KAIX (88.3 FM) is a non-commercial

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licensed to serve

Casper, Wyoming Casper is a city in, and the county seat of, Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. Casper is the second-largest city in the state, with the population at 59,038 as of the 2020 census. Only Cheyenne, the state capital, is larger. Casper is nic ...

, United States. The station is owned by the

Educational Media Foundation Educational Media Foundation (formerly EMF Broadcasting, abbreviated EMF) is an American nonprofit Christian media ministry based in Franklin, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. EMF is the parent company of K-LOVE and Air1—the world's largest ...

and airs its Air1 Christian worship music network. The station broadcast an

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music format until August 12, 2010. Subsequently, operating a religious format, the station was taken silent on November 8, 2019, and sold to the

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on August 22,

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. The new station was assigned call letters KKRR by the FCC on September 9, 2008. KKRR received its license to cover from the FCC on August 27, 2008. Cedar Cove Broadcasting acquired KKRR's license from original licensee WCN, Inc. effective September 11, 2019, at a purchase price of $50,000. The station changed its call sign to KEZF on October 5, 2019, and then to KAIX on February 8, 2020. Cedar Cove then traded the station to EMF in exchange for translator K214DI (90.7 FM), which had been Air1's transmitter in Casper, and $50,000. The exchange was consummated on May 11, 2020.

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