KUCB-FM (Iowa)

KUCB-FM
Frequency89.3 MHz
Programming
FormatCommunity/variety
Ownership
OwnerCenter for the Study and Application of Black Economic Development[1]
History
First air date
August 1, 1981[2]
Last air date
July 1998[3]
Call sign meaning
Urban Community Broadcasting[4]
Technical information
Facility ID14680
ClassC3[1]
ERP9,500 watts[1]
HAAT50 m (160 ft)[1]
Transmitter coordinates
41°35′35″N 93°37′48″W / 41.59306°N 93.63000°W / 41.59306; -93.63000[1]

KUCB-FM was a radio station broadcasting on 89.3 FM in Des Moines, Iowa. The station aired programming aimed at the African American community in central Iowa. The station was on air from 1981 until 1998; its license renewal was successfully challenged in a seven-year legal battle that dragged on for most of the 1990s over an unauthorized two-year silence period and the illegal presence of a convicted felon as an officer of the station's licensee. A new minority station, KJMC, went on the air in 1999 as a result of a competing application to the license renewal.

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