KBPA

KBPA
City San Marcos, Texas
Broadcast area Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area
Branding 103.5 Bob FM
Slogan "We Play Anything."
Frequency 103.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Mega 103.5 HD-2 for Dance
First air date June 1, 1971 (as KRMH at 103.7)
Format Adult Hits
HD2 Rhythmic contemporary Mega 103.5 HD2
ERP 96,000 watts
HAAT 383 meters (1,257 ft)
Class C0
Facility ID 41213
Callsign meaning K Bob Plays Anything
Former callsigns KRMH (1971-1977)
KCSW (1977-1982)
KEYI (1982-1986)
KEYI-FM (1986-2004)
Former frequencies 103.7 MHz (1971-1987)
Owner Emmis Communications
(Emmis Austin Radio Broadcasting Company, L.P.)
Sister stations KGSR, KLBJ (AM), KLBJ-FM, KLZT, KROX-FM
Webcast Bob FM Webstream
Mega 103.5 Webstream
Website 1035bobfm.com
megahd2.com (HD2)

KBPA (103.5 MHz, "103.5 Bob FM") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to San Marcos, Texas and serving the Greater Austin metropolitan area. The station is owned by Emmis Communications and uses the slogan "We play anything." Its format is adult hits, similar to other Bob FM stations across the country. Unlike some adult hits stations, KBPA uses DJs.

KBPA's transmitter is located off Jack C. Hays Trail in Buda, Texas.[1] Its studios and offices are located along Interstate 35 in North Austin. Rhythmic contemporary/Dance music can be heard on KBPA's HD-2 channel, known as 'Mega 103-5 HD-2', also streaming on the internet at http://www.megahd2.com.

History

KBPA-HD2

In 2009, KBPA brought back KXMG's former Dance Top 40 format and placed it on its HD2 channel, calling it "Mega 103-5 HD-2." In 2010 the format returned to the terrestrial broadcasting airwaves as a simulcast, broadcasting on translator K288FJ at 105.5 FM in Bastrop, Texas. In November 2010 the HD2 signal began simulcasting over the air on 102.7 (K274AX), which is licensed to Austin and can be heard within the central business area. That simulcast ended on December 13, 2010 at 12:06 AM, with the translator going silent. At around 9 AM that day K274AX switched to a simulcast of adult album alternative-formatted KGSR 93.3 FM Cedar Park, Texas.

Current on-air personnel

Former on-air personnel

See also

References

  1. http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KBPA-FM
  2. Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 pg. C-212
  3. "About Joel Block". EarthSky.

External links

Coordinates: 30°02′42″N 97°52′52″W / 30.045°N 97.881°W / 30.045; -97.881

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