KXCB

KXCB (1420 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, the station serves the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It is owned and operated by Steven Seline, through licensee Hickory Radio, LLC.[1] The studios and offices are on Burt Street near North 120th Street and Dodge Road in West Omaha.

KXCB
Broadcast areaOmaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area
Frequency1420 kHz
BrandingBluffs Country 106.5
Programming
FormatCountry
AffiliationsFox News Radio
Ownership
Owner
  • Steven W. Seline
  • (Hickory Radio, LLC)
KCRO, KIBM, KOBM-FM
History
First air date
March 20, 1957 (1957-03-20) (as KOOO)
Former call signs
  • KOOO (1957–1979)
  • KESY (1979–1980)
  • KOOO (1980–1984)
  • KROM (1984–1986)
  • KESY (1986–1990)
  • KLAO (1990)
  • KESY (1990–1995)
  • KBBX (1995–2002)
  • KHLP (2002–2005)
  • KOTK (2005–2019)
  • KOBM (2019–2022)
Call sign meaning
Council Bluffs
Technical information
Facility ID50307
ClassB
Power
  • 1,000 watts day
  • 330 watts night
Transmitter coordinates
41°11′59.00″N 95°54′34.00″W
Translator(s)106.5 K293CX (Council Bluffs)
Links
WebcastListen Live
Websitebluffscountry.com

By day, KXCB is powered at 1,000 watts. But at night, to protect other stations on 1420 AM from interference, it reduces power to 330 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times with a two-tower array. The transmitter is in Council Bluffs, off South 36th Street, near the Missouri River.[2] Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K293CX at 106.5 MHz in Council Bluffs.[3]

History

Early years

The station signed on the air on March 20, 1957 (March 20, 1957).[4] The original call sign was KOOO and it was a daytimer, broadcasting at 500 watts but required to go off the air at night. It aired a country music format. It later began simulcasting with 104.5 FM, which went on the air on May 12, 1972, as KOOO-FM.

By 1978, KOOO had changed to a news/talk format, with 104.5 FM moving to easy listening music. In March 1979, 1420 AM flipped to an easy listening format and was renamed KESY, again simulcasting with 104.5, which had the KESY-FM call letters.

In 1980, the AM reverted to the old KOOO call sign and adopted an adult standards format, using the ”Music of Your Life” service. In 1984, the call sign changed to KROM. In 1986, the AM once again became KESY with an easy listening format, although not simulcasting 104.5.

For a brief two-week period in June 1990, the calls became KLAO before reverting to KESY, though the AM switched to a soft adult contemporary format as well. In January 1995, the station changed its call sign to KBBX, and flipped to an urban oldies format.

Journal Communications and Salem Media

Journal Communications purchased KBBX in January 1998, and changed the programming to Regional Mexican music on April 1 of that year. On May 10, 2002, as part of a major format shuffle, the format moved to then-sister station 97.7 FM. After two weeks of simulcasting, the AM station became KHLP with an advice talk format.

In April 2005, it was announced that Journal had sold KHLP to Salem Communications, and in December of that year, the station switched to conservative talk as "Newstalk 1420 KOTK". On September 4, 2008, KOTK flipped to a Spanish Christian radio format with the slogan "La Luz" (The Light).[5]

On April 4, 2016, KOTK switched back to conservative talk, branded as "94.5/1420 The Answer".[6]

Hickory Radio

In July 2018, Hickory Radio purchased the station from Salem Media Group.[7]

On March 31, 2019, KOTK flipped to a simulcast of co-owned KOBM (1490 AM), airing an oldies format branded as "Boomer Radio". The following day, KOTK changed call letters to KOBM, with 1490 AM adopting the KIBM call letters.[8][9]

On December 20, 2022, the station changed its call sign to KXCB. On February 1, 2023, KXCB dropped the KIBM simulcast and became a country music station aimed at Council Bluffs, Iowa, branded as "Bluffs Country 106.5".[10]

References
  1. FCC.gov/KXCB
  2. Radio-Locator.com/KXCB
  3. Radio-Locator.com/K293CX
  4. Broadcasting Yearbook 1959 page B-185, Broadcasting & Cable
  5. "KXCB Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  6. Omaha Gets Its Answer
  7. http://www.talkers.com July 26, 2018
  8. Upper Midwest Broadcasting
  9. Legal ID for the "Boomer Radio" network
  10. BLUFFS COUNTRY DEBUTS IN OMAHA/COUNCIL BLUFFS Radioinsight - February 1, 2023
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