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KMXV
KMXV (93.3 FM "Mix 93.3") is a contemporary hit radio station based in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The Steel City Media outlet operates with an ERP of 100 kW. Its current slogan is "Kansas City's #1 Hit Music Station". It is also one of two Top 40s competing in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the other being KMJK. The station's studios are located at Westport Center in Midtown Kansas City, and the transmitter site is in the city's East Side. History KCMK-FM (1958–1971) The station signed on March 5, 1958, as KCMK-FM (Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas) with 35,000 watts of power. The station primarily aired classical music, with some other types of music thrown in. In 1963, the station began airing a country music format. DJ Jack Wesley "Cactus Jack" Call was at the station (from KCKN) for one week when he was killed on January 25, 1963 in a car crash. Singer Patsy Cline sang at a benefit for him at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas on March 3, 1963. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCKC
KCKC (102.1 FM) is an adult hits radio station based in Kansas City, Missouri, that operates with an ERP of 100 kW. It is licensed to and operated by Steel City Media. The studios are at Westport Center in Midtown Kansas City and the transmitter is in Independence, Missouri. History Early years The first station on the frequency, WHB-FM, signed on in 1948, as a simulcast for WHB (then at 710 AM). Cook Paint and Varnish Company owned the station. This would only last for about two years, as FM radio was still in its infancy. The company turned in the license in 1950. Transcontinent Television signed on WDAF-FM on March 5, 1961, as a simulcast partner to WDAF (610 AM). WDAF-FM was an NBC Radio affiliate, with 36,000 watts of power. Taft Broadcasting purchased the WDAF stations in 1964. In 1967, WDAF-FM departed from the AM simulcast in afternoons and evenings with a top 40 format. The FM then moved to middle of the road on January 15, 1968, referring to themselves as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBEQ
KBEQ-FM (104.3 FM, "Q104") is a commercial radio station in Kansas City, Missouri, serving the Kansas City metropolitan area market. It is owned by Steel City Media and airs a country music format. The station's studios and offices are located on Mill Street at Westport Center in Midtown Kansas City. The transmitter site is on the East Side of Kansas City, off Stark Avenue and 23rd Street South. KBEQ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 99,000 watts (100,000 with beam tilt). History Early years (1960–1973) In November 1960, the station signed on the air as KBEY, the FM counterpart to AM station KBEA (1480 AM, now KCZZ) in nearby Mission, Kansas. It was only powered at 17,500 watts, a fraction of its current output. KBEY played big band and easy listening music, running a no-announcer broadcast automation system. In 1970, KBEY was acquired by Intermedia, Inc., a division of Interstate Securities Corp. The division was managed by Mark Wodlinger, former manager of KMBC-TV, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMJK
KMJK (107.3 FM broadcasting, FM, "107.3 The Vibe") is a contemporary hit radio radio station, station serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is city of license, licensed to North Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by Cumulus Media, with studios on Indian Creek Parkway near Interstate 435 in Overland Park, Kansas. KMJK has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter is off Pleasant Prairie Road at Doris Neer Road in Napoleon, Missouri. History Early years What is now KMJK started broadcasting on September 11, 1969 at 106.3 FM as KLEX-FM. The call sign represented the original city of license, Lexington, Missouri. The radio masts and towers, tower was just north of Odessa, Missouri. The format was country music. The station's call letters changed to KBEK-FM in 1976, and relocated to 107.3 in 1981 with a class C signal. The station was locally owned by Lexington Broadcasters until being sold in September 1989. In 1984, the station changed formats t ... [...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] |
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] |
KCKN (defunct)
KDTD (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Mexican Regional music format. Licensed to Kansas City, Kansas, United States and serving the Kansas City metropolitan area, the station is currently owned by Edward Reyes, through licensee Reyes Media Group, Inc. The station's studios are located on South 55th Street in Kansas City, Kansas; and its transmitter is located on Ann Avenue behind the Midway Shopping Center. History Establishment as WLBF Entrepreneur and businessman Everett L. Dillard is the individual credited with putting the station on the air as WLBF. Dillard began broadcasting from his personal residence, with the original studio and transmitter being built at 32nd and Main streets in Kansas City, Missouri. The station moved across the river in 1928, when it began to occupy the 11th floor of the Elks Lodge Building (905 North 7th Street) in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The building was last known as the Huron Building and was demolished in 1999. Like many early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCHZ
KCHZ (95.7 FM), is a commercial radio station licensed to Ottawa, Kansas, and serving the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. It simulcasts a conservative talk radio format with sister station KCMO (710 AM). They are owned by Cumulus Media, with studios located on Indian Creek Parkway in Overland Park, Kansas. KCHZ has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 98,000 watts. The transmitter is off 198th Street near Stranger Creek in Linwood, Kansas. Programming Weekdays on KCHZ and KCMO begin with a local news and information show hosted by Pete Mundo, followed by a local talk show with Kevin Keitzman. Nationally syndicated conservative talk shows make up the rest of the weekday schedule. Hosts include Vince Coglianese, Guy Benson, Mark Levin, Will Cain, Bill O'Reilly, Dave Ramsey and '' Red Eye Radio''. Weekends feature shows on money, health, religion, cooking, travel and the outdoors, some of which are brokered programming. Syndicated weekend hosts include Rich Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFKF-FM
KFKF-FM (94.1 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Kansas City, Kansas. It is owned by Steel City Media and airs a country music format. The studios and offices are on Pennsylvania Avenue at Westport Center in Midtown Kansas City, Missouri. KFKF-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The transmitter site is off East 63rd Street in Kansas City, Missouri, near Interstate 435. History Early years as KCKN-FM The station has been playing country music since it signed on the air on May 23, 1963. KCKN-FM was a simulcast of its AM counterpart, KCKN (1340 AM, now KDTD). The two stations were owned by Cy Blumenthal and the call sign represented Kansas City, Kansas. KCKN-FM was originally powered at 20,000 watts. In 1965, KCKN-AM-FM was acquired by Kaye-Smith Broadcasting, which owned a number of stations in sizable markets, mostly in the West. By the 1970s, KCKN-FM's power was boosted to the current 100,000 watts, but the tower was only 460 feet tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of United States cities by population, 67th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is located in Western Pennsylvania, southwestern Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River, which combine to form the Ohio River. It anchors the Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.457 million residents and is the largest metro area in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 26th-largest in the U.S. Pittsburgh is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infinity Broadcasting
Infinity Broadcasting Corporation was a radio company that existed from 1972 until 2005. It was founded by Michael A. Wiener and Gerald Carrus. It became associated with popular radio personalities like Howard Stern, Opie and Anthony, Don Imus and Mike Francesa. Infinity merged with CBS Corporation in 1997 and later became part of Viacom in 2000, when CBS and Viacom merged, serving as the radio division of CBS. After the Viacom split in 2005, Infinity changed its name to CBS Radio; the company would later merge with Entercom, presently known as Audacy, Inc. History Formation and pre-merger Infinity was founded in 1972 by two former Metromedia executives Michael A. Wiener and Gerald Carrus, with the acquisition of KOME, an FM radio station that served the San Francisco Bay Area, and finally received its license by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) a year later. In 1979, Infinity acquired WBCN in Boston. In 1981, Mel Karmazin was brought in as new preside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
