KCOB (1280
AM) is a commercial
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...
that serves the community of
Newton, Iowa. The station primarily broadcasts an
oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...
format, but also provides local and national news, weather and sports. KCOB is owned by
Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC.
The station also broadcasts the St. Louis Cardinal baseball games, as well as the Newton High School football and basketball games.
External links
KCOB website
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Alpha Media radio stations
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