KYFG 88.9 FM is an
Omaha, Nebraska
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area radio station featuring Bible based programming from the Bible Broadcasting Network.
The station signed on as KNOS in 1997, and initially targeted Omaha's African American community with a wide-ranging urban format that included
gospel music
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,
jazz
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,
R&B and
hip-hop
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music, as well as talk programming. The station was sold to a Catholic group in early 1999, and flipped to religious programming.
In 2009, the then-
KVSS purchased
KBZR (102.7 FM) from Chapin Enterprises of
Lincoln
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for $4.5 million. On June 1, 2009, KVSS moved the signal from Lincoln to Gretna, renting space on a tower owned by TV station KPTM. (Jim Carroll, executive director of KVSS)
On August 24, 2009, KYFG began broadcasting programming from the Bible Broadcasting Network.
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