KHHO

KHHO

City of license	Tacoma, Washington
Broadcast area	Tacoma, Washington
Branding	South Sound Sports 850
Frequency	850 kHz
First air date	1960
Format	Sports radio
Power	10,000 watts day 1,000 watts night
Class	B
Facility ID	18523
Transmitter coordinates	47°13′56″N 122°23′22″W
Former callsigns	KTAC (1960-1992) KMTT (1992-1996)
Affiliations	Fox Sports Radio, Premiere Radio Networks
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Sister stations	KBKS, KJR, KJR-FM, KKBW, KNBQ, KUBE
Website	southsoundsports850.com

KHHO (850 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Sports radio format. Licensed to Tacoma, Washington, USA, the station serves the Tacoma portion of the Seattle-Tacoma radio market. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel and features programing from Fox Sports Radio and Premiere Radio Networks. Its branding is South Sound Sports 850 and it carries the majority Fox Sports Radio lineup of programs as well as the Jim Rome show weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon. Some of the weekday programming is simulcast through its sister station, 950 KJR. KJR's programming, however, is not available in HD on its primary station but on KHHO as the station is available in HD 24 hours a day. The station carries play-by-play of the Tacoma Rainiers Pacific Coast League team. It was previously Tacoma's network affiliate of the Washington State Cougars IMG College network. KHHO will now be part of KJR-AM's broadcast of the Washington IMG College Network starting in the 2011-12 season.

History

The station went on the air as "85 KTAC" in 1960, and was a Top 40 competitor to KJR-AM, KING-AM and KOL-AM throughout the 1970s. Don Wade, Robert O'Smith, John Williams, Ron Erak, Bruce Cannon, Bob Case and Rick Hanson were among the air personalities during its Top 40 dominance of the south Puget Sound area. The calls changed to KMTT on June 19, 1992, simulcasting with then-sister station KMTT-FM (103.7 The Mountain). Entercom sold the station to Southwave Wireless, LLC (Steve West and Dan Walker) in 1996, and on March 11, 1996, the station changed its call sign to the current KHHO and launched a News/Talk format (K-H-2-O, The Voice of the South Sound) featuring Manda Factor, Jeff Walker and Bruce Cannon. In 1998, the station was acquired by The Ackerley Group and adopted an all-sports format.

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KHHO
• Radio-Locator Information on KHHO
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KHHO