KBKW
KBKW (1450 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Aberdeen, Washington, and serving the area around Grays Harbor. The station is currently owned by Jodesha Broadcasting, Inc. It airs a classic country radio format. Programming is simulcast on 250 watt FM translator 103.5 K278CU in Aberdeen. Programming. Weekdays begin with "Coffee Talk Live with Doug McDowell," a local news and talk show. The rest of the weekday schedule is supplied by nationally syndicated conservative talk shows: Mike Gallagher, Ben Shapiro, Michael Savage, Lars Larson, Jim Bohannon, Hugh Hewitt, Red Eye Radio and First Light. Weekends feature shows  on money, health, pets, home repair, travel, technology and science. Weekend syndicated hosts include Kim Komando, Rudy Maxa and Dr. Michio Kaku. Most hours begin with world and national news from ABC News Radio. History. The station originally signed on the air on August 1, 1949, as KBKW. The call sign represented the founder's initials, Ben K. Weatherwax. Weatherwax was part of a prominent local family, and was the first full-time radio newsman in Southwest Washington, employed at KXRO until the launch of KBKW. In later years, the call letters changed to KAYO, with a switch to a  country music format. On April 28, 1995, the station reverted to the current call sign KBKW, with the FM sister station retaining the KAYO call letters. The KAYO call letters have since switched to an FM station in Alaska. On January 18, 2022, KBKW changed its format from news/talk to a simulcast of KSWW's HD3 subchannel's classic country format as "Timber Country 94.7", which is fed on translator K234AU.