KUDD (105.1 FM, "Mix 105.1") is an American

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broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format serving

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and surrounding areas, that's

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. This station is owned by Dell Loy Hansen, through Broadway Media LS, LLC. Its studios are in

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and its transmitter site is located southwest of the city of

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in the

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. KUDD has been granted a U.S. Federal Communications Commission

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to change the city of license to

(from

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), move to a new transmitter site, decrease ERP to 15,000 watts and increase HAAT to 1,243 meters.

History

The station signed on the air in December 1978 with the call letters KMXU. On January 9, 2004, the station changed its call sign to KNJQ. On June 7, 2006, the station changed its call sign to KAUU. Until October 27, 2015, 105.1 had been simulcasting sister station KEGA; on that date, the station began stunting with Christmas music as "105.1 The Gift", when it moved to

from its former transmitter site east of Hop Creek Ridge in central Utah. The station also changed its city of license from

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to American Fork. On December 2, 2015 Broadway announced they would donate KUDD to Community Wireless, which in turn would move KPCW-FM down from 91.9 to 91.7, with the "Mix" format moving to 105.1. On December 27, 2015 the station shifted to dance music as just "105.1 FM" as a placeholder format until the move took place on March 31, 2016 at 10:51 a.m., with " New Romantics" by

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as the first song after the move. The station concurrently changed its call sign to KUDD with the move.

HD Radio

KUDD broadcasts in

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with three subchannels: * KUDD-HD1 is a digital simulcast of the analog signal * KUDD-HD2 airs

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"Kool FM" * KUDD-HD3 airs

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References

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