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​Call letters changed from KCWA in 1999.

​Call letters were changed to KGLD in 1984 just prior to an ownership change in which the station was bought by Robinson Broadcasting. An oldies format was put in place. In 1991, owners Chase Broadcasting pulled the plug on oldies and instituted an all sports format, the market’s first. Call letters were changed late that year to KASP.

Live Teen Show Broadcast By KSHE/95

Top bands are featured each night. You’ll hear sounds from such popular groups as Jerry Jay and the Sheratons, the Acid Sette, Herman Grimes and the Spectors with the Mo Jo Men, Walter Scott and the Guise, the Good Feelin’, the Poets, the Belaerphon Expedition, the Aardvarks, and too many more to mention. Castaway management told Teen Sceen that some new big groups from out of town will be featured in the future.

And where is KSHE 95? Why, it’s on the FM dial. In fact, KSHE is the first radio station to play hard rock music. It has become known as all request radio, 24 hours a day. Many of the area high schools listen to KSHE during their lunch periods, among them Webster Groves, Parkway, and Vianney in Kirkwood.

The new tempo at KSHE cannot be pinpointed. Jockeys move. Therefore the KSHE disc jockeys will be moving time segments regularly so listeners can catch the djs of KSHE during the time that they normally listen. Guest appearances are coming up too.

To sum it all up, look for big things to happen to St. Louis radio during the first part of 1968. Lots of surprises and prizes from the new top station, KSHE, the official voice of Teen Sceen are in store for you.

(Originally published in Teen Sceen 1/68).

​Call letters changed from KSLG 2012

​Missouri Sports Radio, which owned KFNS(AM) in 1998, purchased KZMM, which was licensed to Troy, MO., in 1998. Call letters were changed to KFNS-FM. The purpose of the purchase was to give KFNS, with its relatively weak AM signal, better coverage in St. Charles County and west St. Louis County. The FM station was spun off by a subsequent owner of the sports station combo at a financial loss in 2009, and the new owners, Westplex Broadcasting, retained the call letters..

​Adams Communications, holder of the license for the 590 kHz AM frequency, pulled the plug on its 24-hour business format in early 1991 and renamed the station KEZK, in conjunction with its other St. Louis station, KEZK-FM. After the AM station was sold to Compass Radio Group in 1993, the calls were changed to KFNS.