KSAS-FM (103.5

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, "Kiss-FM") is a commercial

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located in

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, broadcasting to the

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area. KSAS-FM airs a Top 40 (CHR) music format. The station made headlines in April 2008 when its afternoon

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, Steve "KeKe Luv" Kicklighter, set an unofficial world record by going 175 consecutive hours without sleep, on the air. The stunt was timed to the start of National

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Prevention Month, in order to bring attention to that cause. In April 2009, Keke Luv ran 7

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s in 7 days to raise awareness to child abuse.

History

Before becoming top 40 KSAS had the KARO call letters which now belong to a Christian worship music station in Boise. In the mid-1990s, KARO was an all

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music format as Arrow 103 until 1997 when KARO switched to an AOR rock format, competing between classic rock KKGL, then Active Rock J105 and alternative leaning KQXR. Going back to the station's beginnings as KQZQ, they originally aired an automated adult Top 40 format (TM Production's "Stereo Rock" format) as Z-103. In 2000 KARO flipped to Top 40/CHR becoming 103.3 Kiss FM, making the return of the ''Kiss FM'' moniker in the Boise market for the first time since the former CHR station KIYS dropped ''92 Kiss FM'' and switched to country as ''Kissin' 92'' ( KIZN) ten years prior. It became a formidable competition to the other top 40's in the Treasure Valley. From 2000 to 2013 the other stations ''Music Monster 99.1'' (KTPZ as an all-80s format) and ''93.1 Hit Music Now'' (KZMG ow KBOI-FM">KBOI-FM.html" ;"title="ow KBOI-FM">ow KBOI-FM exited the format. On November 16, 2006, iHeartMedia">Clear Channel Communications iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company fou ...

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