KRBB
Encyclopedia
KRBB is a radio station
operating in Wichita, Kansas
. Identifying itself as "The Best Variety of Yesterday and Today," the station runs a Adult Contemporary music format. It also broadcasts on two HD Digital channels, the first being the Adult Contemporary format and the second jazz and smooth jazz format.
(Or Beautiful Music
) as KBRA, later on evolved to Adult Contemporary around 1982, it was briefly known as "KB-98". A few years later the call letters changed to KLZS but maintained the Adult Contemporary format. Around the mid to late 80's KLZS evolved into a NAC/Smooth Jazz
format as "Magic 98" giving Wichita its first Smooth Jazz station at the time. KLZS changed ownership in 1989, it went into a stunt mode playing a variety of songs for about a week, then flipped back to its present format and a call letter change to KRBB.
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
operating in Wichita, Kansas
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...
. Identifying itself as "The Best Variety of Yesterday and Today," the station runs a Adult Contemporary music format. It also broadcasts on two HD Digital channels, the first being the Adult Contemporary format and the second jazz and smooth jazz format.
History
KRBB's format history includes Easy ListeningEasy listening
Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...
(Or Beautiful Music
Beautiful music
Beautiful music is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s...
) as KBRA, later on evolved to Adult Contemporary around 1982, it was briefly known as "KB-98". A few years later the call letters changed to KLZS but maintained the Adult Contemporary format. Around the mid to late 80's KLZS evolved into a NAC/Smooth Jazz
Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is a genre of music that grew out of jazz fusion and is influenced by R&B, funk, rock, and pop music styles ....
format as "Magic 98" giving Wichita its first Smooth Jazz station at the time. KLZS changed ownership in 1989, it went into a stunt mode playing a variety of songs for about a week, then flipped back to its present format and a call letter change to KRBB.