Three months after taking them off the air, Townsquare Media has returned the licenses of KBOB/1170 (Davenport) and FM translator K281DB/104.1 (Davenport).
Townsquare submitted cancellation applications for both facilities on July 14. No additional information was provided on the reason for the decision to surrender the licenses.
Economic conditions were cited in March filings requesting special temporary to remain silent.
KBOB had been the only AM station in Townsquare’s Quad Cities group. K281DB could only be used to relay KBOB as a condition of its grant during the AM revitalization filing window.
KBOB had transmitted with 1kW day and night, using a four-tower directional pattern during the day and a six-tower pattern at night.
KBOB was known as KSTT for most of its history. FCC records show Davenport Broadcasting Company signed on KSTT on 750 in 1946 as a 250-Watt daytimer. Five years later, it moved to 1170 and upgraded to 1kW with day and night operation.
The station changed its callsign to KKZX in 1984 but returned to KSTT in 1987. In 1993, it changed to KJOC as part of a format change to Sports. The KJOC callsign was moved to FM in 2014 and 1170 became KBOB, which had been used on FM stations in the market.
1170 carried a variety of formats over the years but was best known as a Top 40 outlet during the format’s AM heyday. It had most recently carried ESPN Radio.
1170 is the second Quad Cities AM signal to go silent: The license of WKBF/1270 was deleted in 2020.