K237FR
Radio station in Tumwater, Washington, United States
K237FR ("Olympia's 95.3 KGY") is a translator radio station licensed to Tumwater, Washington, which serves the Olympia region. It broadcasts with 220 watts at 95.3 FM, relaying the classic hits programming carried over the HD2 subchannel of KYYO in McCleary.
K237FR is a Class D translator, and was first licensed in 2014. It was initially used to provide an FM signal for KGY (1240 AM) in Olympia, Washington. KYYO concurrently changed its own call sign from KGY-FM in order to avoid confusion. Initially KGY's programming was retransmitted by KYYO-HD2, which was in turn retransmitted by K237FR.
Later in 2014, the original KGY on 1240 AM was sold to Sacred Heart Radio, which changed the station's call letters to KBUP. At this point there were no longer any stations officially assigned the KGY call letters by the Federal Communications Commission. However the "classic hits" format that had originated at KGY continued to be broadcast by KYYO-HD2, using the slogan "Olympia's 95.3 KGY", and this programming continued to be retransmitted on K237FR.
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