KBBO (1390
AM) is a
radio station
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licensed to
Yakima, Washington
Yakima ( or ) is a city in and the county seat of Yakima County, Washington, and the state's 11th-largest city by population. As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 96,968 and a metropolitan population of 256,728. The uninc ...
, United States; the station serves the Yakima area. It carries a
sports talk
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format. The station is currently owned by Stephens Media Group.
History
With a power of 250 watts, the station signed on the air in 1947 as KYAK at 1400 kHz. To increase power to 1000 watts day and 500 at night, the station reduced its frequency to 1390 kHz. In 1957, adopting a rock n' roll format and under the ownership of Warren Durham and Bill Shela, the station changed its call letters from KYAK to KLOQ.
In 1963, KLOQ was sold and the call letters were changed to KBBO A religious format was adopted.
In 2012, after
New Northwest Broadcasters
New Northwest Broadcasters, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, operated 38 radio stations in seven cities in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Prior to the company's bankruptcy, its stations were located in Alaska ( Anchorage and Fairbanks), M ...
went into receivership, its stations in Washington were sold to James Ingstad of
Fargo, North Dakota.
On August 29, 2013, KBBO and its talk format moved from 980 AM to 1390 AM, swapping frequencies with classic country-formatted
KTCR.
On February 25, 2015, KBBO changed their format to sports, branded as "1390 The Fan".
On September 23, 2015, AllAccess.com reported that Ingstad has asked the
Federal Communications Commission
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to allow the station to go silent due to "transmitter failure."
In April 2018, Ingstad Radio sold 14 of its stations in Yakima and the Tri-Cities to Stephens Media Group.
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Sports radio stations in the United States
BBO (AM)
Radio stations established in 1947
1947 establishments in Washington (state)
Fox Sports Radio stations
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