KORE explained

KORE
City:Springfield-Eugene, Oregon
Branding:1050 & 102.9 - Fox Sports Eugene
Frequency:1050 kHz
Airdate:1927
Format:Sports
Power:5,000 watts day
105 watts night
Class:D
Licensing Authority:FCC
Facility Id:64034
Callsign Meaning:Oregon[1]
Affiliations:Fox Sports Radio
Owner:KORE Broadcasting, LLC
Webcast:Listen Live
Website:foxsportseugene.com

KORE (1050 AM) is a radio station in Eugene, Oregon, licensed to Springfield and Eugene. The station is owned by KORE Broadcasting, LLC.[2]

KORE is Eugene's oldest radio station. It originally signed on from Portland in 1927 as KLIT but moved to Eugene and acquired the call sign KORE a few months later. Originally a full-service radio station, it switched to country in 1970 and adopted a Christian format in 1973.

The long-running religious program, The World Tomorrow, originated on KORE in 1933.

On June 15, 2016, KORE went silent. On November 23, 2016, KORE resumed broadcasting as Sports-Talk with programming from Fox Sports Radio.

Live Sports

Translator

KORE also broadcasts on the following FM translator:

Simulcast

KORE is simulcast on KLSR-TV when KLSR is off the air.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Call Letter Origins . 238 . The Broadcast Archive . Nelson . Bob . June 2, 2009 . June 21, 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160218013408/http://nelson.oldradio.com/origins.call-list.html . February 18, 2016 .
  2. Web site: KORE Facility Record . United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division .