KKRQ

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KKRQ
Broadcast area Iowa City-Cedar Rapids
Frequency 100.7 MHz
Branding100.7 The Fox
Programming
Format Classic rock
Affiliations Westwood One
Ownership
Owner
KOSY-FM, KKSY-FM, KMJM, KXIC, WMT
History
First air date
1966 (as KXIC-FM)
Former call signs
  • KXIC-FM (1966–1975)
  • KICG (1975–1980)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 29076
Class C1
ERP 100,000 watts
HAAT 162 meters (531 ft)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website kkrq.iheart.com

KKRQ (100.7 FM) is a classic rock station in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City areas. Known as "100.7 The Fox", the station is operated by iHeartMedia and licensed to Iowa City, Iowa.

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Music on "100.7 The Fox" includes hits from the 1960s through the 1990s, and uses the slogan "The Corridor's Classic Rock".

KKRQ broadcasts with a power of 100,000 watts, with transmitter and tower located outside on the north side of Iowa City. Its studios had been co-located with sister station KXIC (800 AM) in that same facility, but KKRQ has since moved to iHeartMedia's offices at Broadcast Park in northeast Cedar Rapids.

History

The station signed on as KXIC-FM in 1966, and is the FM sister station to KXIC.

The station, now known as KKRQ, would flip to oldies on September 18, 1989. [2] The format would later evolve to classic hits.

At some point after 2010, KKRQ switched to a classic hits format with elements of classic rock (similar to WROR, Boston and WJJK, Indianapolis), playing a variety of music from the 1960s through to the 2000s. At night the station switched purely to classic rock with Sixx Sense with Nikki Sixx.[ citation needed ] In 2021, KKRQ dropped the classic hits portion of their playlist and segued into a full time classic rock format emphasizing the "Classic Rock" slogan.

Since 1997, KKRQ has carried The Bob & Tom Show from sister station WFBQ in Indianapolis. [3]

On March 31, 2023 an EF-2 Tornado knocked down the station's radio tower forcing the station off the air. The station plans on rebuilding their tower and using a temporary transmitter to broadcast in the meantime. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KKRQ". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ Dee Ann Rexroat, "Area radio station giving heavier dose of oldies," The Cedar Rapids Gazette, October 6, 1989.
  3. ↑ "Resilient 'Bob & Tom Show' receives multi-year contract extension".
  4. ↑ m.facebook.com https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=6332265880159238&id=124750757577479&mibextid=Nif5oz . Retrieved April 4, 2023.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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