KFEQ

KFEQ

City of license	Saint Joseph, Missouri
Broadcast area	Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Branding	680 KFEQ
Frequency	680 kHz
Format	News/Talk/Sports/Farm
Power	5,000 Watts
Class	B
Affiliations	Fox News Radio
Owner	Eagle Communications
Website	680kfeq.com

KFEQ 680 AM is a Saint Joseph, Missouri area talk radio station that airs local and national programs.

Local programming includes news, sports, and agricultural information.

Bob Orf is program director for KFEQ. Orf began his career at KFEQ St. Joseph in 1975. Besides overseeing programming for the station, Orf is also the Voice of the Griffons for Missouri Western State University and began his duties for Western with the football team when he first started off in 1975. Orf began commentating for the men’s basketball team in 1989 and later on, the women’s basketball teams in 1992.

Barry Birr is News Director at KFEQ. Besides his duties as News Director, Birr is also the host of The Hotline each weekday from 8 - 10am, covering topics of interest with guests and listener call-ins.

Tom Brand came to KFEQ in 1996 to serve as Farm Director for the radio station after spending 2 years at KMA (AM) radio in Shenandoah, Iowa. Brand broadcasts market updates throughout the day and is host of the Mid-Day Farm Report each weekday along with the Saturday Morning Get-Together from 6 - 7am.

National programs such as Sean Hannity, Dave Ramsey, Rush Limbaugh and Jim Bohannon are featured on weekdays. Weekend programming includes the syndicated AgriShop program with host Gene Millard, The Midwest Outdoors with Fred Ramsey and a local buy/sell/trade program called The Trading Post. Local church services from Huffman United Methodist Church are heard live on Sunday mornings. The rest of the weekend programming is mainly from the national Fox Sports Network. The station was owned by Eagle Communications, and features programming from ABC Radio.

KFEQ also had a TV station for a time, KFEQ-TV, which signed on in 1953. Ownership separation in 1969 resulted in the station changing its calls to the current KQTV.

KFEQ was founded by John L. Scroggn and Scroggin & Co. Bank and first broadcast in 1923 from Oak, Nebraska. He moved the station to St. Joseph in 1925 where it was noted for its live remote daily broadcasts three times each day from the St. Joseph Stockyards and four times each day from the St. Joseph Grain Exchange. During this time it moved initially from 833 to 1120 to 1300 to its present location at 680 in 1930.

For several decades during the late 20th century, the station played country music and called itself "Country Sunshine." It also broadcast St. Louis Cardinals baseball games when Kansas City had the Athletics.

Due to the station's low dial location, transmitter power and the surrounding area's flat land, it decently covers most of Kansas City and Topeka during the day.

One of the station's four towers was toppled in a farming accident on June 16, 2009. All four towers were rebuilt and placed into service in 2010.

External links

Station Web site

Radio stations in the Kansas City media market

By AM frequency	580 610 680 710 760 810 890 980 1030 1090 1140 1160 1190 1250 1340 1380 1410 1480 1510 1550 1590 1660

By FM frequency	88.5 89.3 90.1 90.7 90.9 91.5 91.9 92.3 93.3 94.1 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.5 97.3 97.7 98.1 98.9 99.7 100.1 100.7 101.1 102.1 103.3 103.7 104.3 105.1 105.5 105.9 106.5 107.3 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.450 162.475 162.550

By callsign	K279BI KANU KBEQ-FM KCCV KCFX KCHZ KCJK KCKC KCMO KCMO-FM KCNW KCSP KCTE KCTO KCUR-FM KCWJ KCXL KCZZ KDMR KDTD KEC77 KESJ KEXS KFEQ KFKF-FM KID77 KJHK KJNW KKFI KKJO-FM KKLO KKSW KKWK KLRQ KLRX KMAJ-FM KMBZ KMBZ-FM KMJK KMVG KMXV KMZU KPOW-FM KPRS KPRT KQRC-FM KRBZ KTBG KWJC KWOD KYYS KZPT KZZ34 KZZ85 WDAF-FM WHB WIBW

Nearby radio markets Columbia-Jefferson City Omaha Pittsburg Springfield Topeka See also List of radio stations in Missouri List of radio stations in Kansas

News/Talk radio stations in the state of Missouri

Stations	KALM – Thayer KAPE – Cape Girardeau KBMV-FM – Birch Tree KCMO – Kansas City KFEQ – Saint Joseph KFMO – Flat River KFRU – Columbia KTFK – Florissant KHMO – Hannibal KJFF – Festus KJPW – Waynesville KLPW – Union KMBZ – Kansas City KMOX – Saint Louis KQQZ – Desoto / Saint Louis KREI – Farmington KRMS – Osage Beach KRZK – Branson KSGF – Springfield KSGF-FM – Ash Grove KSIM – Sikeston KSIS – Sedalia KTRS – Saint Louis KTTR – Rolla KTTR-FM – St. James KTUI – Sullivan KWOC – Poplar Bluff KWOS – Jefferson City KWPM – West Plains KWTO – Springfield KZIM – Cape Girardeau KZRG – Joplin

Defunct:	KUKU – Willow Springs

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Missouri

Coordinates: 39°49′43″N 94°48′20″W / 39.82861°N 94.80556°W / 39.82861; -94.80556

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