KOFI

KOFI (1180 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Kalispell, Montana. The station is owned by KOFI, Inc. It airs an Oldies music and News/Talk radio format.[1] The station first signed on in 1955. It was assigned these call letters by the Federal Communications Commission.[2]

KOFI

City	Kalispell, Montana
Broadcast area	Kalispell-Flathead Valley area
Frequency	1180 kHz
Branding	1180 KOFI
Slogan	The Best Hits of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties
Programming
Format	Oldies/News/Talk
Affiliations	ABC Radio, Westwood One
Ownership
Owner	KOFI, Inc.
Sister stations	KZMN
History
First air date	1955
Technical information
Facility ID	35368
Class	B
Power	50,000 watts (day) 10,000 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates	48°11′52″N 114°15′03″W
Translator(s)	104.3 K282BP (Kalispell)
Links
Website	kofiradio.com

Their studios are downtown Kalispell at 317 1st Ave. E. with sister station KZMN. The transmitter site is in Evergreen, on Steel Bridge Road. KOFI must power down to 10,000 watts at night to protect Class A clear-channel WHAM in Rochester, New York. Nonetheless, its signal has been received over most of the western United States at night, as far south as Salt Lake City[3] and as far west as Snohomish, Washington.

George Ostrom was a mainstay at the station from 1956 to 2008; he recently came out of retirement to work at KGEZ.

Since 2017, KOFI's AM broadcasts are simulcast on 104.3 FM, as noted on the station's website.