KRNA
| City | Iowa City, Iowa |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| Branding | 94.1 KRNA |
| Slogan | "Classic Rock That Really Rocks" |
| Frequency | 94.1 MHz |
| First air date | October 4, 1974 |
| Format | Classic rock |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 299 meters (981 ft) |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 35555 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°45′0″N 91°50′16″W / 41.75000°N 91.83778°WCoordinates: 41°45′0″N 91°50′16″W / 41.75000°N 91.83778°W |
| Owner |
Townsquare Media (Townsquare Media Cedar Rapids License, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KDAT, KHAK, KRQN |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | krna.com |
KRNA is a radio station licensed to Iowa City, Iowa, with studios in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The transmitter for the station is located west of Oxford, Iowa. The station currently has a Classic rock format. The station is currently owned by Townsquare Media.
In 1971, a group of University of Iowa students formed a company known as Communicators Inc. of Iowa that aimed "to put together a radio station with a major market sound in what was basically a small-to-medium market." At the time, FM radio stations in Iowa were primarily used for beautiful music formats or repeater signals for co-owned AM stations while popular music was played on AM stations. By 1974, Communicators Inc. of Iowa had been renamed KRNA, Inc., and the company was granted FCC approval to begin broadcasting. KRNA began broadcasting at 93.5 FM on October 4, 1974. (KRNA later moved to 93.9 FM in 1979 before moving to its present 94.1 FM at 9 a.m. on October 14, 1991.) By January 1975, Arbitron telephone surveys showed that nearly half of local radio listeners were turned into KRNA. As part of its "major market sound", KRNA pre-recorded its commercial announcements during a time when most commercials were read live on the air, and it also broadcast 24 hours a day while other radio stations signed off during the overnight hours for equipment maintenance.
In 1994, KRNA purchased the former KQCR radio (102.9 FM) in Cedar Rapids to create the area's first radio duopoly. After reformatting KQCR as country music station KXMX, owners Rob Norton and Eliot Keller agreed to sell KRNA and KXMX to Capstar Broadcasting in 1998. While the KRNA sale was successful, Capstar terminated the agreement to buy KXMX. (Norton and Keller kept KXMX, renaming it KZIA and changing the station's format to contemporary hits.) AMFM, Inc., acquired Capstar in 1999, and Clear Channel Communications acquired AMFM in 2000; however, KRNA was sold to Cumulus Media that year since Clear Channel already owned a group of stations in eastern Iowa. Today, KRNA broadcasts from the APAC building in downtown Cedar Rapids with Cumulus-owned stations KHAK, KDAT, and KRQN.
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