| Simulcast ofKFBKSacramento | |
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| Broadcast area | Sacramento metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 93.1MHz |
| Branding | News 93.1 KFBK |
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| Format | News-talk |
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| History | |
First air date | August 19, 1976; 49 years ago (1976-08-19) (at 92.7 inSusanville, California) |
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Call sign meaning | Taken from sister stationKFBK |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 60300 |
| Class | B1 |
| ERP | 20,500 watts |
| HAAT | 111 meters (364 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°38′10.5″N120°38′14″W / 38.636250°N 120.63722°W /38.636250; -120.63722 |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | kfbk.iheart.com |
KFBK-FM (93.1MHz) is acommercial radio stationlicensed toPollock Pines, California and serving theSacramento metropolitan area. ItsimulcastsKFBK (1530 AM). KFBK-AM-FM air anews-talkradio format and are owned byiHeartMedia. The studios and offices are on River Park Drive in North Sacramento, near theArden Fair Mall.[2]
KFBK-FM has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 20,500 watts. Thetransmitter is on Grizzly Flat Road at Mehwald Lane in Sweeneys Crossing, an unincorporated community inEl Dorado County.[3] KFBK-FM formerly broadcast in theHD Radio hybrid format.
iHeart owns three talk stations in theSacramento metropolitan area, KFBK-AM-FM, which air mostly local shows and news blocks on weekdays, andKSTE, which carries mostlysyndicatedconservative talk shows. Weekdays on KFBK-AM-FM begin with "The KFBK Morning News" with Cristina Mendonsa and Sam Shane, followed byThe Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,Tom Sullivan (originally local, now syndicated), John McGinness and "The Afternoon News with Kitty O'Neal". At night, three syndicated shows are heard: "The Pat Walsh Show",Coast to Coast AM withGeorge Noory andThis Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.
Weekends feature shows on money, health, the outdoors, guns, car repair and travel, some of which are paidbrokered programming. Some weekday shows are repeated on weekends.ABC News Radio begins most hours nights and weekends.
The stationsigned on the air on August 19, 1976.[4] Its originalcity of license wasSusanville as KSUE-FM, broadcasting on 92.7 MHz and with an effective radiated power of 160 watts. The station was co-owned withKSUE (1240 AM). At first it simulcast the AM station but later switched to its ownbeautiful music format, playing instrumentalcover versions of popular songs.
In 1988, the station moved to 93.3 MHz, coupled with a giant increase in power, to 100,000 watts.[5] That made it a potential "move-in" station. If it could be moved closer to Sacramento, it would benefit from being in the more lucrativeradio market.
On August 12, 1993, thecall sign was changed toKJDX with acountry music format.
In the summer of 2008, the station's transmitter was relocated closer to Sacramento, coupled with a change in its city of license to Pollock Pines. On November 11, 2008, Sierra Broadcasting swapped call signs and formats between KHJQ, which had moved from 92.3 FM in Susanville to the 93.3 FM frequency vacated by the station, and KJDX. This brought KJDX back to the 93.3 FM frequency in Susanville.
In May 2009, new owners Clear Channel Communications (nowiHeartMedia) announced it was moving KHJQ's frequency from 93.3 to 93.1 so it would not interfere withthe 93.3 frequency in nearby San Francisco. Because of this frequency move,KOSO inPatterson, California (targeting theModesto area), moved from 93.1 to 92.9 FM on June 1, 2009. The format became classic hits as "Classic 93.1" under the KHLX call letters. All disc jockeys werevoice tracked from other Clear Channel stations around the country.
On November 1, 2013, KHLX ended itsclassic hits format and began playingChristmas music for the holiday season.[6]
On December 19, 2013, Clear Channel announced it would switch its KFBK simulcast from 92.5 to 93.1. The call letters of KFBK-FM and KHLX would be flipped after the latter finished its holiday music programming on December 26, with the KFBK news/talk simulcast moving to 93.1, while KHLX took over the 92.5 frequency with acountry music format.[7] KHLX has since switched its call letters toKBEB, first airing country music and now carrying asoft adult contemporary format as "The Breeze".
On February 1, 2011, KHLX added asmooth jazz format to its HD2digital subchannel, using programming fromiHeartRadio. It filled a void left when Smooth Jazz 94.7 KSSJ ended its jazz format and becameKKDO. The KFBK-FM subchannel was turned off in 2022.