KRVN-FM
KRVN-FM is a country formatted radio station licensed to Lexington, Nebraska, United States. The station serves the Grand Island-Kearney area broadcasting from an 890-foot tower in Lexington, Nebraska. The station was established in November 1962 by the Nebraska Rural Radio Association, the farmer-rancher cooperative that opened KRVN, an AM agricultural news station, in 1951, and since acquired a network of stations across Nebraska. KRVN-FM is a radio partner of University of Nebraska-Kearney Athletics.
History
On November 23, 1962, just three weeks after its initial sign-on, the original tower collapsed due to a storm. A new tower was installed and brought the station back on the air on July 1, 1963. Less than a year later, on June 22, 1964, a tornado tore off the top 400 feet of the structure. The station went down again when the 600-foot tower collapsed in January 1969, and a storm took it down yet another tower on October 30, 1971. The station finally returned to the air with a stable 50,000 watts on May 27, 1976. KRVN-FM went to 100,000 watts in January 1984.