WKHX-FM

WKHX-FM
City Marietta, Georgia
Broadcast area Atlanta metropolitan area
Branding Kicks 101.5
Slogan The 90's To Now
Atlanta's Number 1 For Country
Frequency 101.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
101.5 HD-2 for a mix of Country and Southern Rock
First air date 1968 (as WBIE-FM)
Format Country
Audience share 4.0 (Wi'08, R&R[1])
ERP 100,000 watts
HAAT 329 meters
Class C0
Facility ID 73161
Transmitter coordinates 33°48′26″N 84°20′22″W / 33.80722°N 84.33944°W / 33.80722; -84.33944Coordinates: 33°48′26″N 84°20′22″W / 33.80722°N 84.33944°W / 33.80722; -84.33944
Callsign meaning KHX = "Kicks"
Former callsigns WBIE-FM (1968–1981)
WKHX (1981–1987)
Affiliations Cumulus Media Networks, Premiere Radio Networks
Owner Cumulus Media
(Radio License Holdings LLC)
Sister stations WYAY, WWWQ, WNNX, W255CJ, W250BC
Webcast Listen Live
Listen Live via iHeart
Website kicks1015.com

WKHX-FM, known as "Kicks 101.5", is an Atlanta FM radio station that plays country music. Its city of license is Marietta, Georgia. It is owned by Cumulus Media. Its studios are located in Sandy Springs near the Georgia Highway 400 and Interstate 285 interchange, and transmits from a site in unincorporated DeKalb County, just west of Emory University.

Former on-air staff

Command Master Chief Richard Rose, assigned to the guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN 729), talks on the air during the 101.5 FM Kicks morning show about Atlanta Navy Week 2010.

History

Prior to becoming WKHX, 101.5 was country music station WBIE-FM (debuting in 1959). It was a companion to the AM station WBIE 1080 kHz (later WCOB). [2] The station manager at the time, James M. Wilder, has a technology laboratory building named after him at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta. "Kicks" debuted in 1981 after Capital Cities Communications purchased the station. WKHX used to simulcast on AM 590, which is now Radio Disney. In 1995, ABC bought then rival country station WYAY 106.7, which is now "All News 106.7". The station was acquired by Citadel Broadcasting in 2007, and became a Cumulus Media station after that company purchased Citadel in 2011. In October 2011, WKHX changed its format from playing only "new country" music to mixing in older hits from the 1990s to the present.[3]

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