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KTBG (90.9 FM) is a listener supported radio station in Kansas City, Missouri. The station is currently owned by Public Television 19, Inc., the holding company for the area's PBS member television station, KCPT. Known as "The Bridge," it airs an adult album alternative format. The sale of KTBG to PT19 was announced in April 2013, and after FCC approval, the actual transfer occurred Tuesday, December 17, 2013 immediately after KTBG’s 7pm broadcast of “All Things Considered.”(News Release, December 18, 2013 ) The station's programming can also be heard on a low-powered translator on 104.9 FM in Osage Beach. ==History== KTBG signed on in the early 1980s as KCMW, airing National Public Radio and jazz programming under the ownership of the University of Central Missouri. In August 2001, the station adopted its current call letters and switched to the current format. The first song after NPR's Morning Edition was "Some Bridges" by Jackson Browne. Despite its 97,000-watt signal, KTBG only provides grade B coverage of Kansas City itself, and is marginal at best on the Kansas side of the market. It operates from a 443-foot tower on the Johnson/Lafayette County line. However, the station has applied for a construction permit for a directional 1,165-foot tower in Lafayette County. While this would reduce power to 90,000 watts, the tower would provide city-grade coverage of Kansas City itself, and grade B coverage of the Kansas side of the market. On April 18, 2013 the University of Central Missouri Board of Governors signed a letter of intent to transfer ownership of KTBG to Public Television 19, owner of KCPT.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Intention to transfer ownership of UMC's KTBG to KCPT announced today )〕 Kliff Kuehl, CEO and President of KCPT, indicated that while some changes will take place to KTBG once the transfer is approved by the FCC the station will still maintain its current music format.〔 It is anticipated that the KTBG broadcast studios will also be moved to the KCPT building in Kansas City. Internships at KTBG will still be available to UCM students, and K.〔 The KTBG transmitter site will also be moved approximately twenty miles closer to Kansas City, pending FCC approval.〔 The reported sale price for the station was $1.1 million cash, plus an additional $550,000 in "in kind" services. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KTBG」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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