KFBK-FM

iHeart owns three talk stations in the Sacramento metropolitan area, KFBK-AM-FM, which air mostly local shows and news blocks on weekdays, and KSTE, which carries mostly syndicated conservative talk shows. Weekdays on KFBK-AM-FM begin with "The KFBK Morning News" with Cristina Mendonsa and Sam Shane, followed by The 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 with George Noory and This 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 paid brokered programming. Some weekday shows are repeated on weekends. ABC News Radio begins most hours nights and weekends.

The station signed on the air on August 19, 1976.[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1977/C%20Section%20Radio%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201977%20P-6.pdf Information] from the Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-30 Its original city of license was Susanville as KSUE-FM, broadcasting on 92.7 MHz and with an effective radiated power of 160 watts. The station was co-owned with KSUE (1240 AM). At first it simulcast the AM station but later switched to its own beautiful music format, playing instrumental cover versions of popular songs.

In 1988, the station moved to 93.3 MHz, coupled with a giant increase in power, to 100,000 watts.[https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2007/Radio-All-BC-YB-2007.pdf Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2007 page D-100] That made it a potential "move-in" station. If it could be moved closer to Sacramento, it would benefit from being in the more lucrative radio market.

On August 12, 1993, the call sign was changed to KJDX with a country 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 (now iHeartMedia) announced it was moving KHJQ's frequency from 93.3 to 93.1 so it would not interfere with the 93.3 frequency in nearby San Francisco. Because of this frequency move, KOSO in Patterson, California (targeting the Modesto 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 were voice tracked from other Clear Channel stations around the country.

On November 1, 2013, KHLX ended its classic hits format and began playing Christmas music for the holiday season.[http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/86515/christmas-comes-early-across-america/ "Christmas Comes Early Across America"] from Radio Insight (November 2, 2013)

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 a country music format.[http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/netgnomes/87047/clear-channel-prepping-sacramento-changes/ B92.5 Launches In Sacramento Following KFBK-FM Move To 93.1] from Radio Insight (January 10, 2014) KHLX has since switched its call letters to KBEB, first airing country music and now carrying a soft adult contemporary format as "The Breeze".

On February 1, 2011, KHLX added a smooth jazz format to its HD2 digital subchannel, using programming from iHeartRadio. It filled a void left when Smooth Jazz 94.7 KSSJ ended its jazz format and became KKDO. The KFBK-FM subchannel was turned off in 2022.

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• Radio & Records Magazine: https://web.archive.org/web/20060707045334/http://www.radioandrecords.com/ (1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11)
• Mediabase 24/7 Playlist, KGBY-FM: http://www.mmr247.com/mmrweb/allaccess/ (2, 5, 10, 12)
• PAM's Jingles Demo Page: http://jingles.com/jam/radioids/demodl.html (3)

• [https://kfbk.iheart.com/ KFBK-FM Website]
• [http://prideradiosacramento.com/main.html Sacramento Pride Website]

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