KIWR

KIWR

City of license	Council Bluffs, Iowa
Broadcast area	Omaha Metro
Slogan	89.7 The River, The Cutting Edge of Rock
Frequency	89.7 MHz
Format	Alternative
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	326.0 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	29126
Transmitter coordinates	41°18′40.00″N 96°1′37.00″W / 41.3111111°N 96.0269444°W / 41.3111111; -96.0269444
Former callsigns	Iowa Western (Community College) Radio
Owner	Iowa Western Community College
Website	897theriver.com

KIWR (89.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Alternative format.^[1] Based in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA, the station serves the Omaha Metro area. The station is licensed to Iowa Western Community College.^[2] The station has broadcast alternative rock since January 1, 1996. Prior to that, it played Classical music and Jazz.

Weekday programing

The station is the home of the Morning Fiasco with Spicoli weekday mornings 6 am to 10 am, which includes features like the Uncensored Sports Break, Conjunction and School of Rock which features a guest spot with Sophia John. After the Morning Fiasco its Middays with Tom "Skinman" Skinner from 10 am to 12 pm, followed by Sophia John from 12 pm to 2 pm featuring The Nooner Monday through Thursday but on Friday Sophia has created a highly popular covers show where she plays only cover songs from Noon to 2 pm.

Weeknight and weekend programing

From 6 pm to 6 am students attending the Media Studies Program at Iowa Western Community College start their shifts. 897 The River has always been a learning tool for students attending the media studies program at IWCC.

Specialty shows

KIWR hosts several "spotlight" radio programs that are not subsets of the regular programming. This includes the 24 year old Pacific Street Blues which airs Sunday's from 9:00 am to Noon. Other specialty programming including Music with a Purpose, Planet O (local/regional music), New Day Rising, the heavy metal outlet Sunday School, Keller's Cellar and Grateful Dead hour air from the hours of 6 pm to 1 am. The Pacific Street Blues radio program was nominated for a KBA or Keeping the Blues Alive award in 2008 and its host, Rick Galusha, has been nominated to the Nebraska Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.^{[citation needed]}

Festivals

• July 30, 2006 - River Riot: 311, Dashboard Confessional*, Yellowcard, Hawthorne Heights, Blue October, The Wailers, Matchbook Romance, Say Anything, Pepper, Swizzle Tree, Agent Sparxx, Jazzwholes^[3] (Dashboard Confessional cancelled the day of the concert)

• July 21, 2007 - River Riot: Incubus, Hinder, Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Fuel, The Exies, Simon Dawes

• August 2, 2008 - River Riot: 3 Doors Down, Staind, Seether, Filter, Finger Eleven, Sick Puppies, Safety Suit

• August 14, 2009 - Rockfest: Korn, Mudvayne, Black Label Society, Static X, Suicide Silence, Bury Your Dead, Burn Halo, After Midnight Project

• August 16, 2009 - River Riot: Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Chester French, Rehab, Dirty Little Rabbits, Pomeroy

• May 14, 2010 - Rockfest: Godsmack, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Hellyeah, Papa Roach, Skillet, Halestorm, Dirtfedd

• August 14, 2010 - River Riot: Stone Temple Pilots, Weezer, Blue October, Cage the Elephant, Emphatic, Flobots, Paper Tongues, Something To Burn

• May 13, 2011 - Rockfest: Stone Sour, Seether, Hollywood Undead, 10 Years, Escape The Fate, My Darkest Days, Screaming for Silence

• September 23, 2011 - River Riot: Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Sick Puppies, Bullet for My Valentine, Escape The Fate, Sevendust, Hell Or Highwater

• May 12, 2012 - River Riot: Incubus, Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, Emphatic, After the Fall

• May 11, 2013 - Rockfest: Blue October, Trapt, Taproot, Smile Empty Soul, 10 Years, Sick Puppies, Hollywood Undead, HURT, IAMDYNAMITE

References

External links

• 89.7 The River Website
• Pacific Street Blues archive
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KIWR
• Radio-Locator information on KIWR
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KIWR