KLGT (96.5 FM Hot Country Kix 96.5) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the Sheridan area, and most of northeastern Wyoming. The station is currently owned by Big Horn Mountain Radio Network, a division of Legend Communications of Wyoming, LLC. KLGT shares studios with KBBS and KZZS at 1221 Fort Street west of Buffalo. KLGT and

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share a transmitter site off East Eby Road in Story, WY. Sister station

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has studios at 324 Coffeen Avenue in Sheridan. KLGT and other Legend Communications stations KGWY, and KZMQ-FM hold an annual fundraiser for St. Jude Children's Hospital.

History

KLGT began as a construction permit in 1982. The station was assigned the call letters KLGM on December 6, 1982. On April 1, 1986, the station changed its

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to the current KLGT. The KLGT calls used to be in Breckenridge, Colorado. That station is now known as KSMT. In 2018, the station was a nominee for Radio Station of the Year, at the first annual Wyoming Country Music Awards. In 2021, the station added newscasts from Virtual News Source, which is an out-of-market news provider. Previously, news for the station and its sisters was done in-house.

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