KNRS-FM (105.9

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) is a

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station, licensed to

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, and broadcasting to

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, using the branding "Talk Radio 105.9." KNRS-FM

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s a

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format with

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KNRS (570 AM). The studios are on South Decker Lake Drive in West Valley City. The station's

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is on

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, in the

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, southwest of Salt Lake City, KNRS-FM broadcasts using

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technology.

History

On December 24, 1979, the station originally

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as KCGL at 105.5 FM. It was powered at only 500 watts and offered

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music for the northern suburbs of Salt Lake City. In 1990, the station switched to

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as KBCK (K-Buck), carrying

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' " Real Country" network. In 1992, the station got a major power boost and increase in antenna height while moving to 105.7 MHz, now covering much of the

. The

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changed to KUMT, as "105.7 The Mountain", airing an

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(AAA) format. From November 2001 until November 2005, the station's call letters were KCPX identifying itself as "Channel 105-7" and airing a

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format. (KCPX had been the call letters for one of Salt Lake City's legendary Top 40 stations, at

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and 98.7 FM.) From November 2005 until November 1, 2007, the station returned to an adult album alternative format as KXRV, branded as "105.7 The River, Quality Music from Then and Now". Beginning on November 1, 2007, KXRV returned to a country format, branded "My Country 105.7", featuring voice mail messages from listeners, with no live DJs. Pre-recorded tags were heard after each song noting the title and artist. The call letters were changed to KTMY on January 17, 2008, to reflect the new format. In January 2009, the station flipped to

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as "La Preciosa 105.7". In August 2009, KTMY switched to KNRS-FM, and began carrying its current talk radio format. On October 8, 2015, at 5 p.m., KNRS-FM moved up the dial from 105.7 FM to 105.9 FM, rebranding as "Talk Radio 105.9".

Programming

The station features predominantly

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syndicated national talk show hosts, including ''

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'',

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, Clyde Lewis, ''

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with

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'' and ''

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''. One local program is heard weekdays during afternoon

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, hosted by Rod Arquette. On Saturdays, KNRS originates the regionally syndicated weekend "Travel Show" hosted by Larry Gelwix. Other weekend shows deal with money, health, computers and guns. Syndicated weekend hosts include

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and Bill Cunningham, as well as repeats of weekday shows. Some hours on weekends are paid

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. KNRS-AM-FM have a full news department, with local news every thirty minutes on weekdays. In addition, the station is a

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of co-owned

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for national news coverage. KNRS gets some of its local news and weather coverage from

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. KNRS-AM-FM air live

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on weekdays from 5:00a.m. until 10:00p.m. and on Saturdays from 10:00a.m. until 6:00p.m. Traffic reports are provided by iHeartMedia's Total Traffic Network, based at the

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. KNRS-AM-FM's

s include

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, KJMY, KODJ,

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, and

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. All KNRS-AM-FM programming is streamed live on the station's website and

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website and app. In addition, all of the station's local shows (both weekday and weekend) and select national shows as a

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KNRS-FM HD2

KNRS-FM broadcasts using

technology. The HD2

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had carried a mainstream AC format branded as "Soft Rock" from iHeartMedia's

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networks. The HD2 subchannel was later discontinued.

References

External links

KNRS-FM Website
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