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Radio Stations In Omaha, Nebraska
This is a list of media serving the Omaha metropolitan area in Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa. Radio Start dates are for the frequency/station license, not for callsign or programming that may have moved from license to license. Omaha radio stations gets 25 Analog FM stations, 11 Digital HD Radio FM stations including 10 subchannels Like HD-2 and HD-3, 11 Analog AM stations, and 1 Digital HD Radio AM Station affiliated KFAB. AM FM Television Omaha TV stations gets 8 full-powered Digital channels including 32 subchannels and 1 low-powered Digital channel including 2 subchannels. In Spring 2022 KXVO channel 15 was launched and became the first television station in Nebraska to use ATSC 3.0 including 3 subchannels are KMTV (CBS), KXVO (TBD), and KPTM (Fox) and 2 DRM subchannels both are WOWT (NBC) and KETV (ABC), and 3 Internet streaming subchannels are KYNE (PBS), T2, and Pickleball TV. Print The ''Omaha World-Herald'', the '' Omaha Bee'', and by 1900 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omaha Metropolitan Area
Omaha ( ) is the List of cities in Nebraska, most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's List of United States cities by population, 41st-most-populous city, Omaha had a population of 486,051 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The eight-county Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which extends into Iowa, has approximately 1 million residents and is the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 55th-largest metro area in the United States. Omaha is the county seat of Douglas County, Nebraska, Douglas County. Omaha's pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the "Gateway to the West". Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Sports Radio
Fox Sports Radio is an Radio in the United States, American Sports radio, sports radio network. Based in Los Angeles, California, the network is operated and managed by Premiere Networks in a content partnership with Fox Corporation's Fox Sports (United States), Fox Sports division and iHeartMedia, parent company of Premiere Networks. With studios also in New York City, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Tampa, Florida, Tampa, Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tulsa, Cincinnati, and Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio is broadcast on more than 400 stations, as well as FoxSports.com on MSN and iHeartRadio. Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) sold its stake in Sirius XM Radio in the second quarter of fiscal year 2013. As a result, nine of Clear Channel's eleven XM Satellite Radio stations, including Fox Sports Radio, ceased broadcast over XM on October 18, 2013. Fox Sports Radio returned to the Sirius XM radio lineup on January 20, 2017. The Sirius XM feed contains some l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOZN
KOZN (1620 AM) is a sports station licensed to Bellevue, Nebraska, and serving the Omaha metropolitan area. It is owned by NRG Media, with studios at Dodge Street and 50th Avenue in Midtown Omaha. It airs a sports radio format. By day, KOZN is powered at 10,000 watts non-directional. But at night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1620 AM, it reduces power to 1,000 watts. The transmitter site is on Harrison Street at South 60th Street in Bellevue, Nebraska. Programming KOZN has local sports programming Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Weekdays begin with ''Mornings with Sharp and Handley'' followed by ''The Connor Happer Show'' in middays, ''Unsportsmanlike Conduct'', hosted by John Bishop and Josh Peterson, in afternoon drive time, and ''After Hours with Jimmie Allen'' in early evenings. Other local shows include''The Creighton Athletics Hour'' hosted by Jimmie Allen, ''Severe Reaction with Mike'l Severe'', and pre and postgame sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLNG
KLNG (1560 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States, the station serves the Omaha-Lincoln-Council Bluffs area. The station is licensed to Wilkins Communications Network, Inc. History The station went on the air as KSWI (for "Southwest Iowa") in 1947. The station at the time was owned by the Council Bluffs Nonpareil newspaper and the studios were located in the Strand Theater in Council Bluffs. Around 1963 or 1964, the station was purchased by Abe Slusky, the studios were moved to a location at 546 Mynster Street, and the call letters were changed to KRCB ("Radio Council Bluffs"). In July 1967, Slusky sold KRCB to Michigan lawyer James J. Conroy. In March 1969, KRCB adopted a Top 40 format, and would add an FM sister station, KRCB-FM (98.5), that same year. The polka music programming that had been a popular feature on KSWI was given new life on KRCB in 1970 as "The Big Joe Polka Show"; hosted by Joe Siedli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. Since 2000, 1970s music has been increasingly included in this genre. " Classic hits" have been seen as a successor to the oldies format on the radio, with music from the 1980s serving as the core example. Description This category includes styles as diverse as doo-wop, early rock and roll, novelty songs, bubblegum music, folk rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop, surf music, soul music, rhythm and blues, classic rock, some blues and some country music. Golden Oldies usually refers to music exclusively from the 1950s and 1960s. Oldies radio typically features artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon, The Four Seasons, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Little Richard and Sam Cooke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KIBM
