KHUT

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KHUT
Broadcast area Wichita metropolitan area
Frequency 102.9 MHz
BrandingCountry 102.9
Programming
Format Country music
Affiliations Jones Radio Network
Ownership
OwnerEagle Communications, Inc.
KHMY, KWBW
History
First air date
March 16, 1972(53 years ago) (1972-03-16)
Call sign meaning
Hutchinson
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 18068
Class C1
ERP 98,000 watts
HAAT 131.0 meters (429.8 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
 38°2′39.00″N98°0′56.00″W / 38.0441667°N 98.0155556°W / 38.0441667; -98.0155556
Links
Public license information
Website Country1029.com

KHUT (102.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting a country music radio format. [2] Licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas, the station serves the Wichita metropolitan area and is owned by Eagle Communications, Inc.

Contents

KHUT goes by the slogan "Country 102.9, Hutchinson's Country Station." It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 98,000 watts, broadcasting since 1972. The transmitter is on Whiteside Road at West Clark Road in Hutchinson. [3]

Talent

Weekday mornings are hosted by Casey Osburn.

Manny handles middays from 10am to 3pm.

Randy McKay is on-air in afternoons from 3pm to 7pm. Randy has been a radio announcer since 1979. Randy is also Country 102.9's Program Director and Music Director. He was with KHUT from 1989 to 1992 left for a stint in Salina, KS and returned in 2000.

DJ Dan Michaels is on in the evenings from 7pm to midnight.

Marc Jacobs, News Director, delivers the morning news on Country 102.9 and also oversees news on KHMY and KWBW, as well as Hutch Post.com, Eagle's growing local online news source.

KHUT is also the flagship station for the Hutchinson Community College Blue Dragons football and basketball teams. The Country 102.9 Blue Dragon sports crew includes Sports Director Sean Boston, Daren Dunn, Dan Naccarato, Rob Dreher and Steve Carpenter.

History

KHUT's predecessor, KWBW-AM was the first commercial AM station in central Kansas. A sister station to KHMY-FM and KHUTY-FM, KWBW-AM began broadcasting June 15, 1947 at 1450. MHz. KWBW-FM began broadcasting at 98.5 in 2013. The stations were owned by William Wyse. [4]

On the air originally as KWBW-FM, the station played country music from 1972 to 1978. After a short-lived switch to a Beautiful Music format, the station changed call letters to KHUT and returned to Country music in 1979. Owned originally by Nation's Center Broadcasting, the founding company of sister station KWBW, KHUT was purchased by Beach-Schmidt Communications in 1989. Beach-Schmidt is now employee owned Eagle Communications headquartered in Hays, Kansas.

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KHUT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "KHUT Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KHUT
  4. ↑ "KWBW-FM Makes Debut" (PDF). Broadcasting. June 16, 1947. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
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