KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr interviews then-City Manager Bruce Woody/Photo by Brent Martin By BRENT MARTINSt. Joseph PostKFEQ Radio adapted over the past 100 years, always striving to inform its audience and entertain as well.This is the final segment of our five-part seriesNo longer a music station, KFEQ now offers agricultural, news, talk, and sports programming.Former News Director Barry Birr continues to host the KFEQ Hotline even in retirement, a program he started in 1992, after KFEQ became a Rush Limbaugh affiliate."That's a national program," Birr tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post in an interview. "What if we had a local program that addressed issues in the news and took calls?"Never did the Hotline format prove its worth more than during the 2007 ice storm, a storm so severe it knocked other broadcasters off the air for days."For quite a while we were the only broadcast facility that was operating," Birr says. Soon after the storm created widesprea
KFEQ innovates, adapts over its 100 years
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