KJR-FM
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Owner |
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KBKS-FM, KHHO, KJAQ, KJEB, KJR, KPTR, KZOK-FM | |
History | |
First air date | May 6, 1964 | (as KBLE-FM)
Former call signs | KBLE-FM (1964–1982) KUBE (1982–2016) KPWK (2016–2018) KUBE (2018–2022) |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 48387 |
Class | C0 |
ERP | 100,000 watts |
HAAT | 387 meters (1,270 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 47°32′39″N 122°06′30″W / 47.544278°N 122.108444°W |
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Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live HD2: Listen Live |
Website | 933kjr.iheart.com HD2: kube933.iheart.com |
KJR-FM (93.3
History
Early years (1964–1981)
The station
Within a few years, the formats were flipped. KBLE-FM began playing country music while the AM station changed its callsign to KBLE and served as a Christian radio station.[4] KBLE-FM's power was increased to 20,000 watts and its transmitter was moved to Cougar Mountain in Issaquah.
In the 1970s, the stations were acquired by Ostrander-Wilson, which returned the religious format to KBLE-FM. It also increased its power to 100,000 watts, making it audible around the Puget Sound region from Olympia to Mount Vernon.
Top 40/CHR (1981–1991)
On March 17, 1981, after First Media bought the station, KBLE-FM flipped to an
On July 8, 1981, at 5:04 p.m., KBLE-FM officially launched with a live and local on-air staff.[8][9] On April 2, 1982, the call letters were changed to KUBE, and the station became known as "KUBE 93 FM". Shortly after the switch to Top 40/CHR, KUBE shot up to the top 5 in the Seattle radio market ratings (occasionally reaching #1 in some books and target demographics) and would later become the dominant CHR station in the market. In 1988, Cook Inlet Radio Partners acquired the station.
KUBE primarily competed against two other Top 40/CHR stations in the Seattle-Tacoma market:
Rhythmic (1991–2016)
In November 1991, KUBE gradually shifted to a rhythmic contemporary direction as "KUBE 93 Jams" (but still retained its normal movement on mainstream titles) and maintained strong ratings during this period.[11]
In March 1994, Cook Inlet sold KUBE to a partnership between New Century Management and the
In February 1998, the Ackerley Group bought the station outright from New Century.[15]
For many years, KUBE marketed itself as "Seattle's #1 Hit Music Station, KUBE 93". iHeartMedia (then known as Clear Channel Communications) purchased KUBE, along with sister stations KJR, KJR-FM, KFNK and outdoor advertiser AK Media, from Ackerley Communications in 2001. On April 1, 2009, Clear Channel acquired Top 40 rival KBKS-FM from CBS Radio. At the time, KUBE was competing against rhythmic AC station KQMV (Movin' 92.5), owned by Sandusky. KUBE changed its slogan to "More Non-Stop Music", and then later to "Hits & Hip-Hop".
KUBE was the home of The T-Man Show morning show, which aired from September 1995 to September 2009, when "The T-Man" retired to become a professional poker player.[16] The show featured Robert "The T-Man" Tepper (who marketed himself using only his voice), as well as co-hosts Pasty Dave (who was the show's producer), Hot Shot Scott, Dump Truck Guy, Ham Sandwich Man, Stephen Kilbreath, Vinnie The Pooh and Tari Free. The show was also briefly syndicated through Premiere Radio Networks, and was heard on KKRZ in Portland, KYLD in San Francisco and several other cities.
Shellie Hart, longtime midday DJ and music director for the station, was let go in November 2011 because of budget cuts issued by Clear Channel. Hart had been with the station since 1991, except for a brief 3-year period between 1996 and 1999, when Hart programmed modern rock station KEDJ Phoenix.[17] Hart is currently at KRWM.
Despite many years of high ratings, around 2011, however, KUBE's ratings began declining. KUBE was also no exception to company-wide budget cuts at Clear Channel, with several long-time personalities replaced with
KUBE also rotated through a few morning shows after The T-Man Show ended, such as Eddie Francis & Karen Wild, The JV Show (syndicated from sister KYLD), The Breakfast Club, and DJ SupaSam. None of these programming changes resulted in any ratings improvement for the station. In the December 2015 Nielsen ratings period for the Seattle market, KUBE was ranked #13 with a 2.3 share.[18][19]
Back to Top 40 (2016–2018)
As part of a major format shuffle involving four of iHeart's Seattle radio stations, on January 19, 2016, at noon, after playing "Whatever You Like" by T.I. and a commercial break, KUBE's long-time rhythmic CHR format and branding moved to lower-power sister station KKBW (104.9 FM), displacing that station's active rock format. At the same time, 93.3 adopted KBKS's mainstream CHR format, added some newer rhythmic titles to the playlist, and rebranded as "Power 93.3".[20][21] The first song on "Power" was "Sorry" by Justin Bieber.[22] This returned the 93.3 frequency in Seattle to a Top 40/Mainstream format for the first time in nearly 24 years. The station also brought in a new live and local air staff which included Carla Marie & Anthony for mornings, Kat Fisher for middays, Kwame Dankwa on the afternoon drive, and Brady for evenings.
