KWFC
| City | Springfield, Missouri |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | |
| Branding | The Sound of Home |
| Frequency | 89.1 MHz |
| First air date | 1969 |
| Format | Southern Gospel |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 342.0 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 3681 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°12′6.00″N 92°56′33.00″W / 37.2016667°N 92.9425000°W |
| Callsign meaning | Keep Witnessing For Christ |
| Owner | Radio Training Network, Inc. |
| Sister stations | KWND, WLFJ-FM, WVFJ, WJIS, WEXL |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www.kwfc.org |
KWFC (89.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Southern Gospel format. Licensed to Springfield, Missouri, United States, the station serves the Springfield MO area. The station is owned by the Radio Training Network, Inc.
KWFC began broadcasting on April 17, 1969 at 97.3-FM in Springfield. At the time, the commercial station operated for most of the day, but would shut down for the night. Those early days saw a programming mix of teaching, preaching and music. The musical format was not strictly southern gospel as it is today, primarily because the genre didn't have that designation nationally.
Instead, according to a 1970 Billboard magazine article, the station aired a mix of gospel, contemporary and easy listening Christian music. That musical format would stay with the station until the 1980s when the Christian music genre diverged into better defined subgenres (southern gospel, inspirational, contemporary Christian). At that time, KWFC became primarily southern gospel.
KWFC moved into the W.F. "Bill" Askew Broadcast Center in 1979, where operations still originate today. The original transmitter facility was also located on the BBC campus on a 400-foot tower. In 1985, Baptist Bible College sold the 97.3 MHz frequency to Demaree Media, which then founded KXUS. At that time, KWFC moved to 89.1-FM and began operations as a non-commercial educational station. In 1998, KWFC and BBC purchased a 1,000 foot tower (formerly used by KSPR) at Fordland, and relocated to that location.
At around that same time, KWFC began expanding into another technology, the Internet. In 1998, KWFC.org was launched to meet the growing demand to get information out to the world. KWFC would begin streaming its signal over the Internet in 2006.
In January 2015, Baptist Bible College, Inc., sold KWFC to the Radio Training Network. The sale closed on January 30, 2015, at a price of $1,301,000.
KWFC's beginnings spawned from radio piracy when a young Jim Price began tinkering in radio as a teenager. He built a pirate radio station in his parent's garage. Not long after that, he found legitimate work as a DJ and engineer at a station in Detroit.
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