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KBST-FM

Big Spring, Texas
Frequency	95.7 MHz
Branding	K-Best 95.7
Programming
Format	Country
Ownership
Owner	Kbest Media, LLC
Sister stations	KBST, KBTS
History
First air date	1961 (1961)
Former call signs	KWKI, KWKI-FM
Call sign meaning	Big Spring, Texas
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	33685
Class	C2
ERP	33,000 watts
HAAT	140 meters (460 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	32°13′13″N 101°26′25″W / 32.22028°N 101.44028°W / 32.22028; -101.44028
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website

KBST-FM (95.7 FM, "K-Best 95.7") is a radio station licensed to serve Big Spring, Texas. The station is owned by Kbest Media, LLC. It airs a country music format. The morning show is simulcast on KBST AM, Suddenlink Cable Channel 2, Antenna Receiver Channel 99, Stanton Cable Channel 10, and kbst.com.

The station was assigned the KBST-FM call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on March 17, 1989.

The station began in 1961 as independently owned KFNE (K-Fine) on 95.3 MHz. The studios and transmitter were in a downtown building. Longtime Texas broadcaster John B. Walton, Jr. had a one-third ownership interest in the 1960s until the station was sold to crosstown 1270 KHEM (AM) (now deleted). The transmitter was moved to the nearby hill above Big Spring.

References

1. ^ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
2. "Facility Technical Data for KBST-FM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
3. "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on March 1, 2010.

External links

• Facility details for Facility ID 33685 (KBST-FM) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KBST-FM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

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