KYTO (96.1

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, "96 KTO") is a commercial FM

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licensed in

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, broadcasting to the Shasta & Tehama County areas. KYTO airs an

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format and is an affiliate of

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. Until 2024, it was the region's affiliate station for the

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History

KYTO was once the home for "Red 96.1" (KBHX) (now on 103.1 and 93.3) from 2001 until 2003, then it was the home of "Kicks 96", a country station that was a more classic country alternative to Q-97 until 2005. The station was an affiliate of Broadcast Architecture's Smooth Jazz Network until March 1, 2010, when KKXS switched to

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. The station also broadcast live video webstreams of

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Knights football. On February 13, 2024 (by coincidence, doing so just two days after the 49ers' loss in

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), the station abruptly dropped the sports talk format and flipped to

, joining

network, as "96 KTO, Redding's True Oldies", immediately applying to change callsigns to KYTO to match.KKXS Drops Sports for Oldies
/ref> The station changed its call sign to KYTO on February 18.

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