KRAV-FM (96.5

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, "Mix 96.5"), is a

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, owned by

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. It airs a

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, playing a mix of pop hits from the 1990s to today. Its studios and offices are located in the Cox Broadcasting Complex on South Memorial Drive, near

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in Tulsa. The

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is on Route 97 in the Osage Reservation north of Sand Springs. Mix 96.5 is also heard on Cox Digital Cable channel 1984.

History

On November 1, 1962, KRAV first signed on. It was owned by the Boston Broadcasting Company, with George R. Kravis II as president and general manager. (The

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is the first four letters of Kravis' last name.) A stand-alone FM radio station was rare in the 1960s, when there were few FM receivers; most FM stations were co-owned by AM stations, simply

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ing the same programming. At first, KRAV's effective radiated power was 20,000

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s from a 330-foot-tower, giving it a fraction of the coverage it has today. In 1966, Kravis bought AM station KFMJ (now

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), a 1,000 watt daytimer, to pair with KRAV. It aired classic country music, while KRAV continued with its

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/ middle of the road format. In the 1970s, KRAV moved to an

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format, while KFMJ switched to a

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format. In 1976, KRAV moved from AC to a

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format as ''FM96 KRAV'', also calling itself ''V96 FM''. In the 1990s, KRAV's power was boosted to 100,000 watts, though broadcasting from a 137-foot-tall tower. In 1996, Kravis sold KRAV and KFMJ to

for $5.5 million. Cox continued the Hot AC format on KRAV, while switching KFMJ to

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and

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as KGTO. KRAV and KGTO moved into studios on South Yale Avenue, along with co-owned KRMG. KGTO would be sold to Perry Broadcasting several years later. In 2009, KRAV was relocated to a much taller tower shared with Cox's other FM and TV stations, at in

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in Sand Springs. Its signal now extends from the

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border to the suburbs of

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. In May 19, 2025, Robert Zoellner's Zoellner Media Group entered in an agreement with Cox Media Group to acquire the company's radio cluster in Tulsa (KRAV, KJSR, KRMG, and it's FM counterpart and KWEN) for an undisclosed amount, with sale expected to be closed in second half of 2025, pending the approval from the FCC.

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