IDAHO GIVES
a 501 (c) (3) Charity
Asks you to Donate during
Please go to the link below & donate to our Building Fund!
https://www.idahogives.org/organizations/history-of-idaho-broadcasting-foundation-inc
We’ve purchased the former KFXD building at 1024 12th Ave S. in Nampa.
Here is what it looks like today. We need to raise just over $200,000
by the end of 2020 to complete and finalize the purchase.
Please help!
Here’s why it’s important…
THE IDAHO BROADCASTING
HISTORY & EDUCATION CENTER
Where the past meets the present!
We want to educate people on the vital role FREE
over-the-air broadcasting has ALWAYS played
and continues to play to this day. Especially Now!
This museum portion will document important history…
but will help remind us of who we are & how far we have come.
…and perhaps show us some ways to make the future better!
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Radio and TV continue to do SO MUCH for our State!
Here’s a way to recognize and honor the people
who work VERY hard to make radio & TV happen…
24 hours a day, 365 days a year!
We also want to train
future broadcasters
If broadcasting is to continue to excel and improve,
we need a training program that utilizes the same
equipment and software used in today’s radio
and television stations. Our plan is to bring current
broadcasters to our facilities and pay them for their
efforts, using student tuition fees, at least in part,
to help fund the training programs.
Broadcasting is over 100 years old in Idaho…
and this is important “history” we are preserving
and will be celebrating & honoring in our future
History & Education Center!
That is why we need a building with an
endowment fund, and also need to create a
Media Education Center to keep it going
for another 100 years!
Call the Foundation office at
(208) 853-7756.
Text Art at (208) 761-1396
or via Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website
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KFXD Building Purchased
Is pleased to announce the purchase of the former
KFXD AM & FM Studios and Office Building
located on 12th Avenue South in Nampa, Idaho!
Thank You to all who have contributed so far!
You ROCK – and so did KFXD!
After all 2017 pledges come in, we will still be short $4,828.08.
However, we were able to obtain temporary-funding to make the down payment.
We are hopeful the remaining funds to reach $25,000.00 will arrive in early 2018.
Built in 1937 at a cost of over $100,000.00, in today’s
dollars, this building would cost almost 2-Million-dollars!
For its time, KFXD was a “state of the art” Radio Studio!
The building utilized the same type of cork for “sound proofing”
that was used by CBS in the KNX Radio studios in Los Angeles!
Here’s what the building looks like today!
Our Plans are to turn it into
The Idaho Broadcasting
History & Education Center
We are starting a Capital Campaign to raise the remaining funds
we need to pay-off the building, and we will need your help!
So as Paul Harvey used to say…
Standby for News!
To contribute or volunteer…
Please call the Foundation office at (208) 853-7756…or
Text Art at (208) 761-1396 or Email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Welcome
Welcome to the
HISTORY OF IDAHO BROADCASTING
Website.
A tip to help you find stuff -- If you aren't sure where to look to find something on this site, you can simply search for it. For example, if you can't remember the present call letters of a station from the past, using the "Search Site" link in the upper right corner of most pages, type what you are looking for and hit <enter> and you will find a list of all the places on this site where that is mentioned. Any keyword can be used. Happy looking !
A request from the webmaster -- If you are reading this, and work for a radio station, I would like you to check the information posted for your station, particularly the "Timeline". In the information I have available, there are gaps where I may have been unable to find all the correct dates and/or changes that have occurred over the past years. If you can provide any new information, or correct any erroneous information, please contact me. If no timeline exists yet for your station, pass along what you know and we can include it on the site.
Thank you!
-- Rockwell Smith
NOTE: Currently many links are faulty. We are actively working to restore or delete non-working links.
To provide as an independent, non partisan organization, a permanent and living repository, for the preservation of the history of radio and television broadcasting within the State of Idaho, from inception, to and including, the present;
To bring to the community at large a broader knowledge of how pioneers in Idaho Broadcasting created enormous impact on the evolution of society;
To stimulate in people of all ages, especially the young, a recognition of the practical and real contributions to our quality of life that radio and television broadcasting has provided, and continues to provide, to the citizens of Idaho.
The History of Idaho Broadcasting Foundation, Inc. is an Idaho non-profit corporation incorporated in January of 2004 with the Idaho Secretary of State. Application for Recognition of Exemption under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code to be filed for in the immediate future.
Art Gregory is President of the organization, Frank Aden Jr. is Vice President and Secretary, and Rockwell D. Smith is Treasurer. There are no paid employees. The corporation is staffed by volunteers. Funding for the organization will come from donations, membership and sponsorship fees, grants, and through the sale of official History of Idaho Broadcasting Merchandise and Memorabilia. All funds raised will be used to fund the work of the organization.
Peter Robbins, CPA with Corbett & Robbins, LLP is the Corp’s financial advisor.
Randolph E. Farber, Nampa Attorney, is the Corporation’s General Counsel.
Robert L. Shaver, Registered Patent Attorney with the Boise firm Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, is the Corporation’s Copyright Advisor.
History of Idaho Broadcasting Foundation, Inc.
6127 N. Hastings Avenue - Boise, ID 83714
Phone/Fax: (208) 853-7756 | Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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