KFOO
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| City | Centralia, Washington |
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| Broadcast area | Olympia and Tacoma, Washington |
| Branding | ALT 102.9 |
| Slogan | Tacoma's Rock Alternative |
| Frequency | 102.9 MHz FM (also on HD Radio) 102.9-2 FM-iHeartRadio's "The Classic Rock Channel" |
| First air date | 1980 (as KELA) |
| Format | Alternative rock |
| ERP | 70,000 watts |
| HAAT | 668 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 33829 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°58′31″N 123°08′16″W / 46.97528°N 123.13778°W |
| Callsign meaning | nod to locally-founded band FOO Fighters |
| Former callsigns | KELA (1980-1983) KELA-FM (1/1983-2/1983) KMNT (1983-2005) KNBQ (2005-2013) KYNW (2013-2016) |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KBKS-FM, KHHO, KJR, KJR-FM, KPWK, KUBE |
| Webcast |
Listen Live HD2: Listen Live |
| Website | alt1029.com |
KFOO (102.9 FM) is an alternative rock-formatted radio station serving the Tacoma and Olympia, Washington area. Owned and operated by iHeartMedia, the station is licensed to Centralia, Washington, and the transmitter site is in Capitol State Forest near Olympia, while its studios are located in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle.
This station signed on in 1980 as KELA with a country music format. In 1983, the station changed its callsign to KELA-FM, but only held this callsign for less than a month before the calls changed to KMNT. The country music format and KMNT calls were moved to 104.3 FM in 2005. A new country station would be launched after the move; 102.9 would acquire the KNBQ call letters and would be branded as "Q Country 102.9".
In the 1980s, the call letters KNBQ were on 97.3 (now KIRO-FM), which at the time broadcast a top-40 format and served Tacoma and the South Sound. Famous DJs included Ric Hansen mid-days and Beau "Rockin'" Roberts at night.
On November 4, 2011, at 7 a.m., KNBQ started simulcasting sports talk station KJR, becoming "Sports Radio 950 and 102.9 KJR". The station's calls were not changed because its sister station KJR-FM, located on 95.7 FM, already has them. This is a similar move made by KFRC-FM/San Francisco, WCFS-FM/Chicago, and WSBB-FM/Atlanta after those stations began simulcasting KCBS, WBBM and WSB (respectively) due to their sister stations owning the same calls with the -FM suffix having a different format from the AM counterpart and did not want to transfer them over.
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