KAAN-FM (95.5

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) is a

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broadcasting a

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. Licensed to

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, United States, the station is currently owned by

Alpha Media Alpha Media LLC is a radio broadcasting company based in Portland, Oregon, and led by Bob Proffitt. The group does business under the Alpha Media name. It was formed from the merger of Alpha Broadcasting, L&L Broadcasting, and Main Line Broadc ...

. KAAN-FM first

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the air on October 27, 1978. The

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tower is located six miles west of Bethany on U.S. Route 136 at West 140th Avenue.Radio-Locator.com/KAAN-FM
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(ERP) of 50,000

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s. It covers much of Northwestern

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and some of Southern

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Ownership

On March 1, 2007, it was announced that GoodRadio.TV LLC planned to buy The Shepherd Group of radio stations in Missouri. The Shepherd Group operated 16 small-market radio stations in Missouri. The deal was reportedly worth $30.6 million. Dean Goodman formed the new company, GoodRadio.TV. He is the former president and chief executive officer of the television broadcasting company ION Media Networks Inc. Goodman stepped down from ION Media Networks in October 2006. The Shepherd Group included KJEL-FM and KBNN in Lebanon; KJFF in Festus; KREI and

KTJJ KTJJ (98.5 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station broadcasting from Farmington, Missouri. KTJJ has an extensive coverage area, heard from Jefferson City to south-eastern Illinois from west to east, and St. Louis to the Missouri-Arkansas border f ...

in Farmington; KRES and KWIX in Moberly;

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in Macon; KIIK,

KOZQ-FM KOZQ-FM (102.3 FM broadcasting, FM) is a radio station licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. The station signed in on May 2, 1968 as KJPW-FM. S ...

KJPW KJPW (1390 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Talk radio, news talk information format. Licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States, the station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee L ...

and KFBD-FM in Waynesville; KAAN-FM and KAAN in Bethany; and KMRN and

KKWK KKWK (100.1 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a classic rock music format. Licensed to Cameron, Missouri, United States, the station serves the rural areas north of the Kansas City metropolitan area as well as serves as a rimshot int ...

in Cameron. In December 2013, GoodRadio.TV merged into Digity, LLC. Effective February 25, 2016, Digity and its 124 radio stations were acquired by

for $264 million.

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