KBOZ-FM (99.9
MHz
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, "99.9 K-Bear") is a
radio station
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licensed to
Bozeman, Montana
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, United States. The station serves the Bozeman area. The station's license is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC.
KBOZ-FM shares a transmitter site with
KBOZ and
KOBB-FM, east of the studios on Johnson Road and Fowler Lane. KBOZ-FM,
KOZB, and
KOBB-FM all have
construction permit
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House building permits, for example, are subject to bu ...
s to move to a new shared transmitter site on top of Green Mountain, along I-90 east of Bozeman.
History
The station was assigned the call sign KZLO on December 17, 1992; an "-FM" suffix was added on March 22, 1993.
KZLO-FM signed on in April 1993 as a
country music
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station branded as "The Fox".
On May 21, 2004, the station became the current KBOZ-FM.
On June 1, 2018, KBOZ-FM and its sister stations went off the air.
Effective December 6, 2019, the licenses for KBOZ-FM and its sister stations were involuntary assigned from Reier Broadcasting Company, Inc. 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.
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Radio stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in Montana
Oldies radio stations in the United States
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