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KGNN-FM Cuba turns in license

Mark Roberts

Mark Roberts

East-central Missouri broadcaster KGNN-FM in Cuba has requested cancellation of its license. The station had been silent since last June due to an antenna system failure. The station's engineer reports that, since then, there's been a whole series of problems, culminating in copper thefts last month. The engineer also noted that the land for the station's transmitter site was going to be sold next year. The FCC filing states that the board of the station's owner, Missouri River Christian Broadcasting, decided two weeks ago to turn in the license, as well as the license for an associated translator in Rolla. The license would have expired next week as a matter of law, due to being silent for a year.

Missouri River Christian Broadcasting will continue with its "Good News Voice" stations in Washington, also in east-central Missouri, and in the St. Louis suburbs of Arnold and Ballwin. The KGNN call letters were also once associated with an AM station in Cuba that was discontinued by Missouri River Christian Broadcasting sometime between 1996 and 1998.
 
There's a little bit of a historical record through newspapers in or near Crawford County, so I've been able to trace KGNN-FM back to 1996, put on the air by the present owner. KGNN(AM) appears to have been discontinued in 1997, probably fairly early in the year, with license deletion occurring in January 1998. The Missouri River Christian Broadcasting website, which doesn't appear to have been updated recently, mentions that its stations are affiliated with Moody, which is consistent with earlier newspaper accounts.

I don't know much more about Missouri River Christian and have never heard any of their stations. In the 1980s and 1990s, as reflected in newspaper articles from Washington, Mo., it appeared to be a very locally-oriented broadcaster.

When it acquired the Cuba AM is unclear. That station was originally KBCC, on the air in 1978 at 1410, as a hometown-style station serving Crawford County. A decade later, there are no more mentions of it and, by 1992, it had been acquired by Missouri River Christian. I found no mention of a transfer of control to its final owner in the worldradiohistory.com archives of Broadcasting.
 


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