KRNB

KRNB

City	Decatur, Texas
Broadcast area	Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex/Decatur/Bowie/ Gainesville/Jacksboro/Weatherford
Branding	Smooth R&B 105.7
Frequency	105.7 MHz
First air date	1996
Format	Urban adult contemporary
ERP	93,000 watts
HAAT	576 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	9747
Callsign meaning	K Rhythm aNd Blues
Owner	Service Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	KKDA-FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	krnb.com

KRNB (105.7 MHz) is an urban adult contemporary-formatted radio station in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned by Service Broadcasting Corporation alongside its sister station KKDA-FM. Its studios are located in Grand Prairie, Texas and the transmitter/antenna tower is located north of its city of license, Decatur, Texas.

History

The first KRNB logo used 1996-2003.

KRNB was first launched at 6 a.m. on September 16, 1996, with an Urban Adult Contemporary format playing R&B music, hence the call sign. (Coincidentally, it is the western reflection of an R&B station in Philadelphia called WRNB.)^[1]^[2] At the time its only other competitor for the rest of the decade was KRBV, which went off the air as an R&B station in 1998 due to a transmitter problem that caused low ratings. In the early years of the station, it was home to The Tom Joyner Morning Show until 2002 when its new competitor KSOC-FM took over the affiliation to the show. (This marked the second station Tom Joyner DJ'ed in the Metroplex as he worked at KKDA-FM before.)

After KRBV changed formats, KRNB was the sole Urban AC for two years, but due to its transmitter location, it was easier to pick up in the northern and western portions of the Metroplex but harder to pick up in the Southern and Eastern portions, especially in the southern half of Dallas and downtown Dallas. Then it got new competition: KSOC changed formats from Jammin' Oldies to Urban AC. So KRNB modified its format to an R&B Oldies format by playing only R&B music from the 1970s to the 1980s, and changed its branding from 105.7 KRNB to Old School 105.7 (pronounced 5-dot-7). The modification did not last long; KRNB reverted to Urban AC in 2005, changed the name back to 105.7 KR&B ("&" in place of "N") and became the home of The Steve Harvey Morning Show through Premiere Radio Networks, a division of Clear Channel. (Before that, Harvey used to have a morning show on KBFB by syndicate of sister station KKBT in Los Angeles.) Like many Urban AC stations across the country, KRNB has a nighttime Quiet Storm show. In 2010, KRNB has rebranded to "Smooth R&B 105.7" while keeping its current format. Typically, an Urban AC station doesn't play a rap song in their playlists. However, KRNB has added very few R&B-influenced rap tracks such as "The Way You Move" (featuring Sleepy Brown) by Outkast, "How Do U Want It" (featuring K-Ci & JoJo) by Tupac Shakur, and "Big Poppa" by The Notorious B.I.G.^[3]

KR&B 105.7 logo used from 2005 to 2010.

In addition to Steve Harvey, KRNB's current on-air personalities include KJ Midday, Sean Andre, Tony Mathis and Ron Chavis, and Lynne Haze.

Since 2002, it has competed with KSOC (for a time branded as "K-Soul" from 2002 to 2011 and again in 2014; and as "Old School 94.5" from 2011 to 2014) with an Urban AC format. However, as of November 15, 2014, KSOC flipped to classic hip hop, leaving KRNB as the sole Urban AC station in the metroplex.

Former KRNB

The original KRNB-FM was a tribal run student radio station in Neah Bay, Washington. Starting in 1976 the station provided news, weather and information for the Makah Indian Tribe. Located on the high school campus it was billed as "The Native American Voice of the Pacific Northwest" and operated at 10 watts with an international reach extreme southern Vancouver Island in Canada just across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The station broadcast a wide range of formats including easy listening, contemporary 70s pop and at night album oriented rock.

References

↑ "New FM station will offer R&B". Dallas Morning News. 1995-10-22.
↑ "New station a 'smooth operator'". Dallas Morning News. 1996-09-17.
↑ KRNB On-Air Playlist (accessed January 15, 2011)

External links

KRNB official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for KRNB

Radio-Locator information on KRNB

Radio stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex market

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By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.5 88.5 88.7 89.1 89.3 89.5 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.1 92.5 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.3 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.1 99.5 100.3 100.7 101.1 101.7 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.3 103.7 104.5 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.7 106.9 107.1 107.5 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4 (Dallas) 162.525 (Corsicana) 162.525 (Mineral Wells) 162.55 (Fort Worth)

Digital radio	570 1080 1270 1700 88.5-1 89.3-1 92.5-1 92.5-2 94.1-1 94.5-1 96.3-1 96.3-2 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.5-1 97.9-1 97.9-2 98.7-1 98.7-2 98.7-3 99.5-1 99.5-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 100.3-3 101.1-1 102.1-1 102.1-2 102.9-1 102.9-2 103.7-1 103.7-2 105.3-1 105.3-2 105.3-3 106.1-1 106.1-2 107.1-1 107.5-1 107.5-2 107.5-3 107.9-1 107.9-2

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Defunct	KTDK-FM 104.1 The Indie-Verse

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 225 Sirius Channel 154 Nearby radio markets Abilene Brownwood Killeen–Temple Lawton Oklahoma City Paris Sherman–Denison Tyler–Longview Waco Wichita Falls See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ² = Daytime-only AM radio station.

Urban Contemporary Radio Stations in the state of Texas

Stations	KAZI - Austin KBFB - Dallas KCOH - Houston KIIZ-FM - Killeen KISX - Whitehouse KKDA-FM - Grand Prairie KMJQ - Houston (UAC) KNDA - Corpus Christi KQBT - Houston KRNB - Decatur (UAC) KSSM - Copperas Cove KTCX - Beaumont KWBT - Waco KXXN - Iowa Park (UAC) KZRB - New Boston

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

Coordinates: 33°23′13″N 97°33′58″W / 33.387°N 97.566°W / 33.387; -97.566

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