KBOI (AM)

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KBOI
  • kHz
BrandingNews Talk KBOI
Programming
FormatNews/Talk
NetworkABC News Radio
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • FCC
Facility ID51211
ClassB
Power50,000 watts
Repeater(s)93.1 KBOI-FM (New Plymouth)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen live
Websitewww.kboi.com

KBOI (670

Studios and offices are on Bannock Street in Downtown Boise, while the AM transmitter site with its six-tower array is on Cloverdale Road in Kuna.[2]

KBOI is Idaho's most powerful AM station, broadcasting with 50,000 watts around the clock. During the day, a single non-directional antenna beams the station's full power to Southwestern Idaho and Eastern Oregon. At night, power is fed to all six towers in a directional pattern to avoid interfering with WSCR in Chicago, the Class A clear-channel station on 670 AM. With a good radio, KBOI 670 can be heard across much of the Western United States and Western Canada at night, but is strongest in the Pacific Northwest. Because of this, KBOI is Idaho's designated primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.

Programming

Weekdays begin with an news and information show, "Kasper and Chris," featuring Mike Kasper and Chris Walton. The KBOI morning newscaster is station news director Rick Worthington. KBOI's afternoon drive time slot is hosted Nate Shelman, who also serves as the station's program director.

In middays and nights, the station features

Westwood One Network. Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio
.

Weekends on KBOI include shows on money, real estate, home improvement, technology, law and gardening, as well as religious and paid brokered programming. Syndicated shows include Bill Handel on the Law, Rich DeMuro on Tech, The Ben Ferguson Show and Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham. The station broadcasts NFL football as an affiliate of the Seattle Seahawks' radio network.[3]

History

KDSH

The station first

signed on the air on August 11, 1947; 76 years ago (1947-08-11).[4] The call sign was originally KDSH with the studios at 311 North 10th Street. It was owned by Boise Valley Broadcasters, a subsidiary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
.

KDSH was originally on 950 kHz, powered at 5,000 watts. It was a

CBS Radio Network affiliate, carrying its dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio." In 1953, Boise Valley Broadcasters put a TV station on the air, Channel 2 KBOI. It was Boise's second TV station after Channel 7 KIDO-TV
.

KBOI

On February 11, 1955, the stations switched their call letters to KBOI

full service, middle of the road (MOR) format of popular music, news and sports. In the late 1960s, KBOI-FM broke away from the simulcast and began playing beautiful music
.

In the 1980s, as listeners switched from AM to FM for music listening, KBOI added more talk programming. It eventually completed the change over to all talk.

Cumulus Media

Logo before FM simulcast

In 2005, its owner at the time, Citadel Broadcasting, switched KBOI's affiliation to ABC's Information Network, in advance of Citadel's 2007 acquisition of ABC Radio. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.[7] At the beginning of 2015, Cumulus switched KBOI and most of its other news/talk stations from ABC News to Cumulus-owned Westwood One News. In 2020, Westwood One News was discontinued and KBOI returned to ABC News affiliation.

KBOI was the contracted radio station for Boise State University Broncos football and men's basketball from 1973 through early 2008, with Paul J. Schneider as play-by-play announcer. The Broncos returned to KBOI during the 2010 season with Bob Behler serving as the Voice of the Broncos.

FM simulcast

On January 3, 2022, KBOI began simulcasting on KTIK-FM (93.1), which concurrently took on the KBOI-FM call sign. KTIK-FM had previously simulcast the sports format of sister station KTIK.[8]

Morning show

The KBOI morning show, "Idaho's First Morning News/Idaho Talks Live" was anchored by Paul J. Schneider and Chris Walton until December 2018, when Schneider retired from full-time broadcasting after 51 years with KBOI-TV and KBOI Radio. Schneider, an

KKGL-FM
.

Idaho native Mike Kasper, the former morning drive co-host of Boise station KCIX, was hired by KBOI following Schneider's retirement. Since January 2019, the KBOI wake up program has been known as "Kasper and Chris".

The radio morning show was

Fox Television Network station KTRV-TV from 8am to 10am Monday through Friday from 2003 through 2010. KTRV dropped the program after Boise CBS affiliate television station KBCI-TV changed its call letters back to KBOI-TV
in 2010 (after spending the last 35 years as KBCI-TV) to reflect a renewed partnership with KBOI radio.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KBOI". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Radio-Locator.com/KBOI-AM
  3. ^ "Seahawks Radio Network Affiliates". Seattle Seahawks. Retrieved September 23, 2018.
  4. ^ Information from Broadcasting Yearbook 1949 page 112
  5. ^ "KBOI history cards" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  6. ^ "Boise Call Letter Changes" (PDF). Broadcasting–Telecasting. March 7, 1955. Retrieved March 13, 2022.
  7. ^ "Cumulus now owns Citadel Broadcasting". Atlanta Business Journal. September 16, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2011.
  8. ^ Cumulus Preparing January Boise Changes Radioinsight - January 3, 2022

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