KRIB

KRIB

City	Mason City, Iowa
Branding	AM 1490 KRIB
Slogan	America's Best Music
Frequency	1490 kHz C-QUAM AM stereo
Translator(s)	96.7 K244FA (Mason City)
First air date	1948
Format	Adult standards
Power	1,000 watts (unlimited)
Class	C
Facility ID	47095
Transmitter coordinates	43°08′06″N 93°12′28″W / 43.13500°N 93.20778°W / 43.13500; -93.20778
Affiliations	Westwood One
Owner	Digity, LLC (Digity 3E License, LLC)
Sister stations	KGLO, KIAI, KLSS, KYTC
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	discovernorthiowa.com

KRIB (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Mason City, Iowa. The station is owned by Digity, LLC, and licensed to Digity 3E License, LLC. It airs an Adult Standards music format. KRIB was one of the first radio stations in Iowa to play Rock and Roll in the mid-1950s and garnered all of the young audience. KRIB is also the radio station that was one of the sponsors of the Winter Dance Party at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa in February 1959 featuring The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly, which ended that evening with all three dying in a plane crash just north of the Mason City airport. The concert was M.C.'d by Bob Hale a disc jockey at KRIB at the time. KRIB still changes their music format during the week anniversary of the Winter Dance Party to play all of the hit songs of the late 1950s and early 1960s with an emphasis on the songs from February 1959.^[1]

The station was assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.^[2]

References

↑ "KRIB website". KRIB-AM.
↑ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KRIB

Radio-Locator Information on KRIB

Radio stations in the Mason City, Iowa market

By FM frequency	88.5 91.5 92.3 92.5 93.9 95.5 95.9 96.1 97.5 97.9 98.7 99.9 102.7 103.7 104.3 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.9 107.3

By AM frequency	970 1010 1300 1490 1580

By callsign	K223AB KAUS-FM KBDC KCHA KCHA-FM KCMR KGLO KIAI KIOW KJCY KKHQ-FM KLKK KLMJ KLSS-FM KNSM KNXR KOKZ KQAQ KQPR KRIB KRNI KROC-FM KSMA-FM KVGO KYBA KYTC

Nearby radio markets Austin–Albert Lea Fort Dodge Mankato–New Ulm–St. Peter Rochester Waterloo–Cedar Falls See also List of radio stations in Iowa

AM Stereo radio stations in the United States

The following 89 stations broadcast in C-QUAM AM stereo.

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