Official Site = www.kbon.com For radio folks in Louisiana, the prevailing wisdom had long been that Louisiana music was best left to early mornings, weekends, or specialty programs. KBON did not completely escape that pattern, but it broke it more successfully than anyone else. On its air, a traditional Cajun song with accordion and French lyrics might sit between country and classic rock, as if that were the most natural thing in the world. The station went on the air from Eunice in 1997, founded by Paul Marx, a Crowley native raised in a French-speaking household. Marx had served in the Navy in Vietnam, recorded several 45s as a singer,…

KAPB online KAPB Marksville sits on the northern edge of Acadiana, where the border between Cajun country and central Louisiana begins to blur. The station went on the air in 1954, part of the same postwar growth that gave many small towns their own local signal. In Elizabeth Roberts’s late-1950s survey, KAPB was the only station in its immediate region with French programming. Its early manager, Willie Bordelon, hosted The Cajun Hour in the afternoons, mixing French news and music, while the station also carried ten minutes of French prayers each morning. KAPB is also small-town radio in the old sense. Laborde uses voice tracking, but feeds his remote family…