KNBS is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

Bowling Green, Missouri Bowling Green is a city and the county seat of Pike County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,334 at the 2010 census. History Bowling Green was settled in 1819, and designated county seat in 1824. Settled chiefly by migrants from K ...

and serves the western ( Westplex) suburbs of

St. Louis St. Louis ( , sometimes referred to as St. Louis City, Saint Louis or STL) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a populatio ...

. KNBS simulcasts K270BW (101.9 FM) and KLJY-HD3 (99.1 FM), airing a

conservative talk Conservative talk radio is a talk radio format in the United States and other countries devoted to expressing conservative viewpoints of issues, as opposed to progressive talk radio. The definition of conservative talk is generally broad enough ...

format known as "NewsTalkSTL". The station is owned by Epic STL, a local ownership consortium, with programming originating from its studios near Westport Plaza in Maryland Heights, Missouri.

History

KNBS was established as KPCR-FM at 100.9 MHz on August 1, 1975. It was the companion to KPCR (1530 AM) in the same town and simulcast that station and its country music format two-thirds of the time. Original owner Pike County Broadcasting, Inc., sold the KPCR stations in 1998 to Indacom, Inc., for $490,000. Indacom sold the two country outlets to Four Him, Inc., headed by Michael Fallon, in 2001 in a $725,000 transaction. KPVR and the 97.7 station at Potosi formed Joy FM, the new contemporary Christian station for St. Louis, formed after a previous commercial outlet in the city was sold and changed formats in 1998. Joy FM acquired the former KFUO-FM 99.1 in St. Louis and relaunched it as

KLJY KLJY (99.1 MHz) is a commercial-free, listener-supported FM radio station licensed to Clayton, Missouri, and serving Greater St. Louis. It is owned by Gateway Creative Broadcasting, and broadcasts a Christian Contemporary radio format known as ...

in July 2010; the original simulcast continued to air Joy FM for several more years. Boost was launched on its present signals—the former Joy FM simulcast and a St. Louis translator owned by the

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—on March 24, 2014. On November 6, 2020, Gateway announced it would acquire the facility of

WFUN-FM WFUN-FM (96.3 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. The station airs an urban adult contemporary radio format branded as "96.3 The Lou". Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station's studios are located on Olive Street in St ...

95.5 from

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, and that Boost Radio would move from KPVR, KHZR, and K270BW to said station after Gateway assumed operations on January 4, 2021. The call letters of KPVR and KHZR were changed to KNBS and KQBS, remaining with Boost Radio at that time. On August 9, 2021, KNBS flipped to a simulcast of the

"NewsTalkSTL" programming heard on K270BW/

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/ref> Operator Epic STL agreed to purchase the station outright for $200,000 in June 2023, a deal completed on October 31.

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