KRNB-FM

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KRNB

City of license	Decatur, Texas
Broadcast area	Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex/Decatur/Bowie/ Gainesville/Jacksboro/Weatherford
Branding	"105.7 KR&B"
First air date	1996
Frequency	105.7 MHz
Format	Urban Adult Contemporary
ERP	94,000 watts
Class	C
Callsign meaning	K Rhythm aNd Blues
Owner	Service Broadcasting Corporation
Website	krnb.com

KRNB-FM (105.7 MHz), is an Urban Adult Contemporary-formatted radio station in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned by Service Broadcasting Corporation alongside with sister stations KKDA-AM-FM. It's studios are located in Grand Prairie, Texas.

KRNB was first launched in 1996 with an Urban Adult Contemporary format playing R&B music, hence the callsign. (Coincidentally, it is the Western reflection of an R&B station in Philadelphia called WRNB.) At the time it's only other competitor for the rest of the decade was KRBV, which went off the air as an R&B station in 1999 due to a transmitter problem that caused low ratings. In the early years of the station, it was home to The Tom Joyner Morning Show until 2002 when its new competitor KSOC-FM took over the affiliation to the show. (This marked the second station Tom Joyner DJ'ed in the Metroplex as he worked at KKDA-FM before.)

After KRBV changed formats, KRNB was the sole Urban AC for two years, but due to its transmitter location, it was easier to pick up in the Northern and Western portions of the Metroplex but harder to pick up in the Southern and Eastern portions, especially in the southern half of Dallas and downtown Dallas. Then it got new competition: KSOC changed formats from a Jammin' Oldies station to an Urban AC. So KRNB modified its format to an R&B Oldies format by playing only R&B music from the 1970s to the 1980s, and changed its branding from 105.7 KRNB to Old School 105.7 (pronounced 5-dot-7). The modification did not last too long; KRNB reverted back to Urban AC in 2005, changed the name back to 105.7 KR&B ("&" in place of "N") and became the home of The Steve Harvey Morning Show through Premiere Radio Networks, a division of Clear Channel. (Before this, Steve used to have a morning show on KBFB by syndicate of sister station KKBT in Los Angeles.) Like many Urban AC stations across the country, KRNB has a nighttime Quiet Storm show.

In addition to Steve Harvey, KRNB's current on-air personalities include Kenny J. "The Big Baby," Shay Moore, Tony Mathis and Ron Chavis who hosts "The Quiet Storm." Traffic Reports are by Tammy Thomas and Dave Mitchell.

While KRNB's main competitor is KSOC, both stations lag behind its Mainstream Urban counterparts: KRNB's sister KKDA and KSOC's sister KBFB due to a hampered signal in the southern half of the Metroplex, according to Arbitron ratings.