page_title: KKOB-FM
section_title: Nash Icon
hierarchical_section_title: KKOB-FM / History / Nash Icon
caption_attribution_description: This is a logo for a radio station KBZU.
context_page_description: KKOB-FM, is a radio station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a news and talk format simulcast with KKOB 770.
context_section_description: On August 15, 2014, at 5 pm, KBZU became one of the first affiliates of the new "Nash Icons" network as 96.3 Nash Icon. KBZU was one of thirteen stations Cumulus had flipped to the new format.
  "96.3 Nash Icon" aired country music, mostly from the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. The station shared the "Nash" brand with current-based country sister station KRST until it dropped the "Nash" brand in June 2019. "Nash Icon" was developed by Cumulus Media, used on numerous Cumulus stations across the country as well as some non-Cumulus stations. Described as a "Hot AC for Country", the format focuses on popular country hits from the mid-1980s to early 2000s from the biggest artists of that time (the "Icons") such as Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, George Strait, Shania Twain and Alan Jackson along with some new material to be released on the new "Nash Icon" record label. Nash Icon plays about 25-40% new material, without some current trends such as "Bro-country" heard on current based country stations.
  In April 2015, Tony Lynn, who had been a long time morning host at KRST in the 1990s and KBQI from 2000-2011, returned to the air on KBZU in the afternoon. Other personalities included Kris Abrams in mornings, Paul Bailey in middays and Johnboy Crenshaw during nights.
caption: Logo from 2014-2020
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