KBOZ-FM (99.9 MHz, "99.9 K-Bear") is a radio station licensed to

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, United States. The station serves the Bozeman area. The station's licensee is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses, LLC. The offices and all the studios are located southwest of Bozeman at "Radio Ranch", 5445 Johnson Road. KBOZ-FM shares a transmitter site with KBOZ and

KOBB-FM KOBB-FM (93.7 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station licensed to serve Bozeman, Montana, United States. The station's licensee is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses, LLC. The offices and all the studios are located southwest of Bozeman at "Rad ...

, east of the studios on Johnson Road and Fowler Lane. KBOZ-FM,

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, and

all have

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s to move to a new shared transmitter site on top of Green Mountain, along I-90 east of Bozeman.

History

The station was assigned the call letters KZLO on December 17, 1992; an "-FM" suffix was added on March 22, 1993. KZLO-FM signed on in April 1993 as a country music station branded as "The Fox". On May 21, 2004, the station became the current KBOZ-FM. On June 1, 2018, KBOZ-FM and its sister stations went off the air. Effective December 6, 2019, the licenses for KBOZ-FM and its sister stations were involuntary assigned from

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, Inc. to Richard J. Samson, as Receiver. The licenses for these stations were sold to Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses, LLC in a deal completed in January 2022.

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