Bonneville International Corporation, managed by
Deseret Management CorporationThe Deseret Management Corporation is a for-profit management company of assets for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was established in 1966 by then church president Gordon B...
, is a
broadcastingBroadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults....
company wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church). It began as a radio and TV network in the Triad Center Broadcast House in
Salt Lake City, UtahSalt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. Salt Lake City has a population of 181,698 as of July 1, 2008, making it the 125th largest city in the United States...
, Bonneville's name alludes to
Benjamin BonnevilleBenjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West...
and the prehistoric
Lake BonnevilleLake Bonneville was a prehistoric pluvial lake that covered much of North America's Great Basin region. Most of the territory it covered was in present-day Utah, though parts of the lake extended into present-day Idaho and Nevada. Formed about 32,000 years ago, it existed until about 16,800 years...
that once covered much of modern-day
UtahUtah is a western state of the United States. It was the 45th state admitted to the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80 percent of Utah's 2,736,424 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering around Salt Lake City. In contrast, vast expanses of the state are nearly uninhabited, making...
, which was named after him.
Bonneville owns about 30
radioRadio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
stations and one NBC affiliate
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
station.
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Salt Lake City, UtahSalt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. Salt Lake City has a population of 181,698 as of July 1, 2008, making it the 125th largest city in the United States...
- 100.3 KSFI
KSFI is a radio station operating at frequency 100.3 FM in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The station has had only two owners. The original call letters were KSL-FM when the station began broadasting in 1947 as the sister station of KSL-AM. "FM 100" was a pioneer of Bonneville's "beautiful music"...
(FM)
- 102.7 KSL
KSL Newsradio is a radio programming service based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is broadcast simultaneously on AM station KSL and FM station KSL-FM . Both stations are owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
(FM)
- 103.5 KRSP
KRSP-FM is a radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is owned by Bonneville International, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corp, the for-profit arm of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
(FM)
- 1160 KSL
KSL Newsradio is a radio programming service based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is broadcast simultaneously on AM station KSL and FM station KSL-FM . Both stations are owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
(AM)
- 5 KSL-TV
KSL-TV is an NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah that broadcasts locally in digital on UHF channel 38, and brands itself as "Channel 5." A large translator network extends coverage throughout the state and...
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St Louis, Missouri
92.3 WIL-FM WIL-FM is a 99 kilowatt radio station in St. Louis, Missouri. The station serves the St. Louis metropolitan area. Bonneville International is the station licensee, authorized by the Federal Communications Commission. Its transmitter is located in St. Louis.-Format:WIL-FM plays a variety of...
101.1 WMVNWXOS is a commercial radio station located in Creve Coeur, Missouri, broadcasting to the Greater St. Louis area. WXOS previously aired a hot AC/rhythmic contemporary music format , but on October 10, 2008, it switched to an all Christmas music station as a prelude to transitioning to all-sports...
(FM)
106.5 WARHWARH is a radio station in Granite City, Illinois. WARH serves the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area.WARH plays an Adult Hits format as "106.5 The Arch - It's all about the variety". The format is quite similar to the Jack FM stations in the U.S. & Canada...
(FM)
1430 KZQZ |
Chicago, Illinois
97.1 WDRVWDRV is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois. The station is currently owned by Bonneville International, and simulcasts on WWDV . "The Drive" programs a broad-based classic rock format called "Timeless Rock"...
(FM) / 96.9 WWDVWWDV is a radio station in Zion, Illinois, known as "The Drive". The station is currently owned by Bonneville International, and simulcasts with WDRV...
(FM)
100.3 WILVWILV is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Chicago, Illinois, USA, the station serves the Chicago area. The station is currently owned by Bonneville International. The station is also broadcast on HD radio....
(FM)
101.9 WTMXWTMX is an adult top 40 radio station licensed to Skokie, IL in the Chicagoland market. It is owned by Bonneville International....
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Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
103.5 WTOP-FM
103.9 WTLP
107.7 WWWT
1050 WTOP (AM)
1500 WFED
820 WWFD |
Phoenix, ArizonaPhoenix is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the fifth most populous city in the United States...
98.7 KPKXKPKX is a commercial Adult Hits music radio station in Phoenix, Arizona, broadcasting on 98.7 FM.-KBBC:Originally, 98.7 FM was KBBC broadcasting Easy Listening music programming.-KKLT:...
(FM)
92.3 KTAR-FMKTAR-FM is a talk radio station in Phoenix, Arizona. KTAR-FM, which is operated at 92.3 MHz in the FM band, is owned by Bonneville Holding Company...
620 KTAR (AM)KTAR is the callsign for a radio station in Phoenix, Arizona. It airs programming from ESPN Radio, in addition to KTAR-acquired broadcast rights for local teams...
