City Elk River, Minnesota Branding Bob 106 | Broadcast area Minneapolis-St. Paul | |
Slogan Minnesota's Total Country
Turn Your Knob To BOB!
My BOB Country Frequency 106.1 FM (MHz) (also on HD Radio)
106.1-2 FM KLCI-HD2
Christian radio "Hope" (HD Radio)
106.1-3 FM KLCI-HD3
'The Big Q'
Oldies (HD Radio)
106.1-4 Spanish Christian "La Nueva Vida" (HD Radio) First air date December 1974 (as WQPM-FM at 106.3) | ||
KLCI (106.1 FM, "Bob 106") is a radio station serving the northwest Minneapolis-Saint Paul area of Minnesota, United States, that broadcasts a country music format. It is licensed to suburban Elk River, Minnesota and serves the Twin Cities as a rimshot signal. Bob 106's transmitter is in Albertville, Minnesota and its studios are in Ramsey, Minnesota.
KLCI's playlist focuses on a variety of country music. The station has a playlist of country from the 1960s to the best of today, with some music from the 1950s as well. KLCI adopted the slogan "Minnesota's TOTAL Country" to promote this.
In 2006, KLCI became the radio flagship of Minnesota Lynx and Minnesota Timberwolves basketball, but lost this role with the Timberwolves starting with the 2008-09 season.
The station's nickname, "BOB 106.1", came from a former Twin Cities country station, BOB 100, which changed formats in 1997 to an all-rock format with Howard Stern in the Morning. KLCI picked up the nickname and referred to itself as "The New BOB". The station was previously known as WQPM-FM, with the same country format.
In 2007, BOB 106 signed the long-time Twin Cities morning duo of Chuck & Jon (Chuck Knapp and Jon Engen) who had been the number two morning show in the Twin Cities area at KTIS-FM.
Chuck Knapp retired in 2013, replaced by Neil Freeman who continued the Morning Show with Jon Engen. Jon Engen left the Morning Show in October 2014.
KLCI has a sister station, KDDG FM 105.5 in Albany, Minnesota.
BOB 106 has an agreement with WCCO radio that if Gophers are on at the same time as Minnesota Wild then BOB 106 broadcasts the Wild games.