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, "96.7 KISS FM") is an FM
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licensed to serve
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. The station is owned by
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, licensed to Townsquare License, LLC. It airs a top 40 (CHR) music format. All Townsquare Media Bozeman studios are located at 125 West Mendenhall Street, downtown Bozeman.
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KZMY KZMY (103.5 FM, "My 103.5") is a radio station licensed to serve Bozeman, Montana. The station is owned by Townsquare Media, licensed to Townsquare License, LLC. It airs a hot adult contemporary music format. All Townsquare Media Bozeman stud ...
, and KISN all share a transmitter site on Green Mountain, east of Bozeman. The station was assigned the KISN call letters by the
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on January 14,
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Ownership

In February 2008,
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completed the acquisition of 57 radio stations in 13 markets in the Pacific Northwest-Rocky Mountain region from
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. The deal, valued at a reported $74 million, included six Bozeman stations, seven in
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and five in
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. GapWest was folded into
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on August 13, 2010.


History

96.7 started out as the easy listening station for Southwest Montana. In between 1983 and 1984, it became a Top 40 format. However it could not keep up with KUUB. By 1985, it became an Adult Contemporary format station. By 1990, it took the moniker 96 the sky, Montana's soft rock. Throughout the next ten years, The Sky would move towards a CHR format. It first moved towards hot AC in 1998. Through the next years, the sky moved towards adult top 40 with a CHR format consisting of Destiny's Child, Britney Spears and Creed, N'Sync, and The Backstreet Boys. By 2002 it became a full-blown top 40 under the All-hit 96 The sky moniker. In 2004 The callsign changed to KISN, the callsign used to be that of an Adult top 40 radio station in
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. That frequency is now
KZHT KZHT (97.1 FM) is a contemporary hit radio formatted radio station, broadcasting to the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. It is owned by iHeartMedia as one of six radio stations in the market. The station's studios are located in West Valley C ...
also a top 40 station owned by the same company until
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(Clear Channel Radio) spun off its radio stations in small-town markets with Bozeman being one of them. For much of the 2000s, Kiss FM was known for mixing in hard rock since Bozeman did not have an active rock outlet. They also have thrown in local artists especially those in the hip hop genre.


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External links


KISN official website
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