KYFO-FM (95.5MHz) is aradio station inOgden, Utah, United States. The station serves Ogden andSalt Lake City withConservativeChristian programming from theBible Broadcasting Network. The primary transmitter site is located west of Ogden; a 7-watt booster for the main signal and a translator at 91.3 FM are located onEnsign Peak, improving reception in Salt Lake City itself.

The El Paso Broadcasting Corporation was granted a construction permit to build a new 100 kW FM station in Ogden on May 16, 1977. The construction permit took the call letters KVFM.^[2] After being renamed Utah Broadcasting Corporation in 1982, the permittee signed the station on in June 1983;^[3] two months later, Utah Broadcasting sold KVFM to Sherman Greenleigh Sanchez Broadcasting of Utah, owners ofKJQN (1490 AM).^[4] As a result, KVFM became KJQN-FM "KJQ", partially simulcasting its AM sister.^[3]

KJQ flipped to alternative on March 1, 1988, with many of its new airstaff refugees from the formerKCGL-FM, which was flipped to religious programming when it was sold in 1986.^[5] The station also expanded its reach by broadcasting on translators at 92.7 MHz in Salt Lake City and 104.9 in Provo (activated in 1989).^[6]

Abacus Broadcasting Corporation acquired KJQN-AM-FM in 1989 for $700,000; Abacus was owned by minority shareholders from the original permittee.^[7] While the format remained unchanged, the early 1990s brought mounting troubles. In the final months of 1991, 23 of the station's 25 employees quit their jobs,^[8] after the station hired its third general manager in 14 months and rumors swirled of a format flip; staffers quit because they questioned the ownership's commitment to "modern music".^[9] Only two DJs, the hosts of the morning show, remained with KJQ;^[10] the station also lost 75 percent of its music library and some equipment, as well as several advertising clients.^[11] The former KJQ employees then brokered out time on KZOL (96.1 FM), which becameKXRK on February 13, 1992.^[12] When the former employees acquired KXRK outright in 1993 for $925,000, the application included a copy of a lawsuit filed by the former KJQN-FM, alleging that its former employees took equipment, including a former milk truck used for remote broadcasts known as the "Milk Beast", when they defected, and that the ex-KJQ staffers used KJQN-owned trademarks and made defamatory remarks about their former station.^[13]

Nearly eight months after the mass defection that birthed KXRK, Abacus had seen enough. It flipped KJQN-FM to KKBE-FM "The Killer Bee", a contemporary hit radio outlet, at 5 p.m. on October 6, 1992.^[14] KKBE-FM drew many of its staff from alumni ofKWCR-FM, the radio station atWeber State University.^[15] The Killer Bee, however, did not last eight months itself; in May 1993, it yielded to gospel from the Super Gospel Network, after it was rumored that the station would go country.^[16] Owner Michael Haston revealed that he had been faked out when contemporary competitorKZHT flipped to rock and then changed right back days later, leaving KKBE in a three-way format battle; furthermore, ratings were hurt when the Provo translator was out of service for three months.^[17]

By the end of 1992, Abacus Broadcasting had filed for bankruptcy.^[18] The Chapter 7^[19] bankruptcy case was resolved when KKBE-FM and KJOE (the former KJQN AM) were purchased at auction by theBible Broadcasting Network for $455,000 in 1994; both stations flipped to BBN religious programming as KYFO FM and AM.^[20]

KYFO-FM operates a booster on 95.5 MHz and a translator on 91.3 MHz fromEnsign Peak, which improve the signal in Salt Lake City. The translator has been associated with KYFO since the KJQ days, when it was K224BY; it moved from 92.7 MHz to 91.3 in 2006 after being forced off the air whenKUUU moved to first-adjacent 92.5.^[21]

The Provo translator, K285EA, later became K284AI, simulcasting Logan-basedKVFX. The move-in of Wyoming stationKYLZ to the Salt Lake City market and the commissioning of a booster network forced that translator off the air in 2009.^[22]

• List of Salt Lake City media

• Facility details for Facility ID 5176 (KYFO-FM) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• KYFO-FM inNielsen Audio's FM station database

• Mass media in Salt Lake City
• Radio stations established in 1983
• 1983 establishments in Utah
• Bible Broadcasting Network
• Christian radio stations in Utah

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