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KMPT
KMPT (930 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve East Missoula, Montana. The station is owned by Townsquare Media. It airs a talk radio format. History KYSS signed on the air June 27, 1959. Treasure State Broadcasting signed the station on after having acquired the construction permit, briefly known as KDOO, in 1958. KYSS-FM was started by the station in 1969. Prior to acquiring the new call sign, KMPT was known as KLCY. The station changed to its current call letters on January 1, 2008. Ownership In October 2007, a deal was reached for the station (then known as KLCY) to be acquired by GAP Broadcasting II LLC (Erik Hellum, president) from Clear Channel Communications as part of a 57 station deal with a total reported sale price of $74.78 million. What eventually became GapWest Broadcasting was folded into Townsquare Media Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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KMPT (930 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve East Missoula, Montana. The station is owned by Townsquare Media. It airs a talk radio format. History KYSS signed on the air June 27, 1959. Treasure State Broadcasting signed the station on after having acquired the construction permit, briefly known as KDOO, in 1958. KYSS-FM was started by the station in 1969. Prior to acquiring the new call sign, KMPT was known as KLCY. The station changed to its current call letters on January 1, 2008. Ownership In October 2007, a deal was reached for the station (then known as KLCY) to be acquired by GAP Broadcasting II LLC (Erik Hellum, president) from Clear Channel Communications iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company fou ... as part of a 57 station deal with a total reported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KYSS-FM
KYSS-FM (94.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Missoula, Montana, airing a country music format. The station is also one of two Country outlets in Missoula competing for listeners, the other being KGGL. Despite the "KISS" sounding call letters and it having once been owned by Clear Channel Communications, it has no relation to the Top 40 branding. It also shares the same Buck Owens-trademarked red, white & blue guitar logo as KNIX-FM/Phoenix, Arizona. History KYSS-FM came to air May 11, 1969. It was owned by the Garden City Broadcasting Corporation alongside KYSS (930 AM, now KMPT) and broadcast a beautiful music format on 100.1 MHz. In 1973, the FCC approved a major power increase for KYSS to 100,000 watts at 94.9 FM. The format changed to country, which it currently airs today. In October 2007, a deal was reached for KYSS to be acquired by GAP Broadcasting II LLC (Samuel Weller, president) from Clear Channel Communications as part of a 57 station deal with a total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KGRZ
KGRZ (1450 AM, "Griz Sports 1450 and 92.7") is a radio station licensed to serve Missoula, Montana, United States. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and licensed to Townsquare License, LLC. It airs a sports format. KGRZ is Missoula's second-oldest operating radio station, having gone on the air as KXLL in 1948. After a financial failure, the station broadcast a Christian format for five years in the 1960s, then returned to music formats as primarily a country music outlet between 1968 and 1997. History KXLL On June 3, 1946, Western Montana Associates applied for a construction permit to build a new radio station in Missoula on 630 kHz. This was amended to 1450 kHz and granted on November 14 of that year. The owners of the permittee were three men, one from Butte and two from Helena. The station remained unbuilt by May 1947, but it had been rolled into the growing Z Bar Network, with affiliation with NBC and the call sign of KXLL (to match the XL designations of the othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KYLT
KYLT (1340 AM broadcasting, AM, "1340 KYLT") is a radio station licensed to serve Missoula, Montana. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and licensed to Townsquare Media, LLC. It airs a sports radio, sports format. The station was assigned the KYLT call letters by the Federal Communications Commission. Programming Notable local programming includes the "Berg in the Morning" show for one hour each weekday morning. Notable weekday syndicated programming includes sports talk shows from Fox Sports Radio. Ownership In June 2006, KYLT was acquired by Cherry Creek Radio from Fisher Radio Regional Group as part of a 24 station deal with a total reported sale price of $33.3 million. References External linksFCC History Cards for KYLT Sports radio stations in the United States Radio stations in Missoula, Montana, YLT Radio stations estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Montana ...
