Branding B92.7 Frequency 92.7 MHz | Slogan 90s to Now | |
City Breckenridge, Minnesota Broadcast area Wahpeton, North Dakota/Breckenridge, Minnesota First air date 1984 (as KDDR-FM at 92.3) | ||
KBMW-FM (92.7 FM) is an American radio station that airs an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Breckenridge, Minnesota, it serves Wahpeton-Breckenridge and the southern Red River Valley. The station is owned by Brooke Ingstad's Radio Wahpeton Breckenridge, LLC. James Ingstad (dba Radio Fargo-Moorhead, Inc.), the father of Brooke Ingstad, owns several radio stations in the Fargo market.
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From Oakes to Fargo
The station began life in 1984 as KDDR-FM on 92.3 FM in Oakes, North Dakota. In 1992, the station moved to 92.7 FM, and changed its city of license to Kindred, North Dakota to serve the nearby Fargo-Moorhead area, and changed the call sign to KSSZ-FM to reflect its change to a contemporary hit radio format as "92.7 Kiss FM". KSSZ changed to a contemporary Christian music format as "Power 92", and changed its call sign to KPHT in 1995.
The station became KULW with an oldies format as "Kool 92.7" in 1999, and sold to Clear Channel Communications in 2000. In 2001, it changed to "B93" with a country music format, with the call sign KFAB-FM. B93 moved towards a classic country format and changed its name to "Outlaw Country" in 2003. KFAB-FM became Fargo's Adult Hits outlet (also known as "Jack") with the "My FM" moniker. The format only lasted five months from May to October in 2005 before reverting to its previous format as "Outlaw Country".
KFAB-FM's owner at the time, Clear Channel Communications, sold its Fargo stations to James Ingstad's Radio Fargo-Moorhead, Inc. on January 19, 2007. KFAB-FM was transferred to Northwestern College, for WDAY-FM's use of KFNW-FM's tower. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership limit of the Fargo market was six stations, though at the time Clear Channel grandfathered KDAM, the seventh station.
KFAB-FM signed off the air on January 19, 2007, transitioning ownership from Clear Channel Communications (now Radio Fargo-Moorhead, Inc.) to Northwestern College, and signed on as KFNL "Legacy 92.7" with an adult standards format on February 5, 2007. Since then, it has switched to an adult contemporary Christian format concentrating on praise and worship music.
In March 2012, Northwestern College sold KFNL to Robert Ingstad's Mediactive, LCC. The station changed to active rock as "92.7 The Bone" on March 29, 2012, competing against KQWB-FM "Q98" (then owned by Triad Broadcasting).
On February 28, 2013, KFNL went silent. The station changed its call sign on September 3, 2013 to KZDR and, on September 6, it came back on air playing all-Taylor Swift as Taylor 92.7. 5 days later, on the 11th, KZDR introduced a Classic Hits format as 92.7 The Drive, promoting themselves as "Fargo's Greatest Hits". This was in conjunction of a major 2013 radio shuffle in Fargo-Moorehead that involved 5 stations changing formats.
Move to Breckenridge, MN
On February 23, 2016, it was announced that Rob Ingstad would sell KZDR to Brooke Ingstad's Radio Wahpeton-Breckenridge, and move the station to Breckenridge, Minnesota. As part of the deal, 92.7 would also downgrade to a Class A FM and transmit from the tower of its new AM sister, KBMW, which itself was recently acquired from Brooke's father, Jim Ingstad. The sale was priced at $275,000.
On June 1, 2016 at Midnight after playing The Loadout/Stay by Jackson Browne, KZDR began simulcasting its new sister station KEGK, ending "The Drive" format. On August 9th at 2pm KZDR signed off for the last time from Fargo. A little over a week later, it relaunched as an adult contemporary format branded as "B92.7", from its new studios in Wahpeton. KZDR officially changed its call letters to KBMW-FM on August 22.