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| Broadcast area | Tulsa metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 97.5MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | 97.5 KMOD |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Format | Active rock |
| Affiliations | Compass Media Networks |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KAKC,KIZS,KTBT,KTBZ,KTGX | |
| History | |
First air date | October 10, 1959; 66 years ago (1959-10-10) |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | "Modern" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 11957 |
| Class | C |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 453 meters (1,486 ft) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | kmod |
KMOD-FM (97.5MHz) is acommercial radio station inTulsa, Oklahoma, owned byiHeartMedia, Inc. It airs anactive rockradio format. The station's studios and offices are at the Tulsa Events Center on South Yale Avenue in Southeast Tulsa.
KMOD-FM is aClass C station. It has aneffective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations. Thetransmittertower is alongOklahoma State Highway 97 on theOsage Reservation inSand Springs.[2] KMOD-FM broadcasts in theHD Radio digital format.[3] Its HD2subchannel formerly playedalternative rock. The HD2 subchannel has since been turned off.
The stationsigned on the air on October 10, 1959.[4] Its originalcall sign was KOCW and it was owned by Grayhill, Inc. It was a rare stand-alone FM station in an era when few people owned FM receivers. Most FM stations at that time were co-owned with an AM or TV station. In 1960, Claude Hill bought out partner Meredith Gray. The station had aneasy listening format, known as "Good Music."
KOCW was sold to Dawson Communications/Turnpike Broadcasting Corporation in 1968 and became KMOD on April 15 of that year. It had aprogressive rock format. Thecall letters represented the word "modern."Clear Channel Communications, the forerunner to today's iHeartMedia, acquired the station in 1973 out of bankruptcy. It became thesister station to 1300 KXXO (nowKAKC).
KMOD is known as the nearly 30-year home of disc jockeys Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, who hosted morningdrive time. The pair originated the characterRoy D. Mercer, the notorious and popularprank caller who regularly threatened to "open a can of whup-ass" on the person he called for some fabricated wrong the person supposedly had done. Eventually the person might find out the call was a prank. Stone and Douglas' show was ended due to the latter's refusal to sign a new contract.[5] Stone died in 2012.
ActressJeanne Tripplehorn was also a DJ at KMOD in the 1980s. She used the air name Jeanne Summers.[6]
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