KBEW (AM)
KBEW (1560 AM) is a radio station located in Blue Earth, Minnesota that broadcasts an oldies format. The station is currently owned by KBEW, Inc. and features programing from ABC Radio .
Clifford Hedberg, owner of KMRS in Morris, MN, applied for KBEW's original construction permit; in August 1962 the FCC approved the application for a 250-watt daytime-only station. The FCC originally assigned the station the call letters KCLH (for "Clifford LeRoy Hedberg"), but before its first broadcast the call letters were changed to KBEW to reflect many of the communities in its Faribault County, MN: Kiester, Blue Earth, Bricelyn, Easton, Elmore, Wells, and Winnebago.
From its inception KBEW was managed by Clifford Hedberg's son, Paul, who also held an ownership interest in the station. Paul Hedberg had worked for his father at KMRS before gaining further on-air experience at KRIB in Mason City, IA and at several of the major radio stations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market (including WMIN, WTCN, WLOL, and KDWB). KBEW debuted on August 29, 1963, with a format of “memory music and news.”
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