KJPW (1390 AM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

Waynesville, Missouri Waynesville is a city in and the county seat of Pulaski County, Missouri, United States. Its population was 5,406 at the 2020 census. Located in the Missouri Ozarks, it was once served by Route 66. History Waynesville was platted in 1839. The ...

, United States, the station is currently owned by

Alpha Media Alpha Media LLC is a radio broadcasting company based in Portland, Oregon, and led by Bob Proffitt. The group does business under the Alpha Media name. It was formed from the merger of Alpha Broadcasting, L&L Broadcasting, and Main Line Broadc ...

, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC, and features programming from

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. KJPW and its sister station,

KFBD-FM KFBD-FM (97.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. KFBD-FM and its AM sister station, KJPW, are the dominant news ra ...

, are the dominant news radio providers in the Pulaski County area, which includes

Fort Leonard Wood Fort Leonard Wood is a United States Army, U.S. Army training installation located in the Missouri The Ozarks, Ozarks. The main gate is located on the southern boundary of the city of St. Robert, Missouri, St. Robert. The post was created in De ...

, Waynesville, and St. Robert. The stations compete with the only other station broadcasting from Pulaski County, KFLW Radio, owned by the ''Lebanon Daily Record'' and working locally from the St. Robert offices of the ''Pulaski County Mirror'' weekly newspaper. The top-rated show on the station is currently ''

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'', from 11am to 2pm central.

History

Pulaski County Broadcasters, Inc. assigned the

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for the station to Ozark Broadcasting, Inc. on September 29, 2003. Also assigned was the license for sister station KJPW-FM (now KOZQ-FM), in a transaction valued at $735,000. Ozark assigned the licenses for both stations, as well as

KBNN KBNN (750 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Established in 1973, the station is licensed to Lebanon, Missouri, United States, and serves the Springfield, Missouri, area. The station is owned by Alpha Media and is licensed t ...

KJEL KJEL (103.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Lebanon, Missouri, United States, that broadcasts a country music format. Established in 1973, the station is owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. KJEL is a full servi ...

, and KIIK, to GoodRadio.TV, LLC on May 9, 2007. On September 10, 2007, the licenses for all six stations were further assigned to the current owner, Waynesville/Lebanon License Co, LLC, on a pro forma basis. Gary Knehans was honored by the Waynesville City Council on September 19, 2013, for fifty years of service as a reporter with the radio station. Knehans was hired by the original owners of the radio station about half a year after it went on the air, and now serves as operations manager for KJPW/KFBD as well as two other stations. In December 2013, GoodRadio.TV and its subsidiaries merged into Digity, LLC. Effective February 25, 2016, Digity and its 124 radio stations were acquired by

for $264 million.

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