KHTH (101.7 FM) is a

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Santa Rosa, California Santa Rosa (Spanish language, Spanish for "Rose of Lima, Saint Rose") is a city and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, Sonoma County, in the North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area ...

, broadcasting a

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(Top 40/CHR)

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. It is owned by Lawrence Amaturo.

History

The station was originally KXFX and previously had an active rock format branded as 101.7 The Fox. On March 24, 2011, the call letters changed from KXFX to KHTH and changed from an

active rock Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...

format to a CHR format as Hot 101.7. On July 30, 2022, the station's HD2 subchannel changed its format from classic hits a "K-Hits 107.9" to oldies as "Oldies 107.9".

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