Operated by the Mehlville School District at a frequency of 89.3, the station featured student disc jockeys broadcasting from Mehlville Senior High. They began broadcasting in 1974. A newspaper article told of a major problem of theft of the station’s records from its library.
Cahokia School District held the license and the studio was in the high school. Broadcasts were on 89.5 and consisted of kids playing Top 40 records and broadcasts of sporting events.
The station, licensed to the Belleville Junior College, broadcast at 89.7 with a power of 10 watts. Operations began in 1976 and ended in 1979. Staffing was a problem, as the junior college student volunteers often did not show up for their air shifts.
KLPH was the original call letter combination requested for the 89.9 FM construction permit. By the time the permit was issued, the call letters had been changed to KBDY.
This public radio station, run by the Montgomery-Hyde Park neighborhood association, was licensed at 89.9 in April of 1974. Volunteers ran the on-air operations. Financial problems forced them off the air in 1978, and a group called “Women in Motion” came up with funding to operate it. By 1980, they were forced out due to business inconsistencies. In 1987, broadcasts resumed, although the station was only licensed to operate with 10 watts of power. There were several sources of operating funds, but the Federal Communications Commission finally pulled the plug after an extended period of technical problems.
The station sporting the KXOK-FM call letters first went on the air in 1948, simulcasting much of the programming of sister station of Star-Times-owned KXOK. Its frequency was 93.7. Star-Times owners, the Roberts family, retained ownership of the stations after the newspaper shut down in 1951, but the FM station went dark March 31, 1953.