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KKJQ (97.3 FM, "Q97") is a
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broadcasting a
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format. Its city of license is
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, United States. The station is currently owned by Murfin Drilling Company, through licensee Western Kansas Broadcast Center, LLC, and features programming from
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and
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.


History

The station went on the air as KBUF-FM on February 1, 1980. On July 23, 1984, the station changed its
call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign (also known as a call name or call letters—and historically as a call signal—or abbreviated as a call) is a unique identifier for a transmitter station. A call sign can be formally as ...
to the current KKJQ. National Association of Farm Broadcasters honoree Loretta P. "Lory Williams" Johnson served as the farm broadcaster at KKJQ from 1986 until her death in 2021.


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KJQ Country radio stations in the United States {{Kansas-radio-station-stub