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KBOI (AM)
KBOI (670 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Boise, Idaho, United States. Owned by Cumulus Media, KBOI simulcasts a talk format with KBOI-FM. Studios are on Bannock Street in Downtown Boise, while the transmitter site resides on Cloverdale Road in Kuna.
With a good radio, KBOI 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.
The station first signed on the air on August 11, 1947. 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 for much of this period. In 1953, Boise Valley Broadcasters put a TV station on the air, Channel 2 KBOI. It was Boise's second TV station after KIDO-TV (channel 7).
On February 11, 1955, the stations switched their call letters to KBOI and KBOI-TV. The change in call signs took place, along with the relocation of the television station's city of license from Meridian to Boise. An FM radio station was added in 1960, 97.9 KBOI-FM (now KQFC). For the first few years, the AM and FM stations simulcast their programming. As network programming moved from radio to television, KBOI-AM-FM switched to a 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.
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. 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.
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KBOI (AM)
KBOI (670 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Boise, Idaho, United States. Owned by Cumulus Media, KBOI simulcasts a talk format with KBOI-FM. Studios are on Bannock Street in Downtown Boise, while the transmitter site resides on Cloverdale Road in Kuna.
With a good radio, KBOI 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.
The station first signed on the air on August 11, 1947. 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 for much of this period. In 1953, Boise Valley Broadcasters put a TV station on the air, Channel 2 KBOI. It was Boise's second TV station after KIDO-TV (channel 7).
On February 11, 1955, the stations switched their call letters to KBOI and KBOI-TV. The change in call signs took place, along with the relocation of the television station's city of license from Meridian to Boise. An FM radio station was added in 1960, 97.9 KBOI-FM (now KQFC). For the first few years, the AM and FM stations simulcast their programming. As network programming moved from radio to television, KBOI-AM-FM switched to a 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.
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. 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.