KNTY (103.5 FM, Real Country 103.5) is a commercial radio station in Sacramento, California. The station broadcasts a gold-based country radio format and is owned by Entravision Communications. Its radio studios and offices are located in North Sacramento. KNTY has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,000 watts. The transmitter is on S Street near 23rd Street in Sacramento. KNTY formerly had an HD Radio channel, but it has abandoned digital transmissions, as well as RDS title/artist PAD data. History As KBMB "103.5 The Bomb" In 1996, the station signed on with a Regional Mexican format as KRYR. Then, in November 1997, the call sign changed to KBMB and switched to an Urban Contemporary format as 103.5 Da Bomb, with the moniker "Better Mo' Better Music." The station was originally owned by Diamond Broadcasting, which, in turn, was controlled by license holder Paula Nelson, making KBMB Sacramento's second African American-owned and operated station behind KQBR-FM, which was launched four years earlier. While the format debuted during the wave of current-driven hip-hop and R&B stations that sprang up nationally in the late 1990s, KBMB's music direction also consisted of soul, blues, funk, old school, gospel, reggae and pop titles (in rare occasions). Initially, the station was an affiliate of the satellite-fed "Touch" format from ABC Radio, a contract pursued and finally secured by the station's first operations director Thomas Turner. With the aid of promos, liners and drops produced by Bob Jones, the programming also served the largely ignored hip hop music community in Sacramento, as other stations such as KSFM, a leader in the market as a Rhythmic CHR, did not fully embrace hip hop music. Reflecting the market's demographics (7% of the Sacramento radio market is African American), KBMB relied primarily on white females 18–34 for its ratings and commercial appeal. It was marketed as a Rhythmic CHR in 1998 as a way to target beyond the core audience and to attract more mainstream advertisers to the station, while still maintaining an unofficial urban format through its ABC Network affiliation and its own music selection. It was the home of the syndicated Doug Banks Morning Show, making KBMB one of few urban stations on the West Coast to carry a syndicated morning show. It also carried the Tom Joyner Morning Show for a short period upon the station's debut, but actually had both on for a while, after moving