KFBK

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Coordinates: 38 ° 50 ′ 54 "  N , 121 ° 28 ′ 58"  W.

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KFBK
Radio station
Program type News and Talk
reception terrestrial ( MW ) 1530 kHz
50 kW Clear Channel
as Silmulcast on VHF 93.1 MHz and Internet live stream
Reception area Sacramento , California United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
Start of transmission 1922
Broadcaster iHeart Media
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KFBK's studios are located in the Arden Fair Shopping Mall in Sacramento

KFBK is a clear channel station in Sacramento , California . It belongs to the group of talk / news stations from iHeartMedia and takes over many important program parts from its Premiere Networks .

The KFBK signal reaches all of Northern California from the Sacramento Valley to the San Francisco Bay Area . At night, the western half of the USA is covered. Due to its license class as an “IB” station, the station shares “Class A status” on the MW 1530 kHz frequency with the east coast station WCKY in Cincinnati , Ohio . The program is broadcast simultaneously via the FM sister station KFBK-FM on 93.1 MHz.

The far-reaching right-wing conservative presenter Rush Limbaugh started his career at KFBK in 1984 with his first talk show . However, he moved to ABC Radio in 1988 and is now under contract with Premiere Networks. Limbaugh's program still runs in the same time slot on KFBK as it did then (9 a.m. to 12 p.m.); likewise the broadcast of Thomas M. Sullivan .

history

Founded in 1922, the station was sold to Westinghouse Broadcasting in the 1970s and became an affiliate of ABC Radio. In the early 1980s, KFBK was able to sign the then famous Morton Downey, Jr. for the lunch break. He was replaced by Rush Limbaugh in 1984.

Tom Sullivan , who also broadcasts across the US , also started at KFBK.

By lifting the ownership restrictions, iHeartMedia took over the station in the 1990s, as well as the VHF station KFBK-FM and a number of other radio stations on the radio market.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Find NewsRadio KFBK's Tuesday On-Air Schedule | NewsRadio KFBK. Retrieved September 4, 2017 (American English).
  2. ↑ FCC Renews KFI / Los Angeles, KFBK / Sacramento Licenses, Rejects Challenges . In: All Access . ( allaccess.com [accessed August 3, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Rush Limbaugh. Retrieved August 3, 2017 (American English).