KSIB-FM

KSIB

City of license	Creston, Iowa
Branding	Your Country
Frequency	101.3 MHz
Format	Country
Transmitter coordinates
Owner	G. O. Radio, Ltd.
Sister stations	KSIB-AM
Website	ksibradio.com

KSIB (101.3 FM) is a radio station located in Creston, Iowa that serves an eight-county area in southwest Iowa. It has been a country format station for most of its broadcast history. The station changed to talk format for six months in 2014 before returning to the country music format. KSIB also broadcasts local news, weather and sports. Local baseball, basketball and football games are broadcast live.

Broadcast Area

KSIB-FM reaches as far north as West Des Moines, and south of the Missouri-Iowa border. KSIB's prime broadcast area includes these 8 counties in Iowa: Adair, Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Madison, Ringgold, Taylor, and Union. News and sports are primarily covered from the counties of Adair, Adams, Ringgold and Union counties.

Programming

KSIB was founded in 1946 and has maintained the country format since its beginning, except for six months beginning on March 31, 2014, when the format changed to talk. From 6 AM to 1 PM weekdays, the programming was predominately local. The only exception was the nationally syndicated AgriTalk program from 10-11 AM. After 1 PM, The Dennis Miller Show, Herman Cain and others were broadcast until 6 AM the next day.

KSIB dropped its talk radio format after six months, on October 10, 2014. When it returned to the country music format, the station selected music from a wider range of artists and broadcast music from the last several decades as well as the newest releases in the genre. Also different from before, the music DJs are all local. Country begins at 1 PM every weekday with Melinda Mackey, also the host of KSIB's Grapevine show. Ben Walter, host of the KSIB Morning Show, is on after - from 6 PM to midnight. Jordan Armstrong takes the overnights, from midnight to 6 AM.

The KSIB Morning Show has Ben Walter and Jordan Armstrong. Ryan Horvat, from Joliet, IL, hosts a sports show, Midday Report, with interviews from local coaches, each weekday at 11 AM. Other local programs on KSIB include Trading Post (buy/sell/trade), Grapevine w/Melinda Mackey (local interest talk), When the Dust Settles (auto racing), Radio Ranch w/Chad Rieck (agriculture talk), and Level B w/Ben Walter (outdoor living). AgriNews is carried at 10 AM each weekday.

Personalities

Ben Walter started part-time at the station in 1987. He hosts the KSIB Morning show every weekday morning - includes funeral announcements, birthdays/anniversaries, trivia, newscasts, weather, and sports. Melinda Mackey has been with KSIB for nearly 15 years - hosting the Grapevine program, Job Search, and more. Jordan Armstrong joined KSIB in 2014, doing occasional news and filling in for Ben Walter on the KSIB Morning Show.

External links

• KSIB website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KSIB
• Radio-Locator information on KSIB
• Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KSIB