Previous Format: Active Rock
New Format: 80′s Rock
Date & Time Of Change: December 29, 2009 at 10:00am
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Aircheck contributed by Ryan Beam

Previous Format: Spanish Sports
New Format: Modern Rock
Date & Time Of Change: November 23, 2009 at 12:00am
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Related Changes: 105.3 KLGH Becomes The Spy

Previous Format: Sports
New Format: Modern Rock
Date & Time Of Change: August 23, 2002 at 7:00pm
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Related Changes: 105.3 The Spy Returns

WWLS-FM (WWLS The Sports Animal) becomes Country K-Bull 104.9 (now KQBL). The sports format continues at WWLS-AM 640 and KLGH-FM 105.3 (which began simulcasting The Sports Animal on April 1) It was pretty anti-climatic. A commercial was interrupted on 104.9 then the new Legal fired up. K-Bull has begin a war with Hot Country KTST (101.9 The Twister). Each station now claims to playing 31-in-a-row.

Many thanks to OKCRadio.net for contributing this switchover, logos, and summary .

Citadel Broadcasting’s “The Sports Animal” (WWLS 640) began to simulcast its Sports-Talk format on KLGH 105.3. The station’s current FM simulcast, WWLS-FM 104.9, while still simulcasting WWLS at the moment, would flip to country a few days later. Though the dial position of the FM simulcast is changing, the station continues to broadcast on WWLS 640.

Until this week, KLGH was a Contemporary Christian station. Citadel had agreed to purchase the it from Kingfisher County Broadcasting for $3.1 million. KLGH’s metro coverage is significantly less than that of WWLS-FM, as the 105.3 signal only reaches the northwestern suburbs of Oklahoma City. This signal, however, fills a hole in WWLS 640′s directional antenna pattern that WWLS-FM could not. Listeners in downtown Oklahoma City who cannot receive KLGH can still hear the station on 640 AM

Many thanks to OKCityRadio.net for contributing this switchover, the logos, and RadioEmporium.net for the summary .

This station had been KTNT and at 97.7 since 1988. It moved to 97.9 to boost its power to 6,000 watts. One year before the flip, then-owner Caribou Broadcasting, relaunched it as KCYI “The City 97.9″ making it a Urban AC/Jazz hybrid.

Caribou was bought by Citadel Broadcasting (along with four other stations in Oklahoma City) in January of 2000.

On Monday, January 24 at noon, the station began stunting with a computerized voice counting down. Along with the countdown were jokes and jabs at the competition. Examples:

“Linda Cavanaugh is a fox.” (She is a longtime news anchor at KFOR-TV 4 in Oklahoma City)

“Tell someone about this. In fact, someone tell Mike McCoy” (McCoy is the long time program director of CHR KJYO “KJ-103″)

“Jeff Couch to Classic Rock courtesy phone”. (Couch is the PD of AC KMGL “Magic 104″ and Classic Rock KRXO “107.7″)

Finally, on Thursday, January 27, 2000, the stunting ended and at 6:45 a.m. “Wild 97-Dot-9″ was born. As heavy snow hit the Oklahoma City area, the new station
signed on with Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing.” The next month, the station’s call letters were changed to KKWD.

The station has seemingly done its job. It knocked Clear Channel CHR KJYO from its stronghold of top spot in the ratings enabling Citadel sister rock station KATT to climb to number one. Interestingly, in the Fall 2001 Arbitrons, KATT held on to number one,
followed by KKWD at number two.

Many thanks to OKCityRadio.net for contributing this switchover, the logos, and the summary