The station went on the air on Sept. 26, 1947 as KBRL, a radio station built by Roy Lenwell. Lenwell retired and sold the station to Edwin S Towell III from Falls City, NE in 1972. The Santee Family purchased the station in January 1977. The station became a country station in 1977 and was sold to Jerry Venable and his bunch from KFNF in September 1981, and changed the calls to KSWN on 1982-10-11.[citation needed] On 1990-04-03, the station changed its call sign back to the current KBRL.[2]
kbrl, airport, serving, burlington, iowa, assigned, icao, code, southeast, iowa, regional, airport, 1300, radio, station, broadcasting, news, talk, format, licensed, mccook, nebraska, united, states, station, currently, owned, armada, media, mccook, nebraskafr. For the airport serving Burlington Iowa assigned the ICAO code KBRL see Southeast Iowa Regional Airport KBRL 1300 AM is a radio station broadcasting a news talk format Licensed to McCook Nebraska United States the station is currently owned by Armada Media 1 KBRLMcCook NebraskaFrequency1300 kHzBrandingThe BIG TalkerProgrammingFormatNews TalkAffiliationsABC Radio Premiere Radio NetworksOwnershipOwnerArmada Media Armada Media Mccook Inc Sister stationsKHAQ KXNP KODY KMTY KUVR KADL KICX KQHK KBRL KFNF KSTH KJBLHistoryFirst air date1946Former call signsKSWN 1982 1990 Technical informationFacility ID57516ClassDPower5 000 watts day136 watts nightTransmitter coordinates40 11 31 N 100 39 6 W 40 19194 N 100 65167 W 40 19194 100 65167LinksWebsitewww wbr highplainsradio wbr net wbr kbrl 1300 wbr History editThe station went on the air on Sept 26 1947 as KBRL a radio station built by Roy Lenwell Lenwell retired and sold the station to Edwin S Towell III from Falls City NE in 1972 The Santee Family purchased the station in January 1977 The station became a country station in 1977 and was sold to Jerry Venable and his bunch from KFNF in September 1981 and changed the calls to KSWN on 1982 10 11 citation needed On 1990 04 03 the station changed its call sign back to the current KBRL 2 References edit KBRL Facility Record United States Federal Communications Commission audio division KBRL Call Sign History United States Federal Communications Commission audio division Source for on air date Broadcasting Yearbook 1961 http www americanradiohistory com Archive BC YB 1961 62 Section 20B 202 20Radio 20 20Broadcasting 20Yearbook 201961 1962 10 pdfExternal links editKBRL in the FCC AM station database KBRL in Nielsen Audio s AM station database nbsp nbsp This article about a radio station in Nebraska is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title KBRL amp oldid 1221039786, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
