KOZA (96.9

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, and serving the

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and

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areas of Northeast Kansas. It airs a

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and is owned by Many Signals Communications. The studios are located on Southwest 29th Street in Topeka. KOZA has an

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(ERP) of 50,000

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is on U4 Road at 118th Road in Hoyt.Radio-Locator.com/KOZA
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History

The station, originally KDVB, was formerly owned and operated by

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. Cumulus won the station's license in a

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(FCC) auction in 2004 where it was originally to operate on 96.7 FM in

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. Cumulus applied to move it to Effingham as a Class C2 in 2007, but only built it out as a low-powered Class A. That happened once Cumulus canceled its plans to move KMAJ-FM into the

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market (as Cumulus acquired

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the year prior). That prevented the company from fitting KDVB within the ownership limits in its Topeka cluster. During its time under Cumulus ownership, KDVB operated as a repeater of 100.3

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. Cumulus had obtained a

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from the FCC for a power increase to 8,100 watts

. The permit expired on January 11, 2013. A new application was filed that day. On September 30, 2021, Cumulus Media sold KDVB for $300,000 to Intrepid Companies. Intrepid was managed by Don Sherman, previously the owner of KSJM in the Wichita market. Nine days later, KDVB went silent. Intrepid filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to move the station's transmitter to a site near Hoyt, re-classify the station as a Class C2, and upgrade the station's power to 50,000 watts. The application was approved on April 25, 2022. On June 26, radio news website ''RadioInsight'' disclosed that Intrepid had applied to change the station's callsign to KQRB. The change took effect on June 28. On July 11, the station, now with the KQRB call letters, returned to the air and began stunting with a broad mix of music and construction sounds ahead of a new format set to launch on July 14 at noon. At that time, KQRB debuted an

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format consisting of a mix of hip-hop, R&B, and old school music branded as "96.9 The Beat", which launched with 1,969 songs commercial free, with "

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" by

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being the first song played. The station featured the syndicated ''DeDe in the Morning'', '' Big Boy's Neighborhood'' in middays, ''

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Daily'' in evenings, and ''Sunday Night Slow Jams'' with R. Dub on weeknights and Sunday nights. On March 29, 2024, Intrepid announced they would sell KQRB to

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-based Many Signals Communications, which owns five radio stations in Northeast Kansas and Southeast Nebraska, for $670,000. Ahead of the closing of the sale, Intrepid and Many Signals agreed to coordinate on a call letter change to KOZA for the station, which took effect upon the closing of the sale. In addition, Many Signals announced the station would flip to a

format. On June 17, 2024, Many Signals closed on the purchase of KQRB, and flipped the station to hot AC, branded as "96.9 Pulse Radio". In addition, the station changed call letters to KOZA the following day.Topeka Receives a Hot AC Pulse
Radioinsight - June 18, 2024

References

External links

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