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KCMO-FM

KCMO-FM
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City Shawnee, Kansas
Broadcast area Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Branding 94-9 KCMO
Slogan The Greatest Hits of the 70s and 80s
The Greatest Christmas Hits (Nov.-Dec.)
Frequency 94.9 MHz
Translator(s) 102.5 K273BZ (Kansas City, relays HD2)
First air date February 1948 (as KCFM)
Format Classic hits (Christmas music Nov.-Dec.)
HD2: Adult hits "102.5 Jack FM"
HD3: Talk (KCMO-AM simulcast)
Language(s) English
ERP 100,000 watts
HAAT 341.1 meters (1,119 ft)
Class C0
Facility ID 6385
Transmitter coordinates 39°05′26″N 94°28′18″W / 39.09056°N 94.47167°W / 39.09056; -94.47167
Callsign meaning Kansas City, MissOuri
Former callsigns KCFM (1948-1950)
KCMO-FM (1950-1968)
KFMU (1968-1974
KCEZ (1974-1983)
KCMO-FM (1983-1985)
KBKC (1985-1986)
KCPW (1986-1989)
Owner Cumulus Media
(CMP Houston-KC, LLC)
Sister stations KCFX, KCHZ, KCJK, KCMO, KMJK, K279BI
Webcast Listen Live
Listen Live iHeart
Listen Live (HD2)
Website 949kcmo.com
1025jackfm.com (HD2)

KCMO-FM (94.9 MHz, "94-9 KCMO") is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Shawnee, Kansas and broadcasting to the Kansas City metropolitan area. The station is owned by Cumulus Broadcasting and airs a classic hits radio format, switching to all-Christmas music from mid-November to December 25th. KCMO-FM's studios and offices are located on Foxridge Drive in Mission, Kansas. The transmitter is off Menown Avenue in Independence, Missouri.

KCMO-FM broadcasts in HD, with its HD2 signal airing an adult hits format, known as 102.5 "JACK-FM" which is simulcast on 250 watt translator K273BZ at 102.5 MHz. The talk radio format of sister station AM 710 KCMO is carried on KCMO-FM's HD3 subchannel.

One of the first FM stations in Kansas City, KCMO-FM signed on as KCFM in February of 1948. It simulcast 810 AM, at the time the dial location of KCMO-AM. During the Golden Age of Radio, the stations aired network dramas, comedies, game shows, soap operas and big bands. The KCMO-FM call letters were granted in 1950, the first of several times the station would go by that call sign. Meredith Broadcasting bought KCMO-AM-FM in 1953. On July 23, 1959, as the days of network programming ended, KCMO-AM-FM adopted an MOR and personality format.


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