KNFM
radio station in Midland, Texas
KNFM (92.3 FM), branded as "Lonestar 92.3", is a country music-formatted radio station that serves the Midland–Odessa metropolitan area of Texas, United States. The station is under the ownership of Townsquare Media. Its studios are located on Highway 191 just west of Midland (its city of license) in rural Midland County.
KNFM broadcasts with 100,000 watts from the top of the KPEJ-TV Fox 24 tower near Gardendale and has a center of radiation of 985 feet making it the largest FM signal in the Permian Basin.
“KNFM” enters the record as radio station in Midland, Texas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KNFM, radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“KNFM” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, KNFM, radio and station provides the most credible route into that argument.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6334311. Authority coordinates are 32.098, -102.290. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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This entry incorporates text from “KNFM” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.