code kbrd see brainerd lakes regional airport . kbrd city lacey washington broadcast area olympia washington slogan the music skip likes . frequency 680 khz first air date march 7 1994 format nostalgia power 250 watts day class d facility id 26893 transmitter coordinates 47 3 44.00 n 122 49 49.00 w 47.0622222 n 122.8302778 w 47.0622222 ; 122.8302778 callsign meaning k bird named after skip s cockatoo b.j. former callsigns knte 1994 1994 kldy 1994 1995 owner bj & skip s for the music webcast listen live the website s player does not give the titles being played . if one inserts the url of the webcast in winamp that info and the audio is available . website kbrd.org kbrd 680 am is a non commercial listener supported radio station broadcasting a nostalgia format licensed to lacey washington usa . the station is currently owned by bj & skip s for the music . the foundation is a 501 c 3 organization so donations are tax deductible . it is dedicated to the preservation of the music of the first half of the 20th century . it is a daytimer station signing on at sunrise and signing off at local sunset to protect knbr in san francisco california . as of may 2014 kbrd programming can also be heard 24 hours a day on kcfl fm 89.5 in the westport aberdeen washington area . 1 contents 1 history 2 format 3 awards 4 listening online 5 references 6 external links history edit the station was assigned the call letters knte on march 7 1994 . on october 7 1994 the station changed its call sign to kldy then again on february 17 1995 to the current kbrd . 2 larry skip morrow owned an fm radio station but was interested in also owning an am station . when he purchased what was to become kbrd there wasn t enough radio equipment to go on the air . he was also interested in the kbrd call letters ; when the station was ready to go on the air they belonged to someone else so the station signed on under his ownership as kldy . when kbrd became available morrow transferred the kldy callsign to his classical am station at 1280 making 680 kbrd . 3 kbrd was named for bj morrow s moluccan cockatoo . who was the music director . if bj danced to the music it was put on kbrd s playlist . morrow ran both kbrd and his fm radio station from his living room . ten years after kbrd went on the air larry morrow died of cancer ; before his death he transferred ownership of the radio station to a foundation he created bj and skip s for the music foundation . morrow s network of friends maintain the radio station with the help of the foundation . 3 format edit although officially described as a nostalgia station kbrd plays an eclectic mixture of jazz rock swing country dixieland ragtime zydeco western swing novelty and other music much of which can be heard nowhere else in the country . a typical hour broadcast on kbrd might contain music by artie shaw aunt dinah s quilting party bessie smith boots randolph clicquot club eskimos captain stubby and the buccaneers bing crosby the harmonicats sheb wooley marty robbins jelly roll morton nat king cole the korn kobblers george formby nana mouskouri perry como merle travis louis armstrong and the ever popular hoosier hot shots . kbrd broadcasts without commercial interruption . 4 awards edit the kbrd website states that the station was named the 9th best radio station in the country by e entertainment . 3 listening online edit kbrd s am signal reaches out only about 50 miles from lacey washington only during daylight hours but kbrd is available via streaming media continuously from its website . references edit kbrd facility record . united states federal communications commission audio division . kbrd call sign history . united states federal communications commission audio division . a b c kbrd history . kbrd . retrieved 22 november 2010 . www.kbrdradio.com . external links edit official website query the fcc s am station database for kbrd radio locator information on kbrd query nielsen audio s am station database for kbrd v t e daytime only radio stations in washington stations kbrd lacey kmbi spokane komw omak krpa oak harbor ktbi ephrata see also clear channel radio stations and why am radio stations must reduce power change operations or cease operations at night retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kbrd & oldid 726702544 categories nostalgia radio stationsradio stations in washington state radio stations established in 1994lacey washington1994 establishments in washington state daytime only radio stations navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 june 2016 at 20 50 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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