KXLB (100.7 FM, "XL Country 100.7") is a

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licensed to serve

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. The station is owned by

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and the

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is held by Townsquare License, LLC. All Townsquare Media Bozeman studios are located at 125 West Mendenhall Street, downtown Bozeman. KXLB,

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KZMY KZMY (103.5 FM, "My 103.5") is a radio station licensed to serve Bozeman, Montana. The station is owned by Townsquare Media, licensed to Townsquare License, LLC. It airs a hot adult contemporary music format. All Townsquare Media Bozeman studio ...

, and KISN all share a transmitter site on Green Mountain, east of Bozeman.

Programming

KXLB airs a

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format to the greater

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, area.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on May 8,

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. In January 1999, permit holder Jann Holter Bernsten applied to transfer the construction permit to Marathon Media of Montana, LP. The transfer was approved by the FCC on May 27, 1999, and the transaction was consummated on August 2, 1999. The new station was assigned

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KYLO by the FCC on December 28, 1999. This call sign was changed to KXLB on January 26, 2000. KXLB received its license to cover from the FCC on January 4, 2001. In late-December 2000, Marathon Media Group, LLC, announced an agreement to sell KXLB to

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subsidiary Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc., as part of a multi-station transaction. The deal was approved by the FCC on February 21, 2001, and the transaction was consummated on the same day. In October 2007, Clear Channel Communications applied to the FCC to sell this station along with 56

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s in 13 markets across the Pacific Northwest-Rocky Mountain region to

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-based

GapWest Broadcasting Gap Broadcasting Group was a group of companies that owned around 116 broadcast stations (including 1 low-power television station and 5 low-power stations) in 23 radio markets in northwestern and central southern United States in the late 2000s. ...

. The deal, valued at a reported $74 million, included six Bozeman stations, seven in

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and five in

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. Other stations in the deal are located in

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, and in

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and

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, plus

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and

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, and

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. The deal was approved by the FCC on December 5, 2007, and the transaction was consummated on February 13, 2008. GapWest was folded into

on August 13, 2010.

Translators

KXLB programming is also carried on a

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station to extend or improve the coverage area of the station.

References

External links

KXLB official website
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