Vintage: KMOX-FM switches to KHTR! (December 20, 1982)

KMOX-FM was launched on February 12, 1962 and ended on December 20, 1982 to start a new hit music demographic beginning with hits from the 1970s to present day. KHTR ended on November 5, 1988 for KLOU which is the same station that broadcasts on 103.3 in the St. Louis area today.

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[revinhatol]

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MUSIC RADIO, W L S FM 95, CHICAGO

[randywheeler]

March 24, 2025 KMOX returns to a full powered FM signal with a simulcast on 104.1. I expect the WHHL call letters currently on "Hot 104.1" will eventually become KMOX-FM. Entercom/Audacy did this back in 2011 when they blew up AC KUDL 98.1 to a simulcast of News/Talk 980 KMBZ Kansas City. The KUDL call letters were shipped off to Sacramento and KMBZ-FM moved in at 98.1. If the Kansas City experience is a guide, Audacy will simulcast KMOX on AM and FM for 2 or 3 years then split them off. In 2015 Entercom/Audacy moved the live and local weekday programming to FM and made the AM station syndicated talk (Talk 980). Only "Kansas City's Morning News" remains as a simulcast on both 980 and 98.1.

More recently in Kansas City, this past August Audacy blew up the AAA format of KRBZ (ALT 96.5 and previously 96.5 the Buzz) in favor of the sports format that is heard on "610 Sports" KCSP. The call letters were changed to KFNZ AM-FM and they are now called "96.5 the Fan". Right now there is a simulcast on 610 and 96.5 and if there are live sports conflicts one team moves to AM and the other stays on FM, as Audacy is the flagship for Royals baseball and Chiefs football and is the Kansas City outlet for Missouri Tigers and Kansas State Wildcats football and men's basketball.