KJPW (1390 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. 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. History ...

, United States, the station is currently owned by

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, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC, and features programming from

Fox News Radio Fox News Radio is an American radio network owned by Fox News. It is syndicated to over 500 AM and FM radio stations across the United States. It also supplies programming for three channels on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. History In 2003, ...

. KJPW and its sister station,

KFBD-FM KFBD-FM (97.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. KFBD-FM and its AM sister station, KJPW, are the dominant news radi ...

, 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. The top-rated show on the station is currently ''

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'', from 11am to 2pm central.

History

Pulaski County Broadcasters, Inc. assigned the

license A license (or licence) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit). A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...

for the station to Ozark Broadcasting, Inc. on September 29, 2003. Also assigned was the license for sister station KJPW-FM (now KOZQ-FM), in a transaction valued at $735,000. Ozark assigned the licenses for both stations, as well as

KBNN KBNN (750 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Established in 1973, the station is licensed to Lebanon, Missouri, United States, and serves the Springfield, Missouri, area. The station is owned by Alpha Media and i ...

KJEL KJEL (103.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Lebanon, Missouri, United States that broadcasts a country music format. Established in 1973, the station is owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. KJEL is a full service ...

, and KIIK, to

GoodRadio.TV Good Radio Networks LLC, doing business as GoodRadio.TV, was a West Palm Beach, Florida based radio ownership group headed by former Pax president Dean Goodman. Partners in this venture include former NAB Chairman Eddie Fritz, and former found ...

, LLC on May 9, 2007. On September 10, 2007, the licenses for all six stations were further assigned to the current owner, Waynesville/Lebanon License Co, LLC, on a pro forma basis. 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, and now serves as operations manager for KJPW/KFBD as well as two other stations. In December 2013, GoodRadio.TV and its subsidiaries merged into Digity, LLC. Effective February 25, 2016, Digity and its 124 radio stations were acquired by

for $264 million.

Line-up

Weekdays: * 5a-8a ''Good Day Show'' with Doug Stephens * 8a-11a Brian Kilmead * 11a-2p Markley, Van Camp And Robbins * 2p-5p Tom Sullivan * 5p-8p Mark Levine * 8p Business Talk Radio

References

External links

* JPW News and talk radio stations in the United States Pulaski County, Missouri Alpha Media radio stations {{Missouri-radio-station-stub