KRAV-FM (96.5

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, "Mix 96.5"), is a

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, owned by

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. It airs a

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, playing a mix of pop hits from the 1990s to today. Its studios and offices are located in the Cox Broadcasting Complex on South Memorial Drive, near

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in Tulsa. The

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is on Route 97 in the Osage Reservation north of Sand Springs. Mix 96.5 is also heard on Cox Digital Cable channel 1984.

History

On November 1, 1962, KRAV first

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. It was owned by the Boston Broadcasting Company, with George R. Kravis II as president and general manager. (The

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is the first four letters of Kravis' last name.) A stand-alone FM radio station was rare in the 1960s, when there were few FM receivers; most FM stations were co-owned by AM stations, simply

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ing the same programming. At first, KRAV's effective radiated power was 20,000

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s from a 330-foot-tower, giving it a fraction of the coverage it has today. In 1966, Kravis bought AM station KFMJ (now

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), a 1,000 watt

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, to pair with KRAV. It aired

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music, while KRAV continued with its

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/ middle of the road format. In the 1970s, KRAV moved to an

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format, while KFMJ switched to a

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format. In 1976, KRAV moved from AC to a

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format as ''FM96 KRAV'', also calling itself ''V96 FM''. In the 1990s, KRAV's power was boosted to 100,000 watts, though broadcasting from a 137-foot-tall tower. In 1996, Kravis sold KRAV and KFMJ to

for $5.5 million. Cox continued the Hot AC format on KRAV, while switching KFMJ to adult standards and

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as KGTO. KRAV and KGTO moved into studios on South Yale Avenue, along with co-owned

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. KGTO would be sold to Perry Broadcasting several years later. In 2009, KRAV was relocated to a much taller tower shared with Cox's other FM and TV stations, at in

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in Sand Springs.Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2010 page D-445
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border to the suburbs of

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