KKSY-FM
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| City of license | Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
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| Branding | 96.5 Kiss Country |
| Slogan | Iowa's New Country |
| Frequency | 96.5 MHz |
| First air date | February 27, 1963 |
| Format | Country music |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 158 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 73594 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°1′40.00″N 91°38′25.00″W / 42.02778°N 91.64028°W |
| Former callsigns | WMT-FM (1963-2012) |
| Owner | Clear Channel Communications (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KKRQ, KMJM, KWMG, KXIC, WMT |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 965kisscountry.com |
KKSY-FM (96.5 FM, "96.5 Kiss Country") is a 100,000 watt radio station in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is a country music formatted station owned by Clear Channel Communications.
[edit] History
KKSY-FM signed on February 27, 1963, as WMT-FM with a classical music format; it later became a "beautiful music" station before adopting an adult contemporary format. WMT-FM's studios have been located at Broadcast Park on Collins Road in Cedar Rapids, along with its AM sister station WMT and TV station KGAN (the former WMT-TV), since it signed on.[1] It was one of the few stations with a callsign beginning with W located west of the Mississippi River.
The station was known for their "time warp weekends" and long standing tradition of being heavily involved in the Cedar Rapids community. The station hosts "Uptown Friday Nights" every Friday night in downtown Cedar Rapids. The station often joins up with WMT for special promotional events, and simulcasts during severe weather conditions.
WMT-FM ended its longtime hot adult contemporary format on December 27, 2011, when Clear Channel transferred the country format from KKSY (95.7 FM); after a temporary simulcast period,[2][3] 95.7 FM began to simulcast WMT on January 2, 2012 and eventually took the KWMG call letters on January 17, 2012.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Danek, Ernie (1980). Cedar Rapids: Tall Corn and High Technology. Woodland Hills, CA: Windsor Publications. pp. 140–141. ISBN 0-89781-021-X.
- ^ DeWitte, Dave (December 27, 2011). "Mix 96.5 Becomes History as Clear Channel Opts for Country Format"KCRG-TV9. http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Mix-965-Becomes-History-as-Clear-Channel-Opts-for-Country-Format-136267248.html. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ "WMT Shares KKSY's Country Format"All Access. December 27, 2011. http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/100392/wmt-shares-kksy-s-country-format. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
- ^ Venta, Lance (January 2, 2012). "WMT-FM Becomes Kiss Country, 95.7 Becomes WMT-FM"RadioInsight. http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/netgnomes/55040/wmt-fm-becomes-kiss-country/. Retrieved January 2, 2012.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KKSY
- Radio-Locator information on KKSY
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KKSY
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