- KKJO-FM
Infobox Radio Station
name = KKJO-FM
airdate =October 3 ,1988
frequency = 105.5 MHz
area =St. Joseph, Missouri
format =Hot adult contemporary /Top 40
owner =Eagle Broadcasting
erp = 100,000watt s
branding = K-JO 105-5
slogan =
class = C1
callsign_meaning = K K St. Joseph
website = [http://www.kjo1055.com/ K-JO 105-5 Web Site]KKJO is a
radio station inSt. Joseph, Missouri , broadcasting at 105.5 on the FM dial. The station airs ahot adult contemporary format with the brand name K-Jo 105.5History
A radio station in St. Joseph Missouri with the call letters, KRES originally debuted in 1947 at 1550 AM. The KKJO call letters were adopted in 1962, and KRES today is used by a country station in
Moberly, Missouri . Themiddle of the road format was dropped in 1966 forTop 40 . Calling themselves Tiger Radio, KKJO was St. Joseph's version of Top-40 radio akin to the pioneering sound at nearbyWHB in Kansas City. As the 70s passed, KKJO became more oriented to oldies, and into the 80s it had acquired more sports and talk oriented programming.The FM counterpart to KKJO, originally at 105.1 MHz, debuted in 1960. KUSN-FM simulcasted with Top 40 KUSN-AM at 1270Khz. in the wake of KKJO's success, KUSN AM-FM switched to a modern country format in 1968. KUSN-FM's call letters were changed to KSFT (K-Soft) in 1974 to reflect a new automated ["Beautiful Music"] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful_music] format which was adopted at the time. In 1977, KSFT (T-105) adopted an automated Top Forty format, moved to Album Rock in 1978, and when it was acquired from KUSN in 1979, it was switched to a successful country format.
KKJO swapped frequencies with KSFT on March 1st, 1989, moving the country format to the AM, and KKJO (K-JO 105) shifted to Contemporary Hit Radio (Top 40). In 1992, in the wake of the growing presence of rhythmic tracks on Top-40, KKJO became Hot Adult Contemporary while KSFT started broadcasting satellite formats, first adult standards and later oldies. In April 2000, KKJO moved to 105.5 as Susquehanna prepared to introduce a short-lived 80s music format, KFME. Today, KKJO retains their hot adult contemporary format while including tracks from the 70s and 80s, both in rotation and in hour-long segments nightly.
K-JO in the ratings
St. Joseph, while a separate television market from Kansas City, is part of Kansas City's
area of dominant influence inArbitron ratings. As such, KKJO rarely shows up in Kansas City's ratings. However, as both Kansas City and St. Joseph stations can broadcast as far as Topeka, Kansas, KKJO has registered marginal ratings in Topeka's semi-annual surveys.KKJO is currently programmed by Gregg Lynn, who does the morning show with BJ Scott. Cyndee Campbell, the Music Director, does Middays, Rick Reynolds in the Afternoons and David Fudge is on-air 7- midnight.
External links
* [http://www.kjo1055.com/ 105.5 website]
*FMQ|KKJO
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