KKSY-FM

For the former KKSY in Anamosa, Iowa, see KOSY-FM.

KKSY-FM

City	Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Branding	96.5 Kiss Country
Slogan	Iowa's New Country
Frequency	96.5 MHz
First air date	February 27, 1963 (1963-02-27)
Format	Country
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	158 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	73594
Transmitter coordinates	42°1′40.00″N 91°38′25.00″W / 42.0277778°N 91.6402778°W / 42.0277778; -91.6402778 (WMT-FM)
Callsign meaning	KisS CountrY.
Former callsigns	WMT-FM (1963-2012)
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.)
Sister stations	KKRQ, KMJM, KOSY-FM, 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 iHeartMedia, Inc..

History

KKSY-FM signed on February 27, 1963, as WMT-FM at 96.5 FM with an easy listening, jazz and classical music format. There were 90-minute classical music segments in the morning and evening with regular programs of jazz and music from Broadway musicals. Some of those early announcers were Keith Webster, Bill Dutcher, Don John Ross, Bill Grubbe, and Jim Wicks as well as other WMT announcers who took the helm of hosting on FM. In the early days, programming was totally separate from WMT radio but in the late 1960s, WMT-FM started simulcasting the 15-minute newscasts of WMT AM 600 several times a day. In the 1970s, it became a full-time "beautiful music" station before adopting an adult contemporary format in the early 1980s in an era when many beautiful music stations went to a soft rock or more 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. Until the 1970s, the studios of WMT radio was located on the fifth floor of the historic Paramount Theater building in downtown Cedar Rapids.^[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]

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. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
↑ "WMT Shares KKSY's Country Format". All Access. December 27, 2011. Retrieved December 27, 2011.
↑ Venta, Lance (January 2, 2012). "WMT-FM Becomes Kiss Country, 95.7 Becomes WMT-FM". RadioInsight. Retrieved January 2, 2012.

External links

Official website

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Radio-Locator information on KKSY

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KKSY

Radio stations in the Cedar Rapids–Iowa City market

By AM frequency	600 800 860 910 1040 1360 1380 1450 1540 1600 1630

By FM frequency	88.3 89.1 89.7 90.9 91.7 92.3 93.1 94.1 95.7 96.5 98.1 99.1 99.7 100.7 101.9 102.9 104.5 105.7 106.1 107.1 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.45 162.475

By callsign	KBEA-FM KCCK-FM KCII KCII-FM KCJJ KDAT KFMW KGYM KHAK KJY64 KKHQ-FM KKRQ KKSY-FM KMJM KMRY KNWS-FM KOKZ KOSY-FM KRNA KRQN KRUI-FM KSKB KSUI KUNI KWPC KXEL KXGM KXIC KZIA WHO WMT WSUI WXL61

Nearby radio markets Burlington Dubuque Des Moines–Ames Fort Dodge Ottumwa Quad Cities Waterloo–Cedar Falls See also List of radio stations in Iowa

Country radio stations in the state of Iowa

Stations	KBKB – Fort Madison KBKB-FM – Fort Madison/Burlington KBOB – Davenport KBOE-FM – Oskaloosa KCHE – Cherokee KCOB-FM – Newton KCSI – Red Oak KCTN – Garnavillo/Elkader KCZE – New Hampton KDLS – Perry KDMG – Burlington KDST – Dyersville KGRA – Jefferson/Perry KHAK – Cedar Rapids KHKI – Des Moines KIAI – Mason City KIAQ – Clarion/Fort Dodge KICD-FM – Spencer KIHK – Rock Valley KIIC – Albia KIKD – Lake City KILJ – Mount Pleasant KILR-FM – Estherville KIWA – Sheldon KIWA-FM – Sheldon KJJY – West Des Moines KKIA – Ida Grove KKRF – Stuart KKSY-FM – Cedar Rapids KKYY – Whiting KMAQ – Maquoketa KMCH – Manchester KMGO – Centerville KMZN – Oskaloosa KNEI-FM – Waukon KNIA – Knoxville KOAK – Red Oak KOEL – Oelwein KOEL-FM – Cedar Falls/Waterloo KQCS – DeWitt/Davenport KRKN – Eldon/Ottumwa KSIB-FM – Creston KSMA-FM – Osage/Mason City KSOM – Audubon/Atlantic KWAY – Waverly KWMT – Fort Dodge KWPC – Muscatine KXIA – Marshalltown KXKT – Glenwood/Omaha, Nebraska WJOD – Asbury/Dubuque WLLR-FM – Davenport

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Iowa

iHeartMedia

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia

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