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Overview
Licensed to San Jose, California, KBAY is a country station broadcasting on 98.5 FM. Listeners know it as “Bay Country 98.5.” It first signed on in 1959.
Station details
- Call sign
- KBAY
- Frequency
- 98.5 FM
- Format
- Country
- On-air name
- Bay Country 98.5
- City of license
- San Jose, CA
- Market
- San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
- Licensee
- Connoisseur Media Licenses, LLC
- Station class
- B
- First on air
- 1959
- FCC facility ID
- 65415
- Website
- kbaycountry.com
- FCC public file
- publicfiles.fcc.gov
- Wikipedia
- Read the article
The FCC license is held by Connoisseur Media Licenses, LLC. It has used the KBAY call letters since October 2026.
Online, it is at kbaycountry.com. San Jose is in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA market, where local newspapers include San José Spotlight and The Mercury News. Sister stations include KBLX-FM, KMVQ-FM, KOIT and KEZR.
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KBAY at a glance
- Frequency
- 98.5 FM
- On air as
- Bay Country 98.5
- Format
- Country
- Licensed to
- San Jose, CA
- Market
- San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA
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