860 KMVPKMVP is the callsign for a radio station in Phoenix, Arizona. It airs programming from Radio Vida Abundante. KMVP is owned by Bonneville International Corporation.-History:...
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Seattle, WashingtonWashington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the...
710 KIRO (AM)KIRO is a radio station based in Seattle, Washington on the shores of Lake Union with 2 towers on Vashon Island, broadcasting on 710 kHz in the AM radio spectrum. Its format is primarily sports radio...
770 KTTHKTTH is a conservative talk radio station, owned by Bonneville International, broadcasting at 770 kHz in Seattle, Washington.-Programming:The station runs syndicated programming, as well as the popular local afternoon program "The David Boze Show"...
(AM)
97.3 KIRO-FM |
Cincinnati, OhioCincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. The municipality is located north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border. The population within city limits was estimated to be 333,336 in 2008, making it the state's third largest city...
94.9 WREW (FM)
97.3 WYGYWYGY is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to the suburb of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, it serves the Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in 1993 under the call sign WAAR. The station is currently owned by Bonneville International...
(FM)
101.9 WKRQWKRQ, known on-air as Q102, is a radio station located in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area and broadcasts at 101.9 FM. Its transmitter is located in Cincinnati. It carries an adult-oriented CHR format and was owned by CBS Radio until 2006, when it was sold to Entercom...
(FM)
105.1 WUBE-FMWUBE-FM is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format. Licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, the station serves the Cincinnati area. The station is currently owned by Bonneville Holding Company. The station is also broadcast on HD radio....
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Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...
100.3 KSWD (FM) |
Bonneville International Corporation, managed by
Deseret Management CorporationThe Deseret Management Corporation is a for-profit management company of assets for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was established in 1966 by then church president Gordon B...
, is a
broadcastingBroadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals which transmit programs to an audience. The audience may be the general public or a relatively large sub-audience, such as children or young adults....
company wholly owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church). It began as a radio and TV network in the Triad Center Broadcast House in
Salt Lake City, UtahSalt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. Salt Lake City has a population of 181,698 as of July 1, 2008, making it the 125th largest city in the United States...
, Bonneville's name alludes to
Benjamin BonnevilleBenjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was a French-born officer in the United States Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West...
and the prehistoric
Lake BonnevilleLake Bonneville was a prehistoric pluvial lake that covered much of North America's Great Basin region. Most of the territory it covered was in present-day Utah, though parts of the lake extended into present-day Idaho and Nevada. Formed about 32,000 years ago, it existed until about 16,800 years...
that once covered much of modern-day
UtahUtah is a western state of the United States. It was the 45th state admitted to the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80 percent of Utah's 2,736,424 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering around Salt Lake City. In contrast, vast expanses of the state are nearly uninhabited, making...
, which was named after him.
Bonneville owns about 30
radioRadio is the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
stations and one NBC affiliate
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
station. Additionally, the Bonneville Communications division provides broadcast distribution services and PSA production services to
non-profit organizationA nonprofit organization is an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals . Examples of NPOs include charities , trade unions, and public arts organizations...
s.
History
Bonneville International was formed with approval of the LDS
First PresidencyIn the Latter Day Saint movement, the First Presidency was the highest governing body in the Latter Day Saint church established by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1832, and is the highest governing body of several modern Latter Day Saint denominations...
in 1964. Consolidating
KSL (AM)KSL Newsradio is a radio programming service based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is broadcast simultaneously on AM station KSL and FM station KSL-FM . Both stations are owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
,
KSL-TVKSL-TV is an NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah that broadcasts locally in digital on UHF channel 38, and brands itself as "Channel 5." A large translator network extends coverage throughout the state and...
, and other broadcast assets, the company purchased Seattle,
WashingtonWashington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute. It was admitted to the Union as the...
radio and TV stations that year, including
KIRO (AM)KIRO is a radio station based in Seattle, Washington on the shores of Lake Union with 2 towers on Vashon Island, broadcasting on 710 kHz in the AM radio spectrum. Its format is primarily sports radio...
. The LDS Church divested itself of these stations in 1997 and reacquired all of them except
KIRO-TVKIRO-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Seattle, Washington. It broadcasts on digital channel 39. The station's offices and broadcasting center are located near Seattle Center in the Denny Regrade neighborhood, and its transmitter is located on Queen Anne Hill, Seattle, Washington...
10 years later.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300350_radioswap19.html The company has also owned stations in
New York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...
,
DallasDallas , with a population of 1,279,910, is the third-largest city in Texas and the 8th-largest in the United States. The city is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area that according to the March 2009 U.S. Census Bureau release, had a population of...
,
Kansas CityKansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is one of two county seats of Jackson County, the other being Independence, just to the city's east...
