KFOO

KFOO

City	Centralia, Washington
Broadcast area	Olympia and Tacoma, Washington
Branding	ALT 102.9
Slogan	Tacoma's Rock Alternative
Frequency	102.9 MHz FM (also on HD Radio) 102.9-2 FM-iHeartRadio's "The Classic Rock Channel"
First air date	1980 (as KELA)
Format	Alternative rock
ERP	70,000 watts
HAAT	668 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	33829
Transmitter coordinates	46°58′31″N 123°08′16″W / 46.97528°N 123.13778°W / 46.97528; -123.13778
Callsign meaning	nod to locally-founded band FOO Fighters
Former callsigns	KELA (1980-1983) KELA-FM (1/1983-2/1983) KMNT (1983-2005) KNBQ (2005-2013) KYNW (2013-2016)
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations	KBKS-FM, KHHO, KJR, KJR-FM, KPWK, KUBE
Webcast	Listen Live HD2: Listen Live
Website	alt1029.com

KFOO (102.9 FM) is an alternative rock-formatted radio station serving the Tacoma and Olympia, Washington area. The station is licensed to Centralia, Washington, and the transmitter site is in Capitol State Forest near Olympia, while its studios are located in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle.

History

This station signed on in 1980 as KELA with a country music format. In 1983, the station changed its callsign to KELA-FM, but only held this callsign for less than a month before the calls changed to KMNT. The country music format and KMNT calls were moved to 104.3 FM in 2005. A new country station would be launched after the move; 102.9 would acquire the KNBQ call letters and would be branded as "Q Country 102.9".

In the 1980s, the call letters KNBQ were on 97.3 (now KIRO-FM), which at the time broadcast a top-40 format and served Tacoma and the South Sound. Famous DJs included Ric Hansen mid-days and Beau "Rockin'" Roberts at night.

On November 4, 2011, at 7 AM, KNBQ started simulcasting sports talk station KJR, becoming "Sports Radio 950 and 102.9 KJR".^[1]^[2] The station's calls were not changed because its sister station KJR-FM, located on 95.7 FM, already has them. This is a similar move made by KFRC-FM/San Francisco, WCFS-FM/Chicago, and WSBB-FM/Atlanta after those stations began simulcasting KCBS, WBBM and WSB (respectively) due to their sister stations owning the same calls with the -FM suffix having a different format from the AM counterpart and did not want to transfer them over.

On June 14, 2013, at 10 AM, KNBQ flipped to Adult Top 40 as "102.9 Now," targeting Olympia and the South Sound region. The first song on "Now" was "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga.^[3] The KJR simulcast moved to KJR-FM HD-2. On June 19, 2013, the station took the KYNW call sign. It is noted that both this station and Dallas/Fort Worth area sister station KDMX shared the same branding and logo. Although KDMX flipped to Adult Top 40 in 2012, it was unsuccessful as it reverted to its Hot AC format. Most of the station's airstaff consisted of voicetracked and syndicated shows from Johnjay & Rich (from sister KZZP/Phoenix), On-Air with Ryan Seacrest, Mario Lopez and "The Rendevouz" with Simon Marcel and Kim Iverson. Lori Bradley was the station's only local host, hosting middays from 10am-2pm.

On January 13, 2016, KYNW announced they will be changing formats on January 19 at Noon, and began redirecting listeners to sister station KBKS.^[4] At that time, after playing "Hello" by Adele and the first minute of "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic, KYNW's format moved to KBKS (and was modified to a more broad-based Hot AC), with KYNW flipping to alternative rock as "ALT 102.9." The first song on "ALT" was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.^[5] The move was part of a format shuffle on four of iheart's Seattle stations, with KBKS's Mainstream Top 40 format moving to 93.3 FM, displacing KUBE's longtime Rhythmic Top 40 format, which would move to KKBW. KKBW's active rock format would be modified to alternative and move to KYNW.^[6] On February 5, 2016, KYNW changed call letters to KFOO to match (a nod to locally-founded band Foo Fighters).

HD radio

102.9 HD1 carries the analog format from the standard 102.9 FM frequency.
102.9 HD2 airs Classic Rock.^[7]

Former logos

References

External links

ALT1029.com

Query the FCC's FM station database for KFOO

Radio-Locator information on KFOO

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KFOO

Radio stations in the Seattle–Tacoma market

by AM frequency	530¹ 570 630 710 770 820 850 880 950 1000 1050 1090 1150 1180 1210 1230 1250 1300 1330 1360 1380 1400 1420 1450 1460 1490 1520 1540 1560 1590 1620 1680

by FM frequency	88.5 88.9 89.5 89.9 90.1 90.3 90.7 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.5 97.3 97.7 98.1 98.9 99.9 100.7 101.5 102.5 102.9 103.7 104.1 104.5 104.9 105.3 106.1 106.9 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425 162.475 162.55

by callsign	KARR KASB KBCS KBKS-FM KBLE KBRO KCIS KCMS KDDS-FM KEXP-FM KFNQ KFOO KGHP KGNW KGRG KGRG-FM KHB60 KHHO KHTP KING-FM KIRO KIRO-FM KISW KITZ KNCL518 KLFE KIXI KJAQ KJR KJR-FM KKDZ KKMO KKNW KKOL KKWF KKXA KLAY KLSW KMIA KMIH KMPS KNDD KNHC KNTS KOMO KOMO-FM KNKX KPLZ-FM KPWK KQMV KRIZ KRKO KRWM KSER KSUH KTTH KUBE KUOW-FM KUPS KVI KVRQ KVTI KWYZ KXPA KXXO KYFQ KYIZ KZIZ KZOK-FM WWG24 WXM62

¹ Travelers' information station for WSDOT Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 221 Sirius Channel 156 Nearby radio markets Northwest Washington Portland Vancouver, BC Victoria & Mid Island Wenatchee Yakima See also List of radio stations in Washington

Modern rock radio stations in the state of Washington

By frequency	88.1 94.7 98.9 102.9 104.3 107.7 1330

By callsign	KFOO KGRG KHTR KNDD KNRK KTCV KVRQ

By city	Camas Centralia Enumclaw Kennewick Pullman Seattle (KNDD) Seattle (KVRQ)

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Washington See also active rock classic rock mainstream rock modern rock

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