KOOQ (1410 AM) is a

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 ...

broadcasting a classic hits format to the

North Platte, Nebraska North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is located in the west-central part of the state, along Interstate 80, at the confluence of the North and South Platte Rivers forming the Platte River. ...

, United States, area. The station was launched in January 1966 and is owned by Eagle Communications, Inc.

History

KOOQ was originally launched under the call sign KNOP in January 1966. It was originally an affiliate of CBS Radio. In December 1968, it was announced that KNOP would drop CBS and would be changing to ABC effective January 1, 1969. In 1972, Dahl applied for the call sign to change from KNOP to KAHL. In 1982, Dahl filed an application with the FCC to sell controlling interest to Valley Communications, Inc. On January 1, 1983, KAHL's call sign changed again to its current sign, KOOQ. In 2007, it was announced that KOOQ would be dropping

Oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. Since 2 ...

and would be affiliating with

ESPN Radio ESPN Radio, which is alternatively branded platform-agnostically as ESPN Audio, is an American sports radio network and extension of the ESPN television network. It was launched on January 1, 1992, under the banner "SportsRadio ESPN". The netw ...

. On December 1, 2018, KOOQ dropped ESPN Radio and began stunting with

Christmas music Christmas music comprises a variety of Music genre, genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas and holiday season, Christmas season. Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of Christmas ...

as "Reindeer Radio".Upper Midwest Broadcasting
/ref> On December 27, 2018, after almost a month-long stunting with Christmas music, the station's format was changed to classic hits under the branding ''FM 98.1/1410 AM'', focusing on music from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

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* * OOQ Classic hits radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1966 1966 establishments in Nebraska {{Nebraska-radio-station-stub