KBRO in

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and KNTB in Lakewood, both

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, are a pair of simulcasting

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s serving the Puget Sound region. KBRO broadcasts at 1490 kHz with 1,000 watts full-time while KNTB broadcasts at 1480 kHz with 1,000 watts day and 111 watts night. Both stations are owned by Iglesia Pentecostal Víspera del Fin.

History

KBRO, which signed on the air in May 1947, was the one-time sister station of the current

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during its early years as Bremerton's dominant community station. KNTB signed on the air as KQLA with an MOR and

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format in September 1978. The two stations became simulcasts in 1998 as affiliates of the Triangle Radio Network, a service that targeted the

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community with a mix of music, talk, and specialty fare. Controversy, a lack of support from advertisers and signal coverage would force the stations to drop the network and, in the process, be sold to its current owners, in September 2000. After short terms of broadcasting

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, and then a Hispanic Christian format, it settled into its current programming in 2005. Later,

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(in Lacey-Olympia, Washington) and K221FJ (an FM translator in Tacoma, Washington) were added to the network. The stations then broadcast programming from

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, alongside Spanish-language broadcasts of the

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and

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. On March 30, 2015, KBRO and KNTB went silent. On May 22, 2015, KBRO returned to the air with a simulcast of Spanish contemporary Christian-formatted KLSY 93.7 FM. On November 10, 2015, KNTB returned to the air, also simulcasting KLSY.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for KBRO
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