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KFNZ-FM
KFNZ-FM (96.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Kansas City, Missouri. It simulcasts a sports radio format with sister station KFNZ (610 AM), except during conflicting sports programming. The stations are owned by Audacy, Inc., with studios on Squibb Road in Mission, Kansas. KFNZ-AM-FM air local sports shows on weekdays, with Fox Sports Radio programming heard nights and weekends. They are the flagship radio stations for the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals. KFNZ-FM is a Class C0 station, and has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The station's transmitter is off East 56th Street near Bennington Avenue in Kansas City. KFNZ-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology. History Classical KXTR The station began broadcasting on September 3, 1959. For four decades, it was classical music station KXTR, first owned by Telesound Broadcasting, and initially operating at 58,500 watts. Stereo Broadcasters, Inc. bought the station in 1962, and Senthesound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFNZ (AM)
KFNZ (610 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by Audacy, Inc. It simulcasts a sports radio format with sister station 96.5 KFNZ-FM, except when there are two live sporting events, with each station carrying one of them. The studios and offices are on Squibb Road in Mission, Kansas. KFNZ is one of the oldest radio stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area, going on the air in 1922. Broadcasting Yearbook 1977 page C-122 KFNZ is a Class B regional station, with a power of 5,000 watts, both the daytime and nighttime, using a non-directional antenna on one tower. The transmitter is off Mission Road in Prairie Village, Kansas. Programming is also heard on the HD2 subchannel of KFNZ-FM. Local sports shows are heard from mornings to early evenings on weekdays, with programming from Fox Sports Radio airing nights and weekends. Although the station had the slogan "The Football Channel" when it began in June 2003, it is currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Kansas City Chiefs Broadcasters
The following is a synopsis of radio and television broadcast outlets for the Kansas City Chiefs, a franchise from the National Football League. Radio From the team’s arrival in Kansas City in 1963 until 1989, KCMO (then at 810 AM) served as the Chiefs’ flagship. From 1989 until the end of the 2019 season, Cumulus Media's KCFX (101.1), a.k.a. "101 The Fox", broadcast all Chiefs games on FM radio under the moniker of The Chiefs Fox Football Radio Network, one of the earliest deals where an FM station served as the flagship station of a team radio network. Since 1994, Mitch Holthus has served as play-by-play announcer. Former Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson served alongside Holthus for color commentary but starting in the 2016 season, Dawson's role was slowly minimized as he announced his retirement from broadcasting, with Kendall Gammon succeeding him as the color analyst. The Chiefs and KCFX was the longest-lasting FM radio broadcast partnering tenure in the NFL. With the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WDAF-FM
WDAF-FM (106.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Liberty, Missouri, and serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. Owned by Audacy, Inc., the station airs a country music radio format, branded as "106.5 The Wolf". Studios and offices are located on Squibb Road in Mission, Kansas. WDAF-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is located on Wallace Avenue in east Kansas City, Missouri, near Interstate 435. WDAF-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio format. History Early years The station signed on the air on May 8, 1978, as KFIX-FM, the FM counterpart to KFIX (1140 AM, now KCXL), and was owned by Investments, Inc. KFIX-FM aired an adult Top 40 format, with news updates from the NBC Radio Network. Prior to the official sign-on, test transmissions carried the call sign KSAB (standing for "Strauss-Abernathy Broadcasting"). SW Radio Enterprises took over in 1979, flipping the format on November 19, changing call letters to KSAS, bran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQRC-FM
KQRC-FM (98.9 MHz, "98-9 The Rock") is a radio station licensed to Leavenworth, Kansas and serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. Its studios are located in Mission, Kansas, and its transmitter site is in South Kansas City. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. History 1962–1979: KCLO-FM The 98.9 MHz frequency shuffled between formats when it first went on the air in 1962. Licensed to Leavenworth, the station began as KCLO-FM, a religious- MOR outlet simulcasting with its AM sister station on 1410. 1979–1982: KTRO In 1979, it became a country station as KTRO. 1982–1986: KZZC Mark and Connie Wodlinger, the former owners of Top 40 outlet KBEQ-FM, bought KTRO in late 1982. In December of that year, KTRO began targeting the larger Kansas City market by flipping to a Top 40 format as "ZZ 99", KZZC. KZZC competed heavily against KBEQ by emphasizing on newer music in comparison to KBEQ's oldies lean. The station also was home to Kansas City legendary DJ Randy Miller i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee's Summit, Missouri. Business enterprises and employers include Oracle (formerly Cerner Corp), AT&T Inc., AT&T, BNSF Railway, GEICO, Asurion, T-Mobile US, T-Mobile (formerly Sprint Corporation, Sprint), Black & Veatch, AMC Theatres, Citigroup, Garmin, Hallmark Cards, Macquarie Group, Waddell & Reed, H&R Block, General Motors Corporation, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KZPT
