KDBS is an American radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a sports talk format. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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 (FCC) to serve the community of Alexandria, Louisiana

Alexandria, Louisiana

Alexandria is a city in and the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes....

. The station is licensed to and operated by Cenla Broadcasting.

History

On February 1, 1988, the callsign was changed to KRRV-AM with the callsign changing on March 15, 1996 back to the callsign of KDBS.
The station aired ESPN sports radio as 1410 ESPN Sports Radio while owned by Clear Channel. The format was changed to an oldies

Oldies

Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....

-based format when the station was acquired by Cenla Broadcasting in November 2006.

In September 2008, Cenla Broadcasting changed the KDBS format back to sports as ESPN 1410.http://www.kdixie.com/

In the mid 1960's, the station was owned by a local attorney and had a super fine engineer by the name of Hank L. The format was rock and roll. GREAT family station to work for then.