KEJB (1480 AM) is a

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broadcasting 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 ...

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. Licensed to

Eureka, California Eureka (Wiyot: ''Jaroujiji'', Hupa: ''do'-wi-lotl-ding'', Karuk: ''uuth'') is the principal city and county seat of Humboldt County in the Redwood Empire region of California. The city is located on U.S. Route 101 on the shores of Humboldt ...

, United States, it serves the Eureka area. The station is currently owned by Bicoastal Media Licenses II, LLC. The station is the North Coast's oldest continuously operating radio station. It signed on in 1933 as KIEM. It gradually spawned the area's first television station,

KIEM-TV KIEM-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Eureka, California, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Imagicomm Communications alongside low-power CBS affiliate KVIQ-LD (channel 14). Both stations share studios on South Broadway ...

. The radio side changed its calls to KRED in 1961, but remained a sister station to KIEM-TV until the two stations were sold to separate owners in the 1970s. The station's previous KGOE call letters come from a previous format, a full-time simulcast of

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

talk radio station KGO AM 810. KGOE NewsTalkSports1480 logo

On February 1, 2023, KGOE changed their format from progressive talk to oldies, branded as "The Jukebox" under new KEJB call letters.Jukebox Opens in Eureka
Radioinsight - February 2, 2023

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* * EJB Oldies radio stations in the United States Mass media in Humboldt County, California Radio stations established in 1933 1933 establishments in California {{California-radio-station-stub