KFJB

Last updated
KFJB
Frequency 1230 kHz
BrandingThe Source
Programming
Format News/talk and sports
Affiliations ABC News Radio
Fox News Radio
SportsMap
Compass Media Networks
Premiere Networks
Westwood One
Motor Racing Network
Ownership
Owner
  • Robert and Colleen Holtan
  • (Trending Media, Inc.)
History
First air date
June 2, 1923
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 40465
Class C
Power 1,000 watts
Transmitter coordinates
 42°3′51″N92°58′3″W / 42.06417°N 92.96750°W / 42.06417; -92.96750
Translator(s) 93.9 K230CB (Marshalltown)
Links
Public license information
Website www.1230KFJB.com

KFJB (1230 AM) is a commercial radio station in Marshalltown, Iowa, which broadcasts a news/talk and sports format. The station is licensed to Trending Media, Inc. It broadcasts with a 1,000 watt non-directional antenna. Its programming is also carried by a 250 watt FM translator, K230CB, at 93.9 MHz.

Contents

Programming

Weekdays begin on KFJB with a local morning news and information show, as well as an hour of news at noon. The rest of the daytime schedule is made up of nationally syndicated programming, including Brian Kilmeade, Sean Hannity and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal. Most weekday hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio. Nights and weekends, sports programming is carried from SB Nation Radio.

History

KFJB is one of Iowa's oldest radio stations. It was founded by Earl N. Peak, president of Marshall Electric Company. In 1922 Peak asked Merle Easter, a Marshall Electric engineer, and Chauncey Hoover if they could build a "radio-telephone station". A five-wire transmitting antenna was mounted on poles on the west side of the Marshall Electric building at 1603 West Main Street at the corner of 16th and Main, for use by a 10-watt homemade transmitter. Even with this low power, reception reports were received from as far away as Canada and the Hawaiian Islands. Operations reportedly began in the spring of 1922, under amateur radio authorizations with the call signs 9DCV, licensed to Merle Frank Easter, [2] and 9LT, licensed to the Marshall Electric Company. [3] [4]

A station history reports it was the first in the country to remotely broadcast a high school football game. The station was three blocks away from Franklin Field, and Peak was able to string a cable between the studio and the football field to facilitate the broadcast. [4]

On June 2, 1923, the US Department of Commerce, which regulated radio at this time, granted Marshall Electric a commercial broadcast license, for 10 watts on 1210 kHz. [5] The call letters, KFJB, were randomly assigned from an alphabetical roster of available call signs. On November 11, 1928, under the provisions of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, KFJB was reassigned to 1200 kHz, on a timesharing basis with WMT, then in Waterloo, Iowa. [6] The next year WMT moved to 600 kHz, so KFJB no longer had to share its assignment.

In March 1941, with the implementation of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, most stations on 1200 kHz, including KFJB, were moved to 1230 kHz. [7] The station was purchased by the Times-Republican Printing Company in 1947. Its owners, the Norris family, maintained control of KFJB AM and FM until December 29, 1986, when it was purchased by Marshalltown Broadcasting, Inc.

KFJB-FM, which became KMTG in September 1986, was changed to KXIA in June 1987. KFJB-FM began broadcast operations in 1968, with a power of 27,000 watts. It is now classified as a C1 station, which allows a maximum power of 100,000 watts and a maximum antenna height of 1,000 feet. [8]

KFJB is one of the few radio stations in the U.S. to have the same call letters for its entire history, dating back to the early days of broadcasting. In 2012 KFJB celebrated its 90th anniversary on the air. [8]

FM translator

KFJB is rebroadcast on the FM band by translator station K230CB.

Broadcast translator for KFJB
Call sign Frequency City of license FID ERP (W) HAAT Class Transmitter coordinatesFCC info
K230CB93.9 FM Marshalltown, Iowa 201125250104  m (341  ft)D 42°01′21″N92°59′58″W / 42.02250°N 92.99944°W / 42.02250; -92.99944 LMS

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KFJB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "Ninth District" (edition June 30, 1921), Amateur Radio Stations of the United States, page 182. The "9" in 9DCV's call sign specified that the station was located in the ninth Radio Inspection district. The fact that "D" fell in the range A-W indicated that the station was operating under a standard amateur radio license.
  3. ↑ "Ninth District", Amateur Radio Stations of the United States (edition June 30, 1924), page 262.
  4. 1 2 "Early History of KFJB, Marshalltown Iowa" (1230kfjb.com)
  5. ↑ "New Stations", Radio Service Bulletin, July 2, 1923, page 3.
  6. ↑ "Revised list of broadcasting stations, by frequencies, effective 3 a. m., November 11, 1928, eastern standard time", Second Annual Report of the Federal Radio Commission for the Year Ended June 30, 1928, Together With Supplemental Report for the Period From July 1, 1928 to September 30, 1928, page 207.
  7. ↑ "United States station assignments by frequency", Arrangement between the United States of America, Canada, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico, comprising recommendations of the North American Regional Radio-Engineering Meeting (supplemental to North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, Habana, 1937). Signed at Washington January 30, 1941; effective March 29, 1941, page 1430.
  8. 1 2 "Marshalltown Broadcasting: KFJB and KXIA", The Chamber Digest, Marshalltown, Iowa, May 2011, Volume 28 Issue 12, page 2.


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