KRKI
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| City of license | Keystone, South Dakota |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Rapid City, South Dakota |
| Branding | 99-5 The Range |
| Frequency | 99.5 MHz |
| Repeaters | KRKI-FM1 Rapid City, South Dakota |
| First air date | 2000 |
| Format | Classic Country |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 224 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 89114 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Former callsigns | KVAM (2000-2000) |
| Affiliations | NBC News Radio |
| Owner | Oregon Trail Broadcasting, LLC (Bad Lands Broadcasting Company, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KFMH |
| Website | 995therange |
KRKI (99.5 FM, "99-5 The Range") is a radio station licensed to serve Keystone, South Dakota. The station serves Rapid City, South Dakota, with an on-channel broadcast booster licensed as KRKI-FM1. The station is owned by Oregon Trail Broadcasting, LLC, through licensee Bad Lands Broadcasting Company, Inc. KRKI airs a Classic Country format.[1]
Contents
History
The station signed on in 2000 as KVAM (changing its call letters to KRKI later that year) with a rhythmic format as Hip Hop Radio serving Newcastle, Wyoming. In 2007, the station upgraded to 100,000 watts and moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, with a format flip to the Real Country satellite network as US 99.5. On January 5, 2009, KRKI switched to a 24-hour simulcast of ESPN Radio becoming the first full-time sports talk station in the Rapid City market.[2]
On April 1, 2012, KRKI changed affiliations from ESPN Radio to Fox Sports Radio, while KTOQ switched to ESPN Radio the same day. [3]
Effective October 8, 2012, it has now branded itself "99-5 The Range" and adopted the Classic Country format. [4]
On November 29, 2012, KRKI's city of license was changed from Newcastle, Wyoming to Keystone, South Dakota.
Booster
| Call sign | Frequency (MHz) |
City of license | ERP W |
Class | FCC info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KRKI-FM1 | 99.5 | Rapid City, South Dakota | 550 | D | FCC |
References
External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KRKI
- Radio-Locator information on KRKI
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KRKI
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