WKHM-FM ("Jackson's Hit Music, K105.3") is a Top 40/CHR FM

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

licensed to

Brooklyn, Michigan Brooklyn is a village in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,206 at the 2010 census. It is located in the Irish Hills region of southern Michigan, just north of U.S. Route 12 along M-50. The village is located w ...

, United States, serving the

Jackson Jackson may refer to: People and fictional characters * Jackson (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the surname or given name Places Australia * Jackson, Queensland, a town in the Maranoa Region * Jackson North, Qu ...

area.

History

The WKHM callsign has a long Jackson tradition and is based on the names of the original owners of WKHM AM (Fred Knorr, Harvey Hansen, and Bill McCoy). The first WKHM-FM operated on 106.1 and is now

WJXQ WJXQ (106.1 FM, "Q106") is a commercial radio station licensed to Charlotte, Michigan, and serving the Lansing radio market. WJXQ is owned by Midwest Communications and airs an active rock radio format. Studios and offices are located on Ceda ...

. The current WKHM-FM signed on in 1995 and originally programmed

easy listening Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, ...

music, one of the last stations in Michigan to program such a format. "Easy Relaxed 105.3" played a mixture of adult contemporary hits, soft oldies, and smooth jazz. The "easy" format was dropped in early 1998 (moving to sister

WIBM WIBM (1450 AM) is a country music station in Jackson, Michigan owned by Jamie McKibbin, through licensee McKibbin Media Group, Inc.. This company also owns news/talk WKHM AM 970 and hot AC WKHM-FM "K105.3". WIBM's programming is also heard on ...

1450 AM for a short time until that station went

sports Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...

) and K105.3 was born.

FM translator

The WKHM-FM

HD2 HD1 is a proposed Redshift#Extragalactic observations, high-redshift galaxy, and is considered, as of April 2022, to be one of the earliest and most List of the most distant astronomical objects, distant known galaxies yet identified in the ob ...

signal is relayed by an

FM translator A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tra ...

HD Radio

WKHM-FM HD2 airs a sports talk format branded as "Fox Sports 101.9" with programming from Fox Sports Radio, feeding analog translator 101.9 W270CJ. On May 1, 2014, WKHM-FM launched a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, o ...

format on its HD2 subchannel, branded as "Hot Country 101.5," relayed on translator W268CA 101.5 FM Jackson, Michigan. The country format is now heard on

1450 AM and translator 95.9 W240DG. Programming on 101.5 is now a simulcast of WKHM 970 AM. On October 1, 2020, WKHM-FM HD2 switched affiliations from ESPN Radio to Fox Sports Radio, branded as "Fox Sports 101.9".Sports Network Switch In Jackson MI
Radioinsight – October 6, 2020

Sources

External links

* {{coord, 42.154, N, 84.402, W, type:landmark_region:US_source:FCC, display=title KHM-FM Adult top 40 radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1995 1995 establishments in Michigan