KHFI
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| City | Georgetown, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Austin-Round Rock |
| Branding |
96-7 KISS-FM Hot Spot (HD2) |
| Slogan | "All The Hits" |
| Frequency | 96.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | March 1, 1972 (as KGTN-FM) |
| Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 290 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 11948 |
| Callsign meaning | K Hi-Fi |
| Former callsigns | KGTN-FM (1972-7/1987) KQFX (1987-1990) |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (CC Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KASE-FM, KPEZ-FM, KVET, KVET-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live! |
| Website | 967kissfm.com |
KHFI-FM (known as "96-7 KISS-FM") is an Austin, Texas radio station playing Top 40 (CHR) and licensed to Georgetown, Texas. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. (formerly Clear Channel Communications until September 2014), it broadcasts with an ERP of 100,000 Watts from a transmitter site near West Lake Hills, Texas. It shares studios with four other sister stations in the Penn Field complex in the South Congress district (or "SoCo") of south central Austin within walking distance of St. Edward's University; it has broadcast here since 2002 after moving from a downtown Austin office building off of Barton Springs Road.
What is now KHFI-FM originally began operation as KGTN-FM on March 1, 1972. KGTN-FM was originally a small low power "rim-shot" station serving only Georgetown, and was the full-time companion to then daytime-only KGTN (now KZNX in Creedmoor). In 1987, the FCC approved a power upgrade to serve all of Austin and a new transmitter site was constructed near Sandy Creek at Lake Travis and the frequency was changed to 96.5 becoming "96.5 The Fox" (KQFX Georgetown). Later, the station changed to an oldies format, moved frequencies back to 96.7 MHz, increased power to 100,000 watts, and moved its tower to its current location near West Lake Hills, Texas.
In September 1990, the struggling "Oldies 96.7" signed off the air to make room for KHFI and its Top 40 format, which was moved from 98.1 FM, then known as the popular "K-98.1." K-98.1 became dislocated when the owners of KVET/KASE took the frequency for KVET-FM, which began simulcasting KVET, which continues today.
KHFI was originally on 98.3 MHz at a much lower power. 98.3 KHFI was, in fact, the very first FM station licensed to Austin in 1956 and was a classical-music station taking advantage of the new hi-fi technology called FM radio, hence the KHFI callsign. A decade later, KHFI-FM began its long and well known existence as a CHR/Top 40 station, though it would later shift towards album rock. Shortly after, some of the people who had managed the station's classical format got together and founded non-commercial KMFA-FM 89.5 which is still on the air today.
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