The station took on the KPWK call letters on January 26, 2016; the KUBE call letters moved to KKBW the same day. Ratings did not improve much, with the station usually ranked in the mid-2 to mid-3 share of the market. Meanwhile, KQMV saw a big ratings boost at the time, sometimes finishing in first place. In the April 2018 ratings, KPWK was ranked #18 with a 2.8 share, well behind KQMV, which had a 6.8 share.[23]
Back to rhythmic (2018–2022)
On May 3, 2018, at 3 p.m., after playing "
Sports (2022–present)
At midnight on February 19, 2022, KUBE dropped the rhythmic CHR format again, and began
The move of KJR's programming to FM was part of a multi-station switch; on April 11, KJR shifted to all-syndicated programming from
HD Radio
KJR-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio format.
When KUBE signed on HD operations in 2006, KUBE's HD2 sub-channel carried a hip hop format branded as "KUBE 2". In 2009, it was replaced with a broad-based rhythmic format known as "WiLD". The "WiLD" format was patterned after most Clear Channel owned rhythmic top 40 stations by playing mainstream rhythmic pop/dance tracks and very few hip hop/R&B tracks. This would later be replaced with a
It has since been moved to the HD2 sub-channel of KBKS. On February 19, 2022, KUBE's hip hop format and branding returned to the HD2 channel.References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KJR-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "KJR-FM 93.3 MHz - Seattle, WA". radio-locator.com.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1964 page B-172
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1970 page B-218
- ^ KUBE 93 FM is born, July 8, 1981, first minutes in format. Retrieved 2024-04-04 – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1982 page B-256
- ^ "Radio & Records, April 3, 1981" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com.
- ^ "KUBE 93 FM is born, July 8, 1981, first minutes in format". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
- ^ "History of KUBE 93 FM". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2017-12-10.
- ^ "Radio & Records, September 22, 1995" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com.
- ^ indychauffuer (23 March 2016). "KUBE Seattle". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Radio & Records, March 4, 1994" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com.
- ^ "Radio & Records, May 20, 1994" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com.
- ^ "Radio & Records, November 11, 1994" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com.
- ^ "Radio & Records, February 27, 1998" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com.
- ^ "Entertainment & the Arts - T-Man Predicts He'll Be No. 1 In The Morning - Seattle Times Newspaper". community.seattletimes.nwsource.com.
- ^ "Radio & Records, March 1, 1996" (PDF). worldradiohistory.com.
- ^ "Login to All Access - Breaking Radio News and Free New Music - AllAccess.com".
- ^ Causes and Effects of iHeart's Seattle Shuffle
- ^ "iHeart Shuffles Four Seattle/Tacoma Stations - RadioInsight". 19 January 2016.
- ^ "iHeart Rearranges Seattle FM Dial". insideradio.com. 2016-01-19. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
- ^ "Power 93.3 Seattle Debuts | Format Change Archive". Formatchange.com. 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
- ^ a b "KUBE 93.3 Returns In Seattle - RadioInsight". 3 May 2018.
- ^ "KUBE 93.3, Seattle's longtime hip-hop station, is back". Seattle Times. 2018-05-03. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
- ^ "Call Sign History".
- ^ Audio of KUBE Relaunch - Lucas Nugent
- ^ "KUBE Makes Flip To KJR Simulcast". RadioInsight. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ^ 1090 The Patriot Launches in Seattle; KJR Moves Exclusively to 93.3
- ^ "Call Sign History".
- ^ https://fccdata.org/?lang=en&facid=53850 [bare URL]
- ^ "Sports Radio 93.3 KJR • Seattle's Sports Leader - :15a". YouTube.
- ^ "Sports Radio 93.3 KJR • Seattle's Sports Leader - :15b". YouTube.
- ^ "HD Radio station guide for San Francisco, California". hdradio.com.
- ^ iHeartMedia Expands Pride Radio to 12 Additional Markets
External links
- KJR in the FCC FM station database
- KJR in Nielsen Audio's FM station database