Branding KBEK 95.5 FM First air date May 12, 1995 | Frequency 95.5 MHz | |
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City Broadcast: Mora, Minnesota Studio: Braham, Minnesota Broadcast area East Central Minnesota; Northwest Wisconsin Slogan "The Voice of East Central Minnesota" "Live and Local" | ||
KBEK (95.5 FM) is a radio station licensed in Mora, Minnesota, and serving all of East Central Minnesota. The station is owned by Genesis Technology Communication, LLC. It airs a music format of and eclectic mix of music with a specialty show every night of the week. All hosted by personalities who live in the station's broadcast area.
The station was assigned the KBEK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on September 20, 1989, and was granted its License to Cover on May 22, 1995. It was formerly licensed to John Godfrey, Ms. McKinney's late husband, who died of cancer in 2004.
Due to economic factors, KBEK went up for sale in September 2011. It originally announced that it would close on September 30, 2011 (which was subsequently pushed to December 31, 2011) before McKinney announced on December 22 that KBEK had been sold and will remain on the air.
KBEK went off the air April 1, 2014.
KBEK turned its transmitter back on October 26, 2014 and resumed regular broadcasting shortly there after.