KBYG (1400 AM, "Big 1400 AM") is a

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broadcasting a

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music format. Licensed to Big Spring, in the

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, the station serves the Big Spring- Snyder area. The station is currently owned by Weeks Broadcasting, Inc. and features programming from

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History

KBYG began operation in 1948 as a 100–watt full-time operation. It increased to 1,000 watts days in 1964 and 1,000 watts nights in 1984. It was owned by the Grady Maples/RB McAlister interests in the late fifties, the John Hicks (father of

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and

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) interests in the sixties and seventies, Dick Fields interests in the eighties, and Drew Ballard in the nineties and 2000s. KBYG is repeated on FM translator station K292FE, Big Spring, Texas. Dick Fields was the owner of KBYG in the 1980s. Dick Oppenheimer was the owner of crosstown KHEM/KWKI during the same period.

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External links

* * BYG Classic hits radio stations in the United States {{Texas-radio-station-stub