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​Call letters changed from KSLG 2012

​Call letters of the 97.1 frequency changed from KLTH to KHTK in August of 1989 and owner Saul Frischling set out to create create a contemporary/rock format under the “Hot 97” moniker. The effort was short-lived, with call letters and format changing again in November, 1992.

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).

​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.

​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.

​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.