KZPT (99.7 FM) is a hot adult contemporary radio station licensed to and serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. Its transmitter is located in east Kansas City, and studios are located in Mission, Kansas. History Early years 99.7 FM's historic roots go back to an experimental station, W9XER, which began as an "Apex" high-frequency station owned by the Midland Broadcasting Company in Kansas City. In 1937, it was operating on 31.6 MHz, and by 1940 was transmitting on 42.46 MHz. In late 1941, W9XER was converted into one of the earliest FM stations, now transmitting on 46.5 MHz. In 1944 the station received a commercial license as KMBC-FM, and began daily broadcasts that June. In 1946, it moved to 97.9 FM. For two more years, KMBC-FM broadcast on 100.5 FM, until the station was deleted in December 1949. Metromedia later revived the KMBC-FM call letters, when the station signed on at its permanent 99.7 FM location on October ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KYYS
KYYS (1250 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican radio format, format. It is city of license, licensed to Kansas City, Kansas. While it is owned by Audacy, Inc., the operations are under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Reyes Media Group. By day, KYYS is powered at 25,000 watts. But to protect other stations from interference on 1250 AM, it uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array at all times. Power is reduced to 3,700 watts at night. History In Lawrence and Topeka The station was first authorized, by telegram on April 27, 1927, as WREN, to the Jenny Wren flour company in Lawrence, Kansas. It operated at 1090 kHz for its first months and then used 1180 kHz, shared with KFKU, the radio station of the University of Kansas. On November 11, 1928, as part of the implementation of the Federal Radio Commission's General Order 40, WREN and KFRU were moved to 1220 kHz. In March 1941, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KWOD
KWOD (1660 AM) is a sports gambling radio station that broadcasts in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. KWOD is owned by Audacy, Inc. Its transmitter is in Westwood, Kansas, and studios are located in Mission, Kansas. History KWOD originated as the expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band. On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available " Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with then-WREN in Kansas City, Kansas authorized to move from 1250 to 1660 kHz."FCC Public Notice: Mass Media Bureau Announces Revised AM Expanded Band Allotment Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMBZ-FM
KMBZ-FM (98.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Kansas City, Kansas. Owned by Audacy, Inc., KMBZ-FM airs a news/talk radio format. Its studios and offices are on Squibb Road in Mission, Kansas. KMBZ-FM broadcasts at 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations in the U.S. The transmitter is located on East 56th Street near Bennington Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Programming KMBZ-FM's schedule is mostly local talk shows, while its sister station, KMBZ (980 AM), carries mostly nationally syndicated hosts. Weekdays on KMBZ-FM begin with ''Kansas City's Morning News'', followed by talk shows hosted by Jonathan Weir and Jayme Monacelli, and Dana Wright and Scott Parks. Nights feature syndicated shows including '' Armstrong & Getty, Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory'' and '' This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal''. On weekends, shows on money, health, gardening, law and technology are heard, some of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMBZ (AM)
KMBZ (980 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri. KMBZ is owned by Audacy, Inc. and airs a talk radio format. Its studios and transmitter site are in suburban Mission, Kansas, at separate locations. By day, KMBZ operates at 9,000 watts with a non-directional antenna. At night, it reduces power to 5,000 watts and uses a directional antenna to protect other stations on AM 980 from interference. Its signal covers the Kansas City metropolitan area, including parts of Missouri and Kansas. Programming After a local morning drive time news and interview show, simulcast with sister station 98.1 KMBZ-FM, 980 KMBZ's weekday schedule is made up of nationally syndicated talk programs including '' The Dana Show with Dana Loesch, The Glenn Beck Program, The Sean Hannity Show, The Lars Larson Show, The Joe Pags Show, Armstrong & Getty'' and ''Coast to Coast AM with George Noory''. World and national news is supplied at the beginning of each hour by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HD Radio
HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology. HD radio generally simulcast, simulcasts an existing analog radio station in digital format with less noise and with additional text information. HD Radio is used primarily by FM broadcasting, FM radio stations in the United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines, with a few implementations outside North America. HD Radio transmits the digital signals in unused portions of the same band as the analog AM and FM signals. As a result, radios are more easily designed to pick up both signals, which is why the HD in HD Radio is sometimes referred to stand for "hybrid digital", not "high definition". Officially, HD is not intended to stand for any term in HD Radio, it is simply part of iBiquity's trademark, and does not have any meaning on its own. HD Radios tune into the station's analog signal first and then look for a digital signal. The European DRM system shares c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) West division. Established in 1959 as a charter member of the American Football League (AFL), the Chiefs started playing in 1960 as the Dallas Texans, owned by league founder Lamar Hunt. In 1963, the team moved to Kansas City, and adopted its current name. The Chiefs joined the NFL in 1970 as a result of the AFL–NFL merger; entering the 2024 season, the team is valued at over US$4.85 billion. After Hunt's death in 2006, his wife, Norma, and children became legal owners of the team. After Norma's death in 2023, the Hunt children inherited her stake in the franchise. Clark Hunt, one of the Hunts' children, has served as chairman and CEO since 2006 and is the ultimate authority over personnel decisions. He is also the team representative at league owner meetings. The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
