KXSS-FM (96.9 FM, "96-9 KISS-FM") is a Top 40 (CHR) formatted

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serving the

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, market. KXSS-FM is owned by

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. Its studios are located on Southwest 34th Avenue in Southwest Amarillo, and its transmitter tower is based north of the city on the property of unrelated television station KFDA-TV in unincorporated Potter County. The 96.9 frequency was, until 2008, home to a

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format as "96.9 KMML," under the ownership of

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; however, it was one of close to 450 radio stations sold by Clear Channel in the process of privatization, beginning in 2007. KXSS, along with its sister stations KPRF-FM, KATP-FM, KMXJ-FM, and KIXZ, was acquired along with approximately fifty other stations by Gap Broadcasting for a total price of $139M. What eventually became Gap Central Broadcasting (following the formation of GapWest Broadcasting) was folded into

on August 13, 2010. The KMML call sign has been reissued to a radio station in Cimarron, Kansas.

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