KRNB
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MHz | |
Branding | Smooth R&B 105.7 |
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Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Format | Urban adult contemporary |
Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
Ownership | |
Owner | Service Broadcasting Corporation |
KKDA-FM | |
History | |
First air date | 1996 |
Call sign meaning | K Rhythm aNd Blues |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 9747 |
Class | C |
ERP | 93,000 watts |
HAAT | 576 meters |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | krnb.com |
KRNB (105.7
History
KRNB was first launched at 6 a.m. on September 16, 1996, with an Urban Adult Contemporary format playing
After KRBV changed formats, KRNB was the sole Urban AC for two years. However, due to its transmitter location, it was easier to pick up in the northern and western portions of the Metroplex, but harder to pick up in the Southern and Eastern portions, especially in the southern half of Dallas and downtown Dallas. In 2002, KSOC changed formats from
KRNB's current on-air personalities include Rudy Rush, Claudia Jordan, Sean Andre, Keith Solis, Lynne Haze and Janet G.
Since 2002, it has competed with KSOC (for a time branded as "K-Soul" from 2002 to 2011 and again in 2014; and as "Old School 94.5" from 2011 to 2014) with an Urban AC format. However, as of November 15, 2014, KSOC flipped to classic hip hop, leaving KRNB as the sole Urban AC station in the Metroplex until September 11, 2017, when KSOC (now KZMJ) returned to Urban AC as "Majic 94.5".[4]
Former KRNB
The original KRNB-FM was a tribal run student radio station in Neah Bay, Washington. Starting in 1976 the station provided news, weather and information for the Makah Indian Tribe. Located on the high school campus it was billed as "The Native American Voice of the Pacific Northwest" and operated at 10 watts with an international reach extreme southern Vancouver Island in Canada just across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The station broadcast a wide range of formats including easy listening, contemporary 70s pop and at night album oriented rock. In 1982 the KRNB call letters surfaced in Memphis TN as "MAGIC 101" an R&B station now KJMS.
Signal
Unlike most of the area's FM stations like sister KKDA-FM, which transmit their signals from Cedar Hill, KRNB transmits its signal from an unincorporated area East of Alvord in Wise County. Therefore, KRNB's signal is much stronger in the Northwestern parts of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex as well as the cities of Decatur, Bowie, Gainesville, and Sherman, to as far north as South of Ardmore, Oklahoma, but is considerably weaker in Dallas and areas Southeast of the city itself.
References
- ^ "Smooth R&B 105.7 Has Moved To A New Location -". January 11, 2018. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
- Dallas Morning News. 1995-10-22.
- Dallas Morning News. 1996-09-17.
- ^ "Majic Is Back In Dallas As KSOC Flips Back To Urban AC - RadioInsight". RadioInsight. 11 September 2017.
External links
- KRNB official website
- KRNB in the FCC FM station database
- KRNB in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- DFW Radio Archives
- DFW Radio/TV History