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Montana, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * KBCK References {{Navboxes , title = Montana radio station regional navigation boxes , list = {{Billings Radio {{Butte Radio {{Glendive Radio {{Great Falls Radio {{Helena Radio {{Kalispell-Flathead Valley Radio {{Missoula Radio {{Williston radio Radio stations Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GapWest Broadcasting
Gap Broadcasting Group was a group of companies that owned around 116 broadcast stations (including 1 low-power television station and 5 low-power stations) in 23 radio markets in northwestern and central southern United States in the late 2000s. Managed by Oaktree Capital Management, the group acquired mainly stations from Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia as of late 2014) in the mid-sized radio markets that Clear Channel was exiting. All Gap Broadcasting Group stations were acquired by Oaktree's Townsquare Media in August 2010. Operating companies * Gap Broadcasting, which became Gap Central Broadcasting and was also known as Gap I, was based in Dallas, Texas and acquired stations in the south-central states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. It also owned Class A television station KJEF-CA at Jennings, Louisiana. * GapWest Broadcasting, also known as Gap II, was based in Greenwood Village, Colorado and acquired stations in 13 markets in Idaho, Minnesota, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KZOQ-FM
KZOQ-FM (100.1 MHz, "Z100") is a commercial radio station in Missoula, Montana. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and licensed to Townsquare License, LLC. KZOQ airs a classic rock Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, prima ... music format. Featuring The Brian and Chris Show in the mornings with Brian Lee and Chris Wolfe. Z100 is Missoulas heritage rock station being one of the big four, the first four commercial FM stations to come to Missoula. Z100 played album rock with a 50/50 mix of classic and current rock music. For a time in the 1990s Z100's music mix leaned towards alternative and pop rocks giving it a Modern Adult sound at times. With 96.3 The blaze coming in, filling the shoes for New rock, Z100 became classic rock on the same day the Blaze premiered. For y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBAZ
KBAZ (96.3 FM, "The Blaze") is a commercial radio station in Hamilton, Montana, broadcasting to the Missoula, Montana, area. KBAZ airs a mainstream rock music format. History On November 27, 1968, the Bitter Root Broadcasting Company, owners of KLYQ (1240 AM) obtained a construction permit for a new FM radio station on 95.9 MHz in Hamilton. It began on February 11, 1969, and was used to extend the then-daytime station's service to the nighttime hours. By 1980, KLYQ-FM was programming an easy listening format separate from country music on the AM frequency. Stereo broadcasting began in late 1980, and by 1981 the station was airing adult contemporary music during daytime hours and Top 40 at night. At the start of 1982, the KLYQ stations were sold to Alexander Communications, Inc. That company filed for bankruptcy in 1984, and the properties were conveyed back to their previous owner, Luin K. Dexter, who then sold both to Bob Massey, a native of Missoula. When Massey sold th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KGGL
KGGL (93.3 FM, "Eagle 93.3") is a commercial radio station in Missoula, Montana, airing a country music format. It is owned by Townsquare Media. History KDXT On October 15, 1975, Rex Jensen filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit to build a new radio station on 93.3 MHz in Missoula, with transmitter on Big Sky Mountain. The permit was granted on May 25, 1976, with the commission dismissing complaints by several other Missoula broadcasters that the new facility would cause interference to their operations. While the station was intended to launch that fall, equipment delivery and bad weather in the eastern United States prompted the project to be shelved for the winter; KDXT made its debut on April 29, 1977. Having been transferred to the Jensen Broadcasting Company (owned by Rex and his brother Jack), the station started with an automated rock/adult contemporary hybrid format. The Jensens sold the station in February 1979 to a joint ventur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KGVO (AM)
KGVO (1290 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to serve Missoula, Montana. The station is owned by Townsquare Media. It airs a news/talk format. The station was assigned the KGVO call letters by the Federal Radio Commission on March 17, 1931. On May 6, 1932, the FRC authorized KGVO to move from 1420 kHz to 1200 kHz and to change to unlimited operation rather than its previous 10 a.m.-6 p.m. schedule. At that time, KGVO had 100 watts power. KGVO has been the flagship station of Montana Grizzlies football and men's basketball for decades; it frequently brands itself as "Home of the Grizzlies." Until 2017, KGVO simulcast on KGVO-FM at 101.5 FM, which was used to fill in the gaps when the AM station adjusted its coverage at night. However, on February 2, 2017, KGVO-FM broke off to air an alternative rock format as KAMM-FM. KGVO then began simulcasting on a low-powered translator at 98.3 FM, and Hamilton's KLYQ began simulcasting KGVO. Ownership In October 2007, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clear Channel Communications
iHeartMedia, Inc., formerly CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It is the holding company of iHeartCommunications, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications, Inc.), a company founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, B. J. "Red" McCombs in 1972, and later taken private by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners through a leveraged buyout in 2008. As a result of this buyout, Clear Channel Communications, Inc., began to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CC Media Holdings, Inc. On September 16, 2014, CC Media Holdings, Inc. was rebranded iHeartMedia, Inc., and Clear Channel Communications, Inc., became iHeartCommunications, Inc. Overview iHeartMedia, Inc. specializes in radio broadcasting, podcasting, Digital media, digital and live events through Division (business), division iHeartMedia (sans "Inc." suffix; formerly Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Clear Channel Radio, et al.) and subsidiary iHeartMedia an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
