KOBB-FM

KOBB-FM (93.7 MHz) is a radio station licensed to serve Bozeman, Montana, United States. The station's license is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC.

KOBB-FM
Frequency93.7 MHz
Branding93.7 The River
Programming
FormatClassic hits
Ownership
Owner
  • Cameron Maxwell
  • (Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC)
KBOZ, KBOZ-FM, KOBB, KOZB
History
First air date
November 1, 1980 (1980-11-01)[1]
Former call signs
KBZN (1978–1983)[2]
KBOZ-FM (1983–1993)
KATH (1993–1997)[3]
Technical information
Facility ID16776
ClassC1
ERP51,000 watts
HAAT-39 meters
Transmitter coordinates
45°41′35″N 110°58′50″W
Links
Website937theriverfm.com

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.

In 1984, it aired a Top-40 music format, competing against KCDQ. A few decades later when it became KOBB-FM, it began airing an oldies music format.[4] The station derives most of its programming from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel.[5] 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 sign 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.[6][7]

Effective December 6, 2019, the licenses for KOBB-FM and its sister stations were involuntary assigned from Reier Broadcasting Company 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.[8]

As of 2021, KOBB-FM is back on the air with a Hot AC format branded as "93.7 The Cob."

Translators

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

Call signFrequencyCity of licenseERP (W)ClassFCC info
K280CS 103.9 FMMammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming44DFMQ

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. "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  4. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01.
  5. "Radio Stations". Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel. Archived from the original on July 28, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
  6. Five Station Cluster Shuts Down in Bozeman Radioinsight - June 3, 3018
  7. Schontzler, Gail. "KBOZ radio stations go dark, future uncertain". Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
  8. "Deal Digest – February 3, 2021". Retrieved 2022-08-07.


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