KSMB (94.5

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, "94.5 KSMB") is a CHR FM

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owned by

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. Its studios are located on Galbert Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located south of

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. KSMB began broadcasting in 1964 as Lafayette's first FM station.Broadcasting/Cablecasting Yearbook 1984 Its call letters stand for Southland Music Broadcasting, the station's original owner company. Through the 1960s it featured a strictly Cajun, Swamp Pop and Zydeco

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format. By the 1970s, the station had established an AOR format as ''"K94 The Stereo Rock!"'' In late 1984, the format was gradually shifted from AOR to the current legendary

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/ CHR format, under a new moniker as ''"HitRadio 94½ The All New KSMB"'' occurring by October. This branding lasted until 1994, when the current brand name was adopted and shortened moderately as ''"94.5 KSMB"''.

Citadel Broadcasting Citadel Broadcasting Corporation was a Las Vegas, Nevada-based broadcast holding company. Citadel owned 243 radio stations across the United States and was the third-largest radio station owner in the country. Only iHeartMedia and Cumulus Media ...

purchased KSMB from Powell Broadcasting in 1999. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011. KSMB is recognized as one of Louisiana's oldest operating radio stations.

References

External links

KSMB website
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