KFBD-FM (97.9
FM) is a
radio station
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licensed to
Waynesville, Missouri
Waynesville is a city in and the county seat of Pulaski County, Missouri, United States. Its population was 5,406 at the 2020 census. Located in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks, it was one of the communities served by historic Route 66.
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, United States. The station is currently owned by
Alpha Media
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, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC.
KFBD-FM and its AM sister station,
KJPW
KJPW (1390 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news talk information format. Licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States, the station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC, and features programming ...
, are the dominant news radio providers in the
Pulaski County area, which includes
Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Leonard Wood is a U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of The City of St. Robert. The post was created in December 1940 and named in honor of General Leonard Woo ...
,
Waynesville, and
St. Robert.
The stations compete with the only other station broadcasting from Pulaski County,
KFLW
KFLW is a radio station airing a hot adult contemporary format licensed to St. Robert, Missouri, broadcasting on 98.9 MHz FM. The station serves the areas of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, Rolla, Missouri
Rolla () is a city in, and the coun ...
Radio, owned by the Lebanon Daily Record and working locally from the
St. Robert offices of the Pulaski County Mirror weekly newspaper.
Gary Knehans was honored by the Waynesville City Council on Sept. 19, 2013, for fifty years of service as a reporter with the radio station. Knehans was hired by the original owners of the radio station about half a year after it went on the air, originally with the call letters KJPW, and now serves as operations manager for KJPW/KFBD as well as two other stations.
History
The station first signed on the air on December 9, 1964. It first aired a MOR format before becoming a Top 40 format in 1981. KFBD-FM is one out of the two Rolla dominant affiliates for
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40
''Rick Dees Weekly Top 40'' (sometimes known as ''The Weekly Top 40'') is an internationally syndicated radio program created and hosted by American radio personality Rick Dees. It is currently heard on over 200 radio stations worldwide. It is di ...
in the 1980s, with the other being
KCLU. The Top 40 format continued to last throughout the rest of the 1980s and into the early 1990s. When the early 1990s began rolling along, the station began simulcasting KOZQ-AM which still airs Top 40 at the time. A few years later, it became a news/talk station.
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FBD-FM
Pulaski County, Missouri
Radio stations established in 1975
Alpha Media radio stations
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