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KSGF 1260 Springfield seriously damaged in yesterday's storms

K

Kent

Yesterday morning, a tornadic storm went through the Springfield area and severely damaged two of the three KSGF 1260 towers located just north of I-44 at the Kansas Expressway/MO-13 exit. Too soon for word on what SummitMedia's plans are, but I'd be surprised if the two towers are rebuilt. 1260 was the longtime home of KGBX that sat off-the-air for several years in the 80's before being sold in a cash/swap deal with KTTS for 1400.

KWPQ-LP 103.3 was also damaged in the storms.
 
The Missouri Media page on Facebook has a couple of photos.

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That's probably the end, or at least a downgrade to class D.

KGBX (as I think of it) was a great station for news and community service up through the early 1980s. Stauffer out of Topeka bought it, thinking that it could replicate the WIBW formula for success, substituting adult-contemporary music for country music, given that KTTS had the country-music market locked up. In those days, Springfield was a great news market: KGBX and KTTS competed hard. I got to know Ernest DeCamp (ND at KGBX) somewhat and found him to be a solid journalist, one of the best. He later became the spokesman for the Springfield city utilities.

Unfortunately, Stauffer's concept for KGBX stumbled, because Springfield was such a strong country-music market and the Great Empire formula seemed tailor-made for that kind of market.
 
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