KEJB (1480 AM) is a

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broadcasting an

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, it serves the Eureka area. The station is owned by Bicoastal Media, though licensee Bicoastal Media Licenses II, LLC.

History

The station is the North Coast's oldest continuously operating radio station. It signed on in 1933 as KIEM. It gradually spawned the area's first television station,

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. The radio side changed its

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to KRED in 1961, but remained a sister station to KIEM-TV until the two stations were sold to separate owners in the 1970s. KGOE NewsTalkSports1480 logo

The station's call sign from 1996 to 2023, KGOE, came from a former

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of KGO (810 AM), a

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station in

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. On February 1, 2023, KGOE changed its format from

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to oldies, branded as "The Jukebox" under new KEJB call letters.Jukebox Opens in Eureka
Radioinsight - February 2, 2023

References

External links

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FCC History Cards for KEJB

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