KROA
radio station in Grand Island, Nebraska
KROA (95.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian contemporary format. Licensed to Grand Island, Nebraska, United States, the station serves the Grand Island-Kearney area. The station is currently owned by My Bridge Radio.
KROA is the flagship station of the "My Bridge Radio" network of Christian radio stations in Nebraska. Other full-power stations in the network include KRKR Lincoln, KQIQ Beatrice, KPNY Alliance, KZLW Gretna, KMBV Valentine, KHZY Overton, KSSH Shubert, and KXNG Lexington. The range of each station (except KMBV, KSSH, KQIQ, and KXNG) is also extended via a network of translators.
My Bridge Radio also owns 750 KMMJ and 104.7 K284DC in Grand Island, Nebraska, which broadcast in Spanish.
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This entry incorporates text from “KROA” 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.