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KKCT (97.5 FM), known as Hot 97.5, is a top 40 (CHR)
radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...
licensed to
Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck (; from 1872 to 1873: Edwinton) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat, seat of Burleigh County, North Dakota, Burleigh County. It is the state's List of cities i ...
. Townsquare Media also owns
KLXX KLXX (1270 AM), known as "Super Talk 1270", is a radio station located midway between Mandan and Bismarck, North Dakota, United States. It has always been licensed to Mandan, although most of its audience is in neighboring Bismarck. KLXX curren ...
1270 (
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),
KBYZ KBYZ (96.5 FM), known as "96.5 The Walleye", is a radio station located in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States, owned by Townsquare Media. Townsquare Media also owns KLXX 1270 ( Talk), KKCT 97.5 ( CHR), KACL 98.7 ( Classic Hits), and K ...
96.5 (
Classic rock Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the early-1990s, primarily focusing on comm ...
), KACL 98.7 (
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), and
KUSB KUSB (103.3 FM), known as "US 103.3", is a radio station located in Bismarck, North Dakota, owned by Townsquare Media that signed on September 25, 2006 with a country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, ...
103.3 (
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) in the Bismarck-
Mandan The Mandan () are a Native American tribe of the Great Plains who have lived for centuries primarily in what is now North Dakota. They are enrolled in the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. About half of the Mandan still ...
area. All the studios are at 4303 Memorial Highway in Mandan, along with the AM transmitter and tower. All the FM transmitters are at a site in Saint Anthony, North Dakota, on 57th Road.


Construction permit

On December 15, 2009 KKCT was granted a
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(FCC)
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to increase HAAT to 305.2 meters. The permit expired on December 15, 2012.


History

KKCT signed on in 1993 with a
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format as "Kat Kountry", which later became "K-Kountry". KKCT flipped to
Contemporary Hit Radio Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top ...
(Top 40) as "Hot 97.5" in 2004, which led to competitor
KYYY KYYY (92.9 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Bismarck, North Dakota, and serving the Bismarck–Mandan region. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station has an adult contemporary format under the "Mix 92.9" banner. For 45 years, the stat ...
"Y93" switching to an
adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...
format. Y93 changed back to Top 40/CHR in September 2012. However, on December 27, Y93 changed its branding to Mix 92.9, and flipped back to adult contemporary.


External links


Hot 97.5 official website
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