{"id":469714,"date":"2026-06-10T06:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469714\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:12:12","slug":"st-louis-foxy-106-9-kansas-citys-bob-fm-among-mba-award-winners-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469714\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis\u2019 \u2018Foxy 106.9,\u2019 Kansas City\u2019s \u2018Bob FM\u2019 Among MBA Award Winners. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roberts Metro Broadcasting urban oldies \u201cFoxy 106.9\u201d St. Louis, on FM translator K295CQ and KXBS-HD2, was among the big winners of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouribroadcasters.org\/awards\/award-winners\/\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Missouri Broadcasters Awards<\/a> announced June 6 during the Missouri Broadcasters Association\u2019s annual convention.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to winning Large Market Radio Station of the Year, \u201cFoxy\u201d was also awarded Single Subject Program and Best Opinion Commentary for the station\u2019s \u201cVoice of St. Louis\u201d show, as well as Best Single Entry Commercial Announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll four awards are testament to our team\u2019s dedication to quality, creativity and service to our community,\u201d \u201cFoxy 106.9\u201d PD Don \u201cDJ Wrekk-1\u201d Williams says. \u201cThese wins reflect our relentless pursuit of excellence and our commitment to representing the voice and culture of St. Louis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other Station of the Year winners include Zimmer Radio\u2019s \u201c94.3 Cat Country\u201d KATI Columbia in the Medium Market category, and Go Productions country \u201c107.9 The Coyote\u201d KCLQ Lebanon for Small Market. Both KATI and KCLQ also won for Air Talent\/Morning Show, for \u201cHilley and Hart\u201d and \u201cThe Coyote Morning Show with Crystal,\u201d respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Steel City Media adult hits \u201c102.1 Bob FM\u201d KCKC Kansas City won for both Large Market Air Talent Morning Show, for \u201cMornings with Jen Johnson,\u201d and Non-Morning Show for \u201cAfternoons with Natalie Rush.\u201d Other Non-Morning Show awards went to Mid-West Family Broadcasting rock \u201cQ92.9\u201d KQRA Springfield\u2019s \u201cNights with Leslie\u201d (Medium Market) and Better Newspapers country KKDY (102.5) West Plains\u2019 \u201cBig Jim\u2019s Big Lunch\u201d (Small Market).<\/p>\n<p>In the news and sports award categories, University of Missouri\/St. Louis Public Radio news\/talk KWMU (90.7) St. Louis\u2019 Marissanne Lewis-Thompson won for Large Market Newscast, while its \u201cBroadway on a Football Field\u201d story covering Drum Corps International events won Large Market Sports Report. Zimmer Radio talk KZRG-AM (1310, and translators at 102.9 and 105.9) Joplin\u2019s Ted Bojorquez won Medium Market News Anchor, and the station\u2019s \u201cNews with Steve Scott\u201d won Medium Market newscast.<\/p>\n<p>Other News Anchor awards went to Audacy news\/talk KMOX-AM-FM (1120\/104.1) St. Louis\u2019 Michael Calhoun (Large Market) and Odle Media Group news\/talk KFMO (1240 AM) Park Hills\u2019 Dustin Kopp (Small Market), while Small Market Newscast was awarded to Carter Media country \u201cThe Farm 100.7\u201d KMZU Carrollton\u2019s Caleb Brownley. Other Sports Report awards were given to Zimmer Radio sports KTGR-AM (1580, and translators at 100.5 and 105.1) Columbia for its Mizzou vs. Arkansas pre-game (Medium Market) and Northwest Missouri State University news\/talk KXCV (90.5) Maryville for its story \u201cMaryville Native Plays in Super Bowl LX.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roberts Metro Broadcasting urban oldies \u201cFoxy 106.9\u201d St. Louis, on FM translator K295CQ and KXBS-HD2, was among the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4975,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-469714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}