KBKB-FM

KBKB-FM (101.7 FM) is a radio station serving the communities of Fort Madison, Burlington and Keokuk, Iowa.

Titan Broadcasting LLC agreed to purchase the station from GAP West (owned by Skip Weller) in late 2007.

[2] 101.7 The Bull's air staff consists of mornings with Drew and Tory, middays with Big Mark Hempen, K.C.

When KBKB made its debut with its soft rock format, ABBA's "Fernando" and Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" were current hits that received a lot of airplay on the new radio station.

Rich Harlow, morning man and sports reporter, and Dick Specht, a news reporter, were very popular radio personalities on KXGI along with Al Andrews, the mid-day personality who did the show "sales mart" [4] Rich, Al and Dick would continue on for a time with KBKB after the format change.

However, sometime after renaming to KBKB and the format change, the studios were relocated to a new dedicated single-story building just outside town on North Hwy 61 atop Burlington Hill.

KXGI and KBKB were originally affiliates of the MBS (Mutual Broadcasting System) network, a pioneer in radio in its day.