Talk:KFBW

History prior to Jacor's ownership

My initial attempts at web searches about the history of this station prior to the mid-1990s have been hard to make sense of. It's easy to trace the ownership to Jacor and confirm that it was broadcasting in the mid- to late-1990s, but the station's history under Citicasters is unclear.

There are hints that Citicasters may have been constructing the station when Jacor bought it, or that it may have simply owned an FCC construction permit at that time. Or possibly, the station could have been broadcasting prior to Jacor's acquisition, in which case ownership might date back to Great American communications/Broadcasting, the subsidiary of the Cincinnati insurance company that bought Taft Broadcasting in the 1980s and emerged from bankruptcy as Citicasters. If a 105.9 station was broadcasting in the 1980s, it could even date back to Taft Broadcasting itself. 68.167.253.78 (talk) 04:20, 22 March 2008 (UTC).

Nothing conclusive, but when Broadcasting magazine reported on the top-25 radio ownership groups (October 12, 1998) the acquisition of Jacor by Clear Channel was still pending, and KKLQ was shown as (CP-not on air yet) in the station list. That should at least answer part of the question ... it never broadcast as KXMX, and it is likely that it never broadcast as KKLQ either, given that those call letters were on Jacor's San Diego FM when they sold it to Heftel in 1999.

The KBET-FM calls were only in place for six months in 2000-01 (Clear Channel had an AM in the L.A. suburbs also using those calls) and KSTE-FM is shown in the FCC database as being in effect February 13, 2001 ... which is eight days after the listed "first on-air date" in the infobox.

Probably need to confirm the February 5 on-air date and rewrite the first paragraph to indicate that Jacor sold it as an unbuilt construction permit (CP) to Clear Channel, which kept it under the Jacor "Citicasters Licenses LLP" licensee name. But it never broadcast under Jacor, much less under its predecessors, from what I've been able to turn up thus far. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.196.158.105 (talk) 22:56, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

Call Letters Change to KFBW

On June 2, 2009 KQOL changed their call letters to KFBW, to go with their "Brew" branding. 24.22.0.12 (talk) 21:47, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

This article should be moved from the "KQOL" heading to a "KFBW" heading. 24.22.0.12 (talk) 16:15, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

According to the FCC's FM Database Query, the KQOL calls have relocated to 105.3 FM (new construction permit) in Sleepy Hollow, Wyoming, effective June 12, 2009. 24.22.0.12 (talk) 04:54, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Virtual Airport ICAO code

KFWB is also the ICAO 4-letter code for a virtual airport, located in California, USA. The closest real-world airport is KTNP (Twenty-Nine Palms). The KFBW virtual airport is available via a free software add-on, provided by "FlyByWire Simulations", and is installed into Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (MSFS). Other than most (all?) other airports in MSFS, that coexist in accordance with their real-world airports, KFBW only exists in the flight simulator. It is used as a showcase of the A380 project (airplane simulation9. The airport is designed to match the real-world A380 testing airports in Hamburg, Germany (EDHI). Reference: About page in "FlyByWire Simulations"-installation software. The installer can be downloaded here: https://flybywiresim.com/a32nx/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.192.196.250 (talk) 11:09, 27 May 2023 (UTC)