KOZB (97.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Livingston, Montana, United States. The station's licensee is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses, LLC. The offices and all the studios were atone time located southwest of Bozeman at "Radio Ranch", 5445 Johnson Road but no longer there. Its transmitter site is east of Bozeman, on Bozeman Trail Road.

KBOZ-FM KBOZ-FM (99.9 Hertz, MHz, "99.9 K-Bear") is a radio station licensed to Bozeman, Montana, 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 s ...

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KOBB-FM KOBB-FM (93.7 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 "Radio Ra ...

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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 signed on in December 1977 as KYBS. It changed its call letters to KATH in April 1993; on November 25, 1993, it became KBOZ-FM. On August 1, 1995, the station switched calls to KPKX, and on August 3, 2004 it became KOZB. On June 1, 2018, KOZB and its sister stations went off the air. Effective December 6, 2019, the licenses for KOZB 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. The station came back on the air as active rock 97.5 the Zone.

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