KHKK
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Not to be confused with KKHK
KKHK
Not to be confused with KHKK.For information about prior use of KKHK, please see KQMT, KYYS and KBOQ.KKHK is a commercial adult hits radio station in Carmel, California, broadcasting to the Santa Cruz-Monterey-Salinas, California area on 95.5 FM.95.5 FM had been a classical music station branded...

.
KHKK is the call sign
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...

 of The Hawk, a radio station located in Modesto, California
Modesto, California
Modesto is a city in, and is the county seat of, Stanislaus County, California. With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, Modesto ranks as the 18th largest city in the state of California....

. The Hawk's frequency is 104.1 FM. The Hawk is dedicated to classic rock
Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

 music, and their slogan is "Bob and Tom in the morning, and classic rock with no repeats all day." The Hawk's DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...

s never play the same song twice during the day.

The Hawk was KHOP, which was a Contemporary Hits station during the 1980s but switched to Album Oriented Rock on November 2, 1992 and was known as Rock 104. On April 23, 1996, Rock 104 moved to its new frequency at 95.1 FM and after a few days of an All Elvis music stunt, switched formats on April 29, 1996 to Classic Hits
Classic hits
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes rock and pop music from 1964 to 1989. The term is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym for the adult hits format, but is more accurately characterized as a contemporary style of the oldies format...

and changed its call sign
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...

 to KROW and was known as ARROW 104.1 "All Rock & Roll Oldies".

On August 5, 1996, they changed their logo to The Hawk and slogan to "All Rock & Roll Hits", but retained the Classic Hits
Classic hits
Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes rock and pop music from 1964 to 1989. The term is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym for the adult hits format, but is more accurately characterized as a contemporary style of the oldies format...

 format. On December 1, 2000, The Hawk tweaked its format from Classic Hits to a harder edged Classic Rock format while The Bob & Tom Show
The Bob & Tom Show
The Bob & Tom Show is a syndicated US radio program established by Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold at radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis, Indiana, March 7, 1983, and syndicated nationally since January 6, 1995....

 moved over from its sister station at 95.1 FM. Richard Perry is the Hawk's Program Director, and serves as disc jockey from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. He was formally employed at the legendary, original KDJK-95.1 as production director as well as cohost with Beaver Brown on the morning show.
Other D.J.s include...
Hunter 2p-6p

Randy Maranz 6p-10p

and Jeff Adams 10p-2a

All with a long history in Modesto Radio.

KDJK simulcasts this station on FM frequency 103.9 MHz.

During the NFL
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 regular season, the Hawk is one of the twenty stations that broadcast Oakland Raiders
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

games.

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