KOBB-FM (93.7

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) is a

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licensed to serve

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, United States. The station's license is held by Desert Mountain Broadcasting Licenses LLC. KOBB-FM shares a transmitter site with

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and

KBOZ-FM KBOZ-FM (99.9 MHz, "99.9 K-Bear") is a radio station licensed to Bozeman, Montana, 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 ...

, east of the studios on Johnson Road and Fowler Lane.

, KOZB, and KOBB-FM all have CPs to move to a new shared transmitter site on top of Green Mountain, along I-90 east of Bozeman. In 1984, it aired a Top-40 music format, competing against KCDQ. A few decades later when it became KOBB-FM, it began airing an

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music format. The station derives most of its programming from

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. , KOBB-FM was the only station in Montana to carry The True Oldies Channel. The station was assigned the KOBB-FM call sign by the

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on April 11,

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. Before oldies, the station carried a

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format as "The Kat". On June 3, 2018, KOBB-FM and its sister stations went off the air. Effective December 6, 2019, the licenses for KOBB-FM and its sister stations were involuntary assigned from Reier Broadcasting Company 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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KOBB-FM programming is also carried on a

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OBB-FM Gallatin County, Montana Radio stations established in 1980 1980 establishments in Montana Classic hits radio stations in the United States {{Montana-radio-station-stub