KOBB-FM

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{{Infobox radio station

| name = KOBB-FM

| logo =

| logo_size =

| city = Bozeman, Montana

| area =

| branding = 93.7 The River

| airdate = {{start date|1980|11|1}}{{cite book|title=Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2009|year=2009|page=D-335|url=http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/2009/Radio-NE-UT-BC-YB-2009.pdf|accessdate=June 4, 2018}}

| frequency = 93.7 MHz

| repeater = 1230 KOBB (Bozeman)

| format = Classic hits

| erp = 51,000 watts

| haat = -39 meters

| class = C1

| facility_id = 16776

| coordinates = {{coord|45|41|35|N|110|58|50|W|region:US-MT_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| callsign_meaning =

| former_callsigns = KBZN (1978–1983){{cite web |title=KBZN (KOBB-FM) history cards |url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=71096 |website=CDBS Public Access |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=June 4, 2018 |format=PDF}}
KBOZ-FM (1983–1993)
KATH (1993–1997)

| affiliations =

| owner = Cameron Maxwell

| licensee = Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC

| sister_stations = KBOZ, KBOZ-FM, KOBB, KOZB

| webcast =

| website = [https://937theriverfm.com/ 937theriverfm.com]

| licensing_authority= FCC

}}

KOBB-FM (93.7 MHz) is a radio station licensed to serve Bozeman, Montana, United States. The station's license is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC.

KOBB-FM shares a transmitter site with KBOZ (AM) and KBOZ-FM, east of the studios on Johnson Road and Fowler Lane. KBOZ-FM, KOZB, and KOBB-FM all have CPs to move to a new shared transmitter site on top of Green Mountain, along I-90 east of Bozeman.

In 1984, it aired a Top-40 music format, competing against KCDQ. A few decades later when it became KOBB-FM, it began airing an oldies music format.{{cite web|title=Station Information Profile |work=Arbitron |url=http://www.arbitron.com/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301134627/http://www.arbitron.com/ |archivedate=2010-03-01 }} The station derives most of its programming from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel.{{cite web|publisher=Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel |title=Radio Stations |url=http://www.trueoldieschannel.com/html/stations.html |accessdate=December 19, 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728203304/http://www.trueoldieschannel.com/html/stations.html |archivedate=July 28, 2008 |url-status=dead }} {{as of|2009|7|df=us}}, KOBB-FM was the only station in Montana to carry The True Oldies Channel.

The station was assigned the KOBB-FM call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on April 11, 1997.{{cite web |title=Call Sign History |url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=16776&Callsign=KOBB-FM |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database}} Before oldies, the station carried a country music format as "The Kat".

On June 3, 2018, KOBB-FM and its sister stations went off the air.[https://radioinsight.com/headlines/168752/five-station-cluster-shuts-down-in-bozeman/ Five Station Cluster Shuts Down in Bozeman] Radioinsight - June 3, 3018{{Cite news|url=https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/business/kboz-radio-stations-go-dark-future-uncertain/article_ddb0d310-c8be-5a3e-b815-510e0a0d96bd.html|title=KBOZ radio stations go dark, future uncertain|last=Schontzler|first=Gail|work=Bozeman Daily Chronicle|access-date=2018-06-08|language=en}}

Effective December 6, 2019, the licenses for KOBB-FM and its sister stations were involuntary assigned from Reier Broadcasting Company to Richard J. Samson, as Receiver. The licenses for these stations were sold to Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC for $300,000 in a deal completed on January 31, 2022.{{Cite news|url=https://www.insideradio.com/features/deal_digest/deal-digest-february-3-2021/article_4013f5a8-84c3-11ec-a29c-57a514ef1e52.html|title=Deal Digest – February 3, 2021|access-date=2022-08-07}}

Translators

KOBB-FM programming is also carried on a broadcast translator station to extend or improve the coverage area of the primary station.

{{RadioTranslators

| callsign =

| call1 = K280CS

| freq1 = 103.9

| watts1 = 44

| class1 = D

| city1 = Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming

| fid1= 39763

}}

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