KAAN-FM (95.5

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broadcasting a

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Bethany, Missouri Bethany is a city in, and the county seat of, Harrison County, Missouri, United States, approximately midway between Kansas City and Des Moines on Interstate 35. The population was 2,915 at the 2020 census. History The settlement of Harrison Co ...

, United States, the station is currently owned by

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and features programming from

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. KAAN-FM first

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the air on October 27, 1978. The

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tower is located six miles west of Bethany on U.S. Route 136 at West 140th Avenue.Radio-Locator.com/KAAN-FM
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(ERP) of 50,000

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s. It covers much of Northwestern

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and some of Southern

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Ownership

On March 1, 2007, it was announced that

GoodRadio.TV Good Radio Networks LLC, doing business as GoodRadio.TV, was a West Palm Beach, Florida based radio ownership group headed by former Pax president Dean Goodman. Partners in this venture include former NAB Chairman Eddie Fritz, and former found ...

LLC planned to buy The Shepherd Group of radio stations in Missouri. The Shepherd Group operated 16 small-market radio stations in Missouri. The deal was reportedly worth $30.6 million. Dean Goodman formed the new company, GoodRadio.TV. He is the former president and chief executive officer of the television broadcasting company ION Media Networks Inc. Goodman stepped down from ION Media Networks in October 2006. The Shepherd Group included KJEL-FM and

KBNN KBNN (750 AM broadcasting, AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Established in 1973, the station is licensed to Lebanon, Missouri, United States, and serves the Springfield, Missouri, area. The station is owned by Al ...

in Lebanon; KJFF in Festus; KREI and

KTJJ KTJJ is a radio station broadcasting from Farmington, Missouri. KTJJ has an extensive coverage area, heard from Jefferson City to south-eastern Illinois from west to east, and St. Louis to the Missouri-Arkansas border from north to south. Program ...

in Farmington;

KRES KRES (104.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic country music format. Licensed to Moberly, Missouri, United States, the station serves the Columbia, Missouri, area. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha ...

and

KWIX KWIX (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news talk format. Licensed to Moberly, Missouri, United States, the station serves the Moberly area. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC and ...

in Moberly;

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in Macon; KIIK,

KOZQ-FM KOZQ-FM (102.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter ...

KJPW KJPW (1390 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news talk information format. Licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States, the station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC, and features programming ...

and

KFBD-FM KFBD-FM (97.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, United States. The station is currently owned by Alpha Media, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. KFBD-FM and its AM sister station, KJPW, are the dominant news radi ...

in Waynesville; KAAN-FM and KAAN in Bethany; and

KMRN KMRN (1360 AM, "U.S. Country 1360") is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Cameron, Missouri. The station, founded in 1971, is owned by Alpha Media and the broadcast license is held by Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Prog ...

and

KKWK KKWK (100.1 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a classic rock music format. Licensed to Cameron, Missouri, United States, the station serves the rural areas north of the Kansas City metropolitan area as well as serves as a rimshot int ...

in Cameron. In December 2013, GoodRadio.TV merged into Digity, LLC. Effective February 25, 2016, Digity and its 124 radio stations were acquired by

for $264 million.

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