KRIB
Frequency1490 kHz C-QUAM AM stereo
BrandingAM 1490 & FM 96.7 KRIB
Programming
FormatSoft Oldies–Adult Standards
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KGLO, KIAI, KLSS, KYTC
History
First air date
April 1948 (1948-04)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID47095
ClassC
Power1,000 watts (unlimited)
Transmitter coordinates
43°08′06″N 93°12′28″W / 43.13500°N 93.20778°W / 43.13500; -93.20778
Translator(s)96.7 K244FA (Mason City)
Links
Public license information
Webcast
Websitekribam.com

KRIB (1490 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Mason City, Iowa. It is owned by Alpha Media and airs a Soft Oldies - Adult Standards radio format, using Westwood One's "America's Best Music" service. The radio studios and offices are on South Yorktown Pike.

KRIB is a Class C AM station, powered at 1,000 watts. It uses a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on 19th Street SW, near Monroe Avenue in Mason City.[2] Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K244FA at 96.7 MHz.[3]

History

Top 40, Oldies and Standards

The station signed on the air in April 1948. It was assigned the KRIB call sign by the Federal Communications Commission.[4]

Through the 1960s, 70s and early 80s, KRIB was the dominant Top 40 station for the Mason City market. This lasted until 1985 when the station made the transition to full service adult contemporary, competing against AC stations KLSS-FM and KGLO. This didn't last long, and in May 1987, KRIB flipped its format to oldies. Several years later, it began playing a mix of soft oldies and adult standards, using the syndicated service "America's Best Music" supplied by Westwood One.

The Winter Dance Party

KRIB was one of the first radio stations in Iowa to play Rock and Roll and Top 40 hits, thus attracting a young audience. In February 1959, the station was one of the sponsors of the Winter Dance Party at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. The show's master of ceremonies was KRIB disc jockey Bob Hale. The show featured The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, and Buddy Holly. Infamously, all three perished in a plane crash just north of the Mason City airport that night. It would later be described as "The Day the Music Died."

Over sixty years later, KRIB still changes its music format during the week of the anniversary of the Winter Dance Party, playing hit songs of the late 1950s and early 1960s, with an emphasis on tunes from February 1959.[5] On Saturday mornings, it also airs an hour of oldies from the 1960s.

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KRIB". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KRIB
  3. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/K244FA
  4. ↑ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  5. ↑ "KRIB website". KRIB-AM.


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