1. History
     TBC Radio Era    KBS Radio 4 Era    KBS 2FM/KBS Cool FM Era  

2. Accessibility
     FM Radio    DMB Radio(U-KBS Music)  

3. Trivia

4. Time Check Sponsors
     TBC Era    KBS 2FM/Cool FM Era  

5. Slogans

6. Controversies
     2002 – KBS 2FM advertisement scandal  

7. Foreign partners

8. See also

9. References

10. External links

KBS Cool FM (Hangul : KBS 쿨FM)(also known as KBS 2FM Hangul : KBS 제2FM방송) is a Hot AC music radio station of the Korean Broadcasting System. It plays mostly older K-pop Music from the 90s compared with KBS-FM (2Radio).^[1] The station's popular shows are Gayo Plaza, Volume Up and Kiss the Radio.

History

TBC Radio Era

• 1965-06-26 : Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation (Hangul: 동양 방송 공사) (Former body of JTBC.) was launched.
• 1965-06-27 : Radio Seoul Broadcasting (Hangul: 라디오 서울 방송) HLCD 89.1 MHz Started broadcasting.
• 1966 : Renamed as TBC-FM. 639 kHz AM Repeater launched.
• 1970 : TBC-FM Started South Korea's First Stereo FM Broadcast.
• 1980-12-01 : TBC-FM forced merged into KBS Radio by the special law of Chun Doo-hwan, president of military authorities.

KBS Radio 4 Era

• 1980-12-25 : Relaunched as KBS Radio 4 (Korean : KBS 제4라디오) aired Oldies and Trot. Callsign changed to HLKC-FM.
• 1988-12-24 : KBS Radio 4(Frequency: 89.1Mhz) Started Partial 24-hour Broadcast (Monday~Friday 24-hours Saturday~Sunday 18-hours).
• 1990-05-30 : Transmission power increased (TPO:1 kW ERP:173.5 kW → TPO:10 kW ERP:350 kW)
• 1994-10-01 : 24-hour Broadcast started.

KBS 2FM/KBS Cool FM Era

• 2003-10-10 : Renamed as KBS Cool FM/KBS 2FM (Korean : KBS 쿨FM/KBS 제2FM) aired KPop Music. 639 kHz AM Repeater stopped broadcasting
• 2005-03-03 : KBS Cool FM Opened its studio to the public along with KBS Radio 2.
• 2006 : Started visual radio (BORA) broadcasts on the internet.
• 2010-03-02 : KBS Moved Cool FM's radio transmitter from Mount Namsan to Mount Gwanaksan.
• 2013 : KBS 2FM Celebrated its 33rd anniversary. As part of the anniversary celebration all KBS 2FM programs (excluding Kiss The Radio) are made available nationwide via KBS MUSIC on DMB TV Channel 12B-2 also Visual radio (BORA) broadcasts became accessible by both registered and non-registered KBS website users via Fstream.

Accessibility

FM Radio

• Only KBS Seoul Station (headquarters) provides 'KBS Cool FM'. So KBS Cool FM is only available in Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi Province, Chuncheon, Wonju, Hongcheon, Hoengseong, Cheorwon, Cheonan, Asan, Yesan, Hongseong, Dangjin, Seosan, Taean, Jincheon, Eumseong and Chungju in South Korea. This was due to a controversy. (See Korean Broadcasting System#2002 - KBS 2FM advertisement scandal)

DMB Radio(U-KBS Music)

KBS 2FM Can be tuned nationwide via DMB audio channel KBS MUSIC (U-KBS).

• Seoul : CH 12B
• Chuncheon : CH 13B
• Daejeon/Cheongju : CH 11B
• Gwangju/Jeonju: CH 12B/CH 8B/CH 7B
• Daegu : CH 7B/CH 9B
• Busan/Ulsan : CH 12B/CH 9B
• Jeju : CH 13B/CH 8B

Trivia

• Despite being South Korea's No.10 Radio Station 2FM Program Volume Up became the highest-rated radio program in its timeslot across both AM and FM bandwidths in Seoul.^[2][3]

Time Check Sponsors

TBC Era

• LG Electronics : 1970 ~ 1973
• Maeil Dairies Co., Ltd : 1973 ~ 1975
• Sony Korea, c : 1975 ~ 1976
• KuKu Homesis : 1976 ~ 1978
• NH Life Insurance 1978 ~ 1980

KBS 2FM/Cool FM Era

• SK Telecom : 2003 ~ 2004
• Samsung Card/Samsung : 2004 ~ 2005/1
• SunnyTen : 2005/1 ~ 2005/3
• Seoul Institute of the Arts : 2005/3 ~ 2005/6
• S.M. Entertainment : 2005/6 ~ 2014/5/18
• Baskin-Robbins Korea (Bingsoo Ice Cream) : 2014/5/19 ~ Present

Slogans

• 대한민국 뉴스, 드라마, 대중음악 라디오 방송국 89.1 메가 사이클 TBC 동양방송 (South Korea's News, Drama, Popular Music Station 89.1 Megacycles TBC Tongyang Broadcasting TBC Era Slogan until 1980)
• 젊은 채널, 감성 채널 2FM (The Youth channel, The Emotional channel 2FM 2003~2014)
• 대중음악 89.1 (Popular Music 89.1 1980~1999 2010~2014)
• Today's Best Music 2FM (2014~Present)

Controversies

2002 – KBS 2FM advertisement scandal

KBS 2FM From 1980 until 2002 was prohibited to air commercial advertisements but in 2002 commercial advertisements resumed airing on KBS 2FM. The result KBS Local FM (a radio station owned by KBS used to re-transmit KBS 1FM and KBS 2FM) instead carried KBS 1FM programs even though KBS 2FM (05:00~07:00 KST) program like Fresh Morning and Good Morning Pops where aired due to that the two programs where prohibited to air advertisements excluding those of KOBACO (Korea Broadcast Advertising Corporation). However Park Myeong-su's Radio Show is aired (including commercials) on local KBS Happy FM stations in Busan, Changwon, Cheongju, Daejeon and Jeju starting April 2016 this was due to its popularity and despite Happy FM Does not air any commercials in all of its programs then Park Ji-yoon's Gayo Plaza is aired in all Happy FM stations starting September 2016 for the same reasons and Good Morning Pops which was aired on the Local FM stations moved to Local Happy FM stations in February 2017 with this development the show is no longer aired on Local FM stations.

Foreign partners

See also

• KBS Classic FM
• Gugak FM

References

• http://www.kbs.co.kr/radio/index.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20120531233100/http://koreangossipgirl.com/radio-guide/
• http://english.kbs.co.kr/ChannelInfo/Radio/index.html
• http://www.chomedia.com/chomedia/business/Radprice.pdf{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• http://www.kbs.co.kr/advertise/coolfm.html
• http://k.kbs.co.kr/Home/ChannelSchedule
• http://kong.kbs.co.kr/live_player/channelMini.php?id=KBSID&channel=11

External links

• KBS Cool FM Homepage

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