KYKY, originally known as KSTL-FM, KRCH and later, KSLQ-FM

KSLQ-FM

KSLQ-FM is a radio station broadcasting a Hot AC format. Licensed to Washington, Missouri, USA, the station serves Warren, Franklin, and St. Charles Counties in Missouri, as well as parts of western St. Louis County.. The station is currently owned by Y2k, Inc....

 prior to October 1, 1982, is an FM

FM broadcasting

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 radio station

Radio station

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 serving the St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri

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, Missouri

Missouri

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 radio market. The current format of the station is Adult Top 40. It operates at 98.1 MHz. KYKY is owned by CBS Radio

CBS Radio

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, which also owns soft rock

Soft rock

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 station KEZK-FM and the market's dominant news, talk and sports station, KMOX-AM

KMOX (AM)

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. KYKY operates from studios located on Market St., east of U.S. 40/I-64, and transmits from an FM radio tower in Crestwood, Missouri

Crestwood, Missouri

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.

History

KYKY began as KSTL-FM around 1960 was sold in 1967 and changed to KRCH-FM, but changed its call-letters to KSLQ five years later when it was purchased by Charter Communications. Charter had owned legendary AM Top 40 stations such as KCBQ in San Diego and WOKY in Milwaulkee and was enjoying huge ratings with WDRQ-FM in Detroit in the fast growing FM Top 40 format of the 1970s. KSLQ later adjusted its format to adult contemporary around 1981 and the call letters were changed once more in October 1982 to the current KYKY (Y98). Shortly thereafter, KYKY was purchased by EZ Communications who maintained the Adult Contemporary format.

In the early 1990s, EZ Communications was purchased by ARS Radio who later sold the station to Infinity Broadcasting, later known as CBS Radio, and shifted to Hot AC. Since March 1979, KYKY has been the home of the Phillips & Company (originally Phillips & Wall) morning show, hosted by long-time St. Louis radio host Guy Phillips. Phillips was inducted into the St. Louis Radio Hall of fame in 2005. In January 2010, KYKY's slogan was changed from "Your Music, Your Y98" to "More Music. Better Variety". As of December 2010, KYKY is making changes to become more Adult Top 40 leaning and has changed their slogan to "Today's Best Music".

Special events

In September 2005, KYKY, KEZK

KEZK

KEZK-FM is a radio station broadcasting a Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to St. Louis, Missouri, USA, the station serves the St. Louis and southwestern Illinois areas. The station is currently owned by CBS Radio. and features programing from Westwood One...

 (Soft Rock, 102.5FM), and television partners KSDK

KSDK

KSDK, Channel 5, is the NBC-affiliated television station in St. Louis, Missouri. KSDK is owned and operated by Gannett Company, and the station's transmitter is located in Marlborough, Missouri. The station broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 35, using its former analog channel assignment...

 and KETC

KETC

KETC is the Public Broadcasting Service member Public television station in St. Louis, Missouri. Owned by St. Louis Regional Public Media, the call letters KETC represent the St. Louis Educational Television Comission, the former name of the organization responsible for bringing public television...

 simulcast a telethon for Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

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 relief that raised more than $5 million. The telethon featured an appearance by John Goodman

John Goodman

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, a native of Affton, Missouri

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 who now calls New Orleans, Louisiana

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 home and whose family was actually missing for a time during the storm's peak. Sheryl Crow

Sheryl Crow

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, a native of Kennett, Missouri

Kennett, Missouri

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, and her then-fiancé Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong

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urged viewers to call when they were interviewed by telephone from the region.

On-air staff

Phillips & Company Morning Show

-Guy Phillips

-Courtney Landrum

-Kevin "The Intern" Berghoff

-Jen Myers

-Lance Hildebrand with Traffic

Middays

-Jill Devine

Afternoons

-Paul Cook

-Lance Hildebrand with traffic

Evenings

-Taylor J


Overnights


Weekends

-Laura Marshall

-Tim Stephens

-Elaine Everett

-David Myers

-Fred DelPizzo

-Luis Cannon

External links

• KYKY Website