, and
Los AngelesLos Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California...
at one point.
In 1980 it formed Bonneville
communications satellitesIn the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
Corporation, primarily to broadcast LDS General Conferences.
Bonneville prided itself on "values-oriented programming" and community involvement, in line with first president Arch L. Madsen's vision of the company's mission. According to Bonneville International's website, their values reflect an understanding that "families are the basic unit of society...and that strong families build strong communities."
Due to an FCC media cross-ownership rule, Bonneville was unable to purchase additional media outlets in Salt Lake City beyond its existing television and radio station (
KSL-TVKSL-TV is an NBC affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah that broadcasts locally in digital on UHF channel 38, and brands itself as "Channel 5." A large translator network extends coverage throughout the state and...
and
KSL RadioKSL Newsradio is a radio programming service based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is broadcast simultaneously on AM station KSL and FM station KSL-FM . Both stations are owned by Bonneville International Corporation, which is in turn owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
). In anticipation of a rule change, Bonneville purchased four additional Salt Lake radio stations in 2002. The FCC did not grant approval for this purchase until 2003, upon which the stations were acquired by Bonneville. The status of this deal is still uncertain -- the FCC has only granted a waiver to Bonneville, and a recent court ruling has put the FCC cross-ownership rule changes into question.
On October 4, 2004, Bonneville International announced plans to buy three stations from Emmis Communications in the
Phoenix, ArizonaPhoenix is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the fifth most populous city in the United States...
market, in exchange for WLUP "The Loop" in Chicago and cash.
On January 4, 2006, Bonneville and
The Washington PostThe Washington Post is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Washington, D.C. and is the city's oldest paper, founded in 1877. Being located in the nation's capital, it has a particular emphasis on national politics and international affairs...
announced that the frequencies currently used by WTOP, 1500 kHz AM and 107.7 MHz FM, would be reassigned to a new station, "Washington Post Radio." WTOP would move to 103.5 MHz, the frequencies currently used by classical music station WGMS, which in turn would move to 104.1 and 103.9 MHz, the frequencies used by WWZZ, which would be closed.
WGMS itself would fall silent a little more than a year later, on January 22, 2007. In its place is 70's-80's-adult-hits-station WXGG ("George 104"). Simultaneously, public radio station WETA-FM dropped its news/talk format in order to revive its previous classical format, via a partnership with Bonneville. WETA would also receive WGMS' entire music library, hired WGMS' last program director, and also retained the usage of the WGMS call sign. George 104 would last less than four months, when in April of 2007, it was announced that the 104.1 frequency would be LMA'd to Radio One. On April 7, 2007 the frequency would flip to a Gospel and Inspiration format, known as
Praise 104.1WPRS-FM, known on air as Praise 104.1, is an Urban Gospel radio station in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The station broadcasts from Waldorf, Maryland, at 104.1 MHz....
.
The Washington Post Radio experiment ended in September 2007, as the three stations
(including the powerful AM 1500 signal) became WWWT, or "3WT". Hosts include
syndicated hosts from the Right (Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz) and Left
(Stephanie Miller) as well as
Nationals baseballThe Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals are a member of the Eastern Division of the National League of Major League Baseball . The team moved into the newly-built Nationals Park in 2008, after playing their first three seasons in RFK...
. The station's morning show will continue.
Rush LimbaughRush Hudson Limbaugh III is an American radio host and conservative political commentator. Limbaugh rose to prominence during the 1990s as host of a nationally-syndicated talk-radio show, The Rush Limbaugh Show...
once worked for Bonneville Communications, after his stint with the
Kansas City RoyalsThe Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...
.
CBS RadioCBS Radio Inc., formerly known as Infinity Broadcasting Corporation, is one of the largest owners and operators of radio stations in the United States, fourth behind main rival Clear Channel Communications , Cumulus Media and Citadel Broadcasting...
has announced that it would sell 50 radio stations in 12 markets to focus on major market stations. As of September 22, 2008, Bonneville is one of the seven candidates to make first-round bids.
On August 12, 2009;
Citadel BroadcastingCitadel Broadcasting Corporation is a Las Vegas, Nevada-based broadcast holding company. Investment house Forstmann Little & Company owns 27% of Citadel and is its largest shareholder....
has rumored that they're planning to sell the former
DisneyThe Walt Disney Company , often simply known as Disney, is the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world, known for its family-friendly products...
/
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...
's 23 stations to reduce its debt load, however several financial factors may put the deal at risk. While not all the stations can be sold off, Bonneville has expressed interest in 2 FM stations in Washington D.C. (
WJZWWVRX is a classic rock music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Woodbridge, Virginia, serving the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. WVRX is owned and operated by Citadel Broadcasting.-History:...
and WQRX).
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