Broadcast area | Cedar Rapids metropolitan area |
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Frequency | 95.7 MHz |
Branding | Hot 95.7 |
Programming | |
Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
Affiliations | Premiere Networks |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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KKRQ, KKSY-FM, KMJM, KXIC, WMT | |
History | |
First air date | February 14, 2008 (as KKSY) |
Former call signs |
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Technical information [1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 162475 |
Class | C3 |
ERP | 18,000 watts |
HAAT | 118 meters (387 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 42°5′56.00″N91°21′28.40″W / 42.0988889°N 91.3578889°W |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen live |
Website | hot957cr.iheart.com |
KOSY-FM (95.7 MHz) is a radio station licensed to Anamosa, Iowa, and serving the Cedar Rapids metropolitan area. It airs a top 40 (CHR) radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The studios are at "Broadcast Park" (which also houses CBS TV affiliate KGAN channel 2) near the intersection of Collins Road (Iowa Highway 100) and Old Marion Road NE in Cedar Rapids.
KOSY-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 18,000 watts. The transmitter is on Radio Road near Iowa Highway 13 in Marion. [2]
The station signed on the air on February 14, 2008 . Its call sign was KKSY and it aired a country music format, branded as "Kiss Country 95.7".
Clear Channel Communications began simulcasting KKSY's programming on WMT-FM (96.5 FM) on December 27, 2011. [3] [4] The programming moved to 96.5 FM exclusively on January 2, 2012 (with the KKSY-FM call letters following a few weeks later), and 95.7 FM began simulcasting the news/talk programming of sister station WMT, eventually changing call letters to KWMG. On March 1, 2013, KWMG changed its call letters to the current KOSY-FM.
On August 18, 2014, KOSY-FM dropped the WMT simulcast without warning, and flipped to Top 40 - CHR as "Y95.7". [5] This was the third Top 40 station in the Cedar Rapids market, along with KRQN and KZIA, as well as out of market stations KBEA and KKHQ, which are receivable in the Cedar Rapids area.
On October 2, 2017, KOSY-FM rebranded as "Hot 95.7". [6]
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