KTHI (107.1 FM, "107.1 K-Hits") is a commercial

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located in Caldwell, Idaho, broadcasting to the

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, area. KTHI airs a

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History

The station launched in 1983 as a

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station branded as "C-107" with the KCID-FM call letters. In 1997, the station flipped to a

Modern AC Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet sto ...

format and was rebranded as "107.1 CID". In May 1999, the station flipped to Adult Contemporary and was rebranded as "Star 107.1". In 2002, KCID-FM changed the call letters to KTHI and flipped to a classic hits format and rebranded now known as "107.1 K-Hits".

Ownership Changes

Journal Communications Journal Media Group (formerly Journal Communications) was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based newspaper publishing company. The company's roots were first established in 1882 as the owner of its namesake, the ''Milwaukee Journal'', and expanded into br ...

(KTHI's former owner) and the

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is he ...

announced on July 30, 2014, that the two companies would merge to create a new broadcast company under the E.W. Scripps Company name that will own the two companies' broadcast properties, including KTHI. The transaction is slated to be completed in 2015, pending shareholder and regulatory approvals. In January 2018, Scripps announced that it would sell all of its radio stations. In August 2018,

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announced that it would acquire Scripps' Boise & Tucson clusters for $8 million. The sale was completed on December 12.

References

External links

KTHI official website
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