KRNB

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KRNB

City of license	Decatur, Texas
Broadcast area	Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex/Decatur/Bowie/ Gainesville/Jacksboro/Weatherford
Branding	Smooth R&B 105.7
Frequency	105.7 MHz
First air date	1996
Format	Urban adult contemporary
ERP	93,000 watts
HAAT	576 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	9747
Callsign meaning	K Rhythm aNd Blues
Owner	Service Broadcasting Corporation
Sister stations	KKDA-AM, FM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	krnb.com

KRNB (105.7 MHz) is an urban adult contemporary-formatted radio station in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned by Service Broadcasting Corporation alongside its sister stations KKDA-AM-FM. Its studios are located in Grand Prairie, Texas.

History

The first KRNB logo used 1996-2003.

KRNB was first launched in 1996 with an Urban Adult Contemporary format playing R&B music, hence the call sign. (Coincidentally, it is the western reflection of an R&B station in Philadelphia called WRNB.) At the time its only other competitor for the rest of the decade was KRBV, which went off the air as an R&B station in 1999 due to a transmitter problem that caused low ratings. In the early years of the station, it was home to The Tom Joyner Morning Show until 2002 when its new competitor KSOC-FM took over the affiliation to the show. (This marked the second station Tom Joyner DJ'ed in the Metroplex as he worked at KKDA-FM before.)

After KRBV changed formats, KRNB was the sole Urban AC for two years, but due to its transmitter location, it was easier to pick up in the northern and western portions of the Metroplex but harder to pick up in the Southern and Eastern portions, especially in the southern half of Dallas and downtown Dallas. Then it got new competition: KSOC changed formats from a Jammin' Oldies station to an Urban AC. So KRNB modified its format to an R&B Oldies format by playing only R&B music from the 1970s to the 1980s, and changed its branding from 105.7 KRNB to Old School 105.7 (pronounced 5-dot-7). The modification did not last long; KRNB reverted to Urban AC in 2005, changed the name back to 105.7 KR&B ("&" in place of "N") and became the home of The Steve Harvey Morning Show through Premiere Radio Networks, a division of Clear Channel. (Before that, Harvey used to have a morning show on KBFB by syndicate of sister station KKBT in Los Angeles.) Like many Urban AC stations across the country, KRNB has a nighttime Quiet Storm show. In 2010, KRNB has rebranded to "Smooth R&B 105.7" while keeping its current format. Typically, an Urban AC station doesn't play a rap song in their playlists. However, KRNB has added very few R&B-influenced rap tracks such as "The Way You Move" (featuring Sleepy Brown) by Outkast, "How Do U Want It" (featuring K-Ci & JoJo) by Tupac Shakur, and "Big Poppa" by The Notorious B.I.G.^[1]

KR&B 105.7 logo used from 2005 to 2010.

In addition to Steve Harvey, KRNB's current on-air personalities include KJ Midday, Sean Andre, Tony Mathis and Ron Chavis, and Lynne Haze.

References

↑ KRNB On-Air Playlist (accessed January 15, 2011)

External links

KRNB official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for KRNB

Radio-Locator information on KRNB

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NOAA WX Radio frequency	162.400 (Dallas) 162.525 (Corsicana) 162.525 (Mineral Wells) 162.550 (Fort Worth)

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Coordinates: 33°23′13″N 97°33′58″W / 33.387°N 97.566°W / 33.387; -97.566

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