.com

The offices and all the studios are located southwest of Bozeman at "Radio Ranch", 5445 Johnson Road. KBOZ shares a transmitter site with KBOZ-FM 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.

On June 1, 2018, KBOZ and its sister stations went off the air.[2]

Effective December 6, 2019, KBOZ and its sister stations' licenses were involuntary assigned from Reier Broadcasting Company, Inc. to Richard J. Samson, as Receiver. The licenses for these stations were sold to Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC for $300,000 in a deal completed on January 31, 2022. [3]

References
  1. Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2009 (PDF). 2009. p. D-335. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  2. Five Station Cluster Shuts Down in Bozeman Radioinsight - June 3, 2018
  3. "Deal Digest – February 3, 2021". Retrieved 2022-08-07.


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