KIBM (1490 AM) is a commercial radio station in Omaha, Nebraska, serving the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area. KIBM airs an oldies radio format known as "Boomer Radio." It is owned and operated by Steven Seline, through licensee Walnut Radio, LLC. The studios and offices are on Burt Street in Omaha. KIBM is powered at 970 watts during the day and 900 watts at night, using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is near South 38th Street and Wright Street in the Hanscom Park neighborhood near Downtown Omaha. Programming is also heard on two FM translators at 94.5 and 104.1 MHz in Omaha. History Early years The station signed on the air in . The original call sign was KBON and the power was 250 watts, a fraction of its current output. It was owned by Inland Broadcasting and was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System. After 28 years as KBON, the station changed to KLNG on July 1, 1970, and flipped to an all-news format. By early 1977, KLNG identified as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KXCB
KXCB (1420 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, the station serves the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It is owned and operated by Steven Seline, through licensee Hickory Radio, LLC. The studios and offices are on Burt Street near North 120th Street and Dodge Road in West Omaha. By day, KXCB is powered at 1,000 watts. But at night, to protect other stations on 1420 AM from interference, it reduces power to 330 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times with a two-tower array. The transmitter is in Council Bluffs, off South 36th Street, near the Missouri River. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K293CX at 106.5 MHz in Council Bluffs. History Early years The station signed on the air on . The original call sign was KOOO and it was a daytimer, broadcasting at 500 watts but required to go off the air at night. It aired a country music format. It later began simulcasting wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremont, Nebraska
Fremont is a city in and the county seat of Dodge County, Nebraska, Dodge County in the eastern portion of the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. The population was 27,141 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Nebraska, 6th most populous city in Nebraska. Fremont is the home of Midland University. History From the 1830s to the 1860s, the area saw a great deal of traffic due to the Mormon Trail, which passed along the north bank of the Platte River. A ferry connected the two banks of the Elkhorn River near Fremont. It was a major overland route for emigrant settlers going to the West, the military and hunters. Fremont was laid out in 1856 in anticipation that the railroad would be extended to that site. It was named after the American explorer, politician and military official General John C. Frémont. By 1857, there were 13 log houses in the town. The Union Pacific Railroad reached the town in December 1865 becoming the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing Narrative, stories about Working class in the United States, working-class and blue-collar worker, blue-collar American life. Country music is known for its ballads and dance tunes (i.e., "Honky-tonk#Music, honky-tonk music") with simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies generally accompanied by instruments such as banjos, fiddles, harmonicas, and many types of guitar (including acoustic guitar, acoustic, electric guitar, electric, steel guitar, steel, and resonator guitar, resonator guitars). Though it is primarily rooted in various forms of American folk music, such as old-time music and Appalachian music, many other traditions, including African-American, Music of Mexico, Mexican, Music of Ireland, Irish, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHUB
KHUB (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Fremont, Nebraska, United States, the station serves the Fremont area with fringe coverage to west Omaha. The station is currently owned by Steven W. Seline, through licensee Walnut Radio, LLC, and features programming from ABC Radio, Salem Communications, and Westwood One. History In October 1938, Lloyd Thomas, a former NBC official, announced at Hotel Pathfinder that Fremont needed its own radio station. On October 4, 1939, the Nebraska Broadcasting Corporation announced its intent to erect a radio station in Fremont after receiving FCC approval. On October 28, it was announced that the radio station would be named KORN. On November 5, it was announced that the stations studios would be located in Hotel Pathfinder. Construction of the transmission tower was originally meant to happen on December 13, 1939. However, due to shipping delays, construction did not start until December 16. The station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
