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KFBX (970 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Fairbanks, Alaska. It airs a talk radio format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on 9th Avenue off Cushman Street in Fairbanks.
KFBX is powered at 10,000 watts using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is off Farmer's Loop Road in Fairbanks.
Most programs on KFBX are nationally syndicated. Weekdays start with This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. That's followed by Armstrong & Getty, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Chris Plante Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, The Joe Pags Show and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Some shows are time-shifted due to time zone differences.
Weekends feature The Kim Komando Show, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Bill Handel on the Law, At Home with Gary Sullivan and Somewhere in Time with Art Bell as well as replays of weekday shows. Most hours begin with an update from iHeart's 24/7 News.
On July 24, 1970, Big Country Radio, Inc., owner of KYAK in Anchorage, applied for a construction permit to build a new radio station on 970 kHz in Fairbanks. It was approved on January 13, 1971. The station began broadcasting as KIAK on September 18, 1972. It aired a country music format.
In 1978, Big Country Radio decided to sell its three Alaska radio properties, KIAK, KYAK and KGOT, an FM station in Anchorage. The new owner was Prime Time of Alaska, a company owned by business people in Washington state. The price tag was more than $3 million. Prime Time owned a country music station in Everett, Washington, KWYZ.
1983 was an eventful year for KIAK. Prime Time sold the station to Bingham Broadcasting, controlled by a minority owner of a Seattle station. The sales price was $4.5 million. The sale included KIAK's FM construction permit, KQRZ (102.5 FM), which launched that July and originally played Top 40 hits.
At the end of that month, a 28-year-old man threatened to blow up the station if he did not get air time. He was startled to find that the station was actually an automated operation. The man ultimately surrendered. In fact, KIAK had been automated since 1975, using a syndicated format from Drake-Chenault. The automation equipment was dubbed by the station as the "Big Country Machine".
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KFBX
KFBX (970 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Fairbanks, Alaska. It airs a talk radio format and is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios and offices are on 9th Avenue off Cushman Street in Fairbanks.
KFBX is powered at 10,000 watts using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is off Farmer's Loop Road in Fairbanks.
Most programs on KFBX are nationally syndicated. Weekdays start with This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. That's followed by Armstrong & Getty, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Chris Plante Show, The Jesse Kelly Show, The Joe Pags Show and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Some shows are time-shifted due to time zone differences.
Weekends feature The Kim Komando Show, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Bill Handel on the Law, At Home with Gary Sullivan and Somewhere in Time with Art Bell as well as replays of weekday shows. Most hours begin with an update from iHeart's 24/7 News.
On July 24, 1970, Big Country Radio, Inc., owner of KYAK in Anchorage, applied for a construction permit to build a new radio station on 970 kHz in Fairbanks. It was approved on January 13, 1971. The station began broadcasting as KIAK on September 18, 1972. It aired a country music format.
In 1978, Big Country Radio decided to sell its three Alaska radio properties, KIAK, KYAK and KGOT, an FM station in Anchorage. The new owner was Prime Time of Alaska, a company owned by business people in Washington state. The price tag was more than $3 million. Prime Time owned a country music station in Everett, Washington, KWYZ.
1983 was an eventful year for KIAK. Prime Time sold the station to Bingham Broadcasting, controlled by a minority owner of a Seattle station. The sales price was $4.5 million. The sale included KIAK's FM construction permit, KQRZ (102.5 FM), which launched that July and originally played Top 40 hits.
At the end of that month, a 28-year-old man threatened to blow up the station if he did not get air time. He was startled to find that the station was actually an automated operation. The man ultimately surrendered. In fact, KIAK had been automated since 1975, using a syndicated format from Drake-Chenault. The automation equipment was dubbed by the station as the "Big Country Machine".