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The newspaper began publication in 1887 under the title The McPherson Daily Republican and in 1959 changed to its current name. [3] In 2021, Gannett sold the paper to CherryRoad Media. [4] In 2023 CherryRoad acquired the McPherson News Ledger and absorbed it into the McPherson Sentinel. [5] [6]
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McPherson was founded in 1870 by the twelve members of the McPherson Town Company. [6] In 1887, city officials began a failed attempt to have the community named the state capital. The first post office in McPherson was established in 1873. [ 7 ]
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The first owners in 1949 were Ken Krebhiel (who also owned The Republican newspaper), Paul Sargent of Peoples Bank and Trust, John Griffith, owner of Friends Drug Store, and Everette Mills, a McPherson attorney. KNEX's most enduring employee was Claude Hughes, who came to McPherson from Garden City. He began as the station's first engineer in 1949.
McPherson County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 Census , the population was 399, [ 1 ] making it the least populous county in the state of Nebraska and the fifth-least populous county in the United States .
The station was first licensed as KNEX-FM on July 17, 1975. On January 1, 1984, the station changed its call sign to KBBE. [3] [4]In April 2022, Davies Communications, which had owned KBBE and sister station KNGL since 1985, announced they would sell the station to Hutchinson-based Ad Astra per Aspera Broadcasting.
McPherson County is the name of three counties in the United States: McPherson County, Kansas; McPherson County, Nebraska; McPherson County, South Dakota