KCBC-FM

KCBC-FM

Des Moines, Iowa
Frequency	94.1 MHz
Branding	KCBC 94
Programming
Format	Defunct (was easy listening)
Ownership
Owner	Capital City Broadcasting Company
History
First air date	1949
Last air date	1952 (1952)
Technical information
ERP	10,000 watts

KCBC-FM (94.1 FM, "KCBC 94") was a radio station in Des Moines, Iowa, from 1949 to 1952. Its studios were located at 2323 Grand Avenue on the near west side of Des Moines. The original transmitter and tower were also located on the property until 1950. In 1950, KCBC purchased the former WHO-FM transmitter and tower on top of the Equitable Building at 6th and Locust in downtown Des Moines.

Format

The format that KCBC-FM adopted was an easy listening format that was targeted at people riding the city's buses. At the rear of KCBC's Grand Avenue property there was a barn where they installed FM receivers in the city's buses. The plan to target music and advertisements to the city's bus riders was not a profitable one, and after just four years, KCBC-FM left the air, donating their transmitter to the Des Moines Public Schools. The school district used the transmitter to put KDPS on air the same year on 88.1 FM. After KCBC-FM's license was deleted on December 9, 1952, no other station in Des Moines used the 94.1 frequency until 2005, when a low-powered radio station from Grand View University, KGVC-LP, signed on, which later shared frequency with KDRA-LP.

References

• The history of KCBC from DesMoinesBroadcasting.com. Accessed June 23, 2006.