KBER

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KBER-FM
City of license	Salt Lake City, Utah
Broadcast area	Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo, Utah
Branding	KBER 101
Slogan	"Utah's Rock Station"
Frequency	101.1 MHz
First air date	February 21, 1986
Format	Rock
ERP	25,000 watts
HAAT	1140 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	10779
Callsign meaning	K BEaR
Owner	Citadel Broadcasting
Sister stations	KBEE, KENZ, KFNZ, KHTB, KJQS, KKAT-FM/AM, KUBL
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	www.kber.com

KBER (101.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Album Oriented Rock format. Licensed to Ogden, Utah, USA, the station serves the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Citadel Broadcasting.^[1]

The station arrived as one of the leading FM radio stations in the market during the wild days with Cory "Porn Master" Draper, Casey "The Night Rocker" Baird, Kevin "Easy" Eason, Alan "Dr. Rock" Bain, Mark "Erection" Erickson, "Young Hung" Brandon Young, Ron Harrison, Allen "My Wife has me by the Balls" Handy, Helmut "No longer a part timer" Von Schmidt, Jamie "Hymie Escalante" Valle'e, the screaming weather man, Patrick "Skye Bleu" Burton, Michael Hayes, Nate "The Hitman" and others in the early to mid 1990's.

The Ron & Allen Morning Show was wildly popular and they even had their own television show called "Rock Utah" which aired on local channel 30. Some of the more memorable events the morning show perpetrated were the "Heterosexual Pride Parade", a wrestling match between Ron and the "Punisher" against Allen and Hymie, which raised money for the MDA, Hymie taking the morn show and some listeners skydiving, Allen and Hymie driving a top fuel dragster at Bonneville Raceway, and a hoax which had listeners believing that Allen Handy had been arrested by the Secret Service. The show was every bit as wild as anything being done at the time in the largest markets, including Howard Stern in New York City. After Ron Harrison was summarily dismissed for an on-air stunt, Allen Handy and Michael Hayes took over as "Handy & Hayes" for several months carrying on the tradition of placing within the top 1-2 stations in the 18-34 demographic within Salt Lake City's market. These were truly golden days when local talent made the grade, instead of non-local satellite broadcasts.

In the mid 90's the station was purchased by Citadel Broadcasting and morphed into "101 The Bear". The station empolyed a number of on-air talent including Uncle Nasty. Uncle Nasty's irreverent style translated into an instant following especially with Men 18-34. Uncle Nasty was on air 7pm to 12am, then moved to morning drive a year later. In 1998 the station reverted back to the more familiar "KBER 101" slogan of its earlier years and is currently a top rated mainstream rock station in Salt Lake City Utah.

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[edit] External links

• KBER official website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KBER
• Radio Locator information on KBER
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for KBER

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