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. The Hawk carries the syndicated ''

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'' morning show and during the

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season, The Hawk airs ''

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'' games. The Hawk's

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s and offices are on Transworld Drive in Stockton. KHKK's

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History

The KHKK license has its roots in KTRB-FM, the sister station to KTRB radio. The station went on the air in 1948, and simulcasted its sister AM station. By late 1970, KTRB-FM was programming a combination of AM simulcast, and night time Progressive Rock programming. In May 1973, the station was sold to Pappas Broadcasting, along with its AM sister station. At that time KTRB-FM, relaunched as KHOP. KHOP programmed a combination of simulcast of sister station KTRB (overnight hours and early mornings), brokered religious block programming (early mornings through late afternoons), ethnic block programming (late afternoons through 10:00PM) and late night Jazz (10:00PM-Midnight) from May 1973 through March 1978. In March 1978, KHOP re-launched as an automated, tightly-formatted Album Rock format and identified as "Rock 104." In November 1979, KHOP gradually moved to a live Top 40 format and evolved to full-on CHR as "Stereo 104." The format remained in effect until November 2, 1992. It switched to

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on November 2, 1992 and was known as Rock 104. On April 23, 1996, Rock 104 moved to its new frequency at 95.1 FM, and after a few days of an all-

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, it switched formats on April 29, 1996 to

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and changed its

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to KROW, Arrow 104.1 "All Rock & Roll Oldies". On August 5, 1996, KROW became KHKK "The Hawk", retaining the classic hits format. On December 1, 2000, The Hawk moved to a harder-edged

format, while

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moved over from its sister station at 95.1 FM. Richard Perry is the Hawk's Program Director, and serves as disc jockey from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. He was formerly employed at the legendary, original KDJK (at 95.1 FM) as production director as well as co-host with Beaver Brown on the morning show. KDJK simulcasts this station on FM frequency 103.9 MHz, serving

. *The

Show - Weekday Mornings *Classic Rock Request Lunch - an hour of requests at noon on weekdays *Get The Led Out - a long set of

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at 7pm every weeknight *Classic Rock Block Party Weekend - All weekend long, beginning from 6PM on Fridays until 12AM on Mondays. Three songs in a row by a famous classic rock act at the top of each hour. *Twofer Tuesday - back-to-back songs from each artist on Tuesdays *Steve Gorman Rock - the Ex- Black Crowes Drummer hosts a show weekday nights *

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's Top Rock Countdown - Saturday Nights at 10pm *Las Vegas Raiders Football - During the

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regular season, the Hawk is one of the 20 stations that broadcast

games.

References

External links

The Hawk websiteThe Bob & Tom Show

FCC History Cards for KHKK
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