KCBC-FM (defunct)

KCBC-FM

City	Des Moines, Iowa
Branding	KCBC 94
Slogan	"Small But Mighty"
Frequency	94.1 (MHz)
First air date	1949
Format	Easy Listening
ERP	10,000 watts
Owner	Capital City Broadcasting Company

KCBC-FM (94.1 FM, "KCBC 94") was a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa from 1949-1953. Its studios were located at 2323 Grand Avenue on the near west side of Des Moines. The original transmitter and tower were also located on the property until 1950. In 1950, KCBC purchased the former WHO-FM transmitter and tower on top of the Equitable Building at 6th and Locust in downtown Des Moines.

Format

The format that KCBC-FM adopted was an Easy Listening/Musak format that was targeted at people riding the city's buses. At the rear of KCBC's Grand Avenue property there was a barn where they installed FM receivers in the city's buses. The plan to target music and advertisements to the city's bus riders was not a profitable one, and after just four years, KCBC-FM left the air, donating their transmitter to the Des Moines Public Schools. The school district used the transmitter to put KDPS on air the same year at 88.1 FM. After KCBC-FM's licence was deleted in 1953, no other station in Des Moines has used the 94.1 frequency until 2005, when a low-powered radio station from Grand View University, KGVC-LP, signed on at 94.1 FM.

References

The history of KCBC from DesMoinesBroadcasting.com. Accessed June 23, 2006.

Radio stations in the Des Moines–Ames, Iowa market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 88.7 88.9 89.3 90.1 91.3 91.7 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.9 96.1 96.3 97.3 97.7 97.9 98.3 98.9 99.3 99.9 100.3 101.1 101.7 102.5 103.3 104.1 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.3 107.1 107.5

By AM frequency	540 640 940 1040 1150 1260 1310 1350 1430 1460 1490 1590 1700

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By callsign	K260AM KASI KAZR KBGG KCYZ KDFR KDLF KDLS KDLS-FM KDPS KDRA KDRB KDXA KFMG-LP KGGO KHKI KICG KICJ KICL KICP KIOA KJJY KJMC KKDM KMYR KNSL KNWI KNWM KPSZ KPUL KRNT KSTZ KTIA-FM KURE KWBG KWDM KWKY KWMT KWQW KXIA KXLQ KXNO WHO WOI WOI-FM WXL57

Defunct	KCBC-FM KGVC-LP (94.1 FM)

Nearby radio markets Cedar Rapids–Iowa City Fort Dodge Kansas City Omaha–Council Bluffs Ottumwa Sioux City Waterloo–Cedar Falls See also List of radio stations in Iowa

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