KIXI-AM
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| City | Mercer Island/Seattle, Washington |
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| Broadcast area | Seattle metropolitan area |
| Branding | Retro Radio AM 880 KIXI |
| Slogan | Music as cool now as it was then! |
| Frequency | 880 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | 106.9-2 KRWM-HD2 |
| First air date | 1947 (as KXRN at 1220) |
| Format | Adult Standards, Oldies |
| Power | 50,000 watts (day) 10,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 4629 |
| Callsign meaning | K IX - I (former AM 910 frequency) |
| Former callsigns | KXRN (1947-1952) KLAN (1952-1958) KQDE (1958-1960) KUDY (1960-1961) |
| Former frequencies | 1220 kHz (1947-1951) 1230 kHz (1951-1957) 910 kHz (1957-1983) |
| Affiliations | Westwood One News |
| Owner |
Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. (Seattle FCC License Sub, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KQMV, KRWM, KVRQ, KKNW |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kixi.com |
KIXI (880 AM) is an AM radio station licensed to Mercer Island/Seattle, Washington on the frequency of 880 kHz. It operates 24 hours a day with a daytime power of 50,000 watts and a nighttime power of 10,000 watts from a transmitter in Mercer Slough Nature Park in Bellevue, where studios are also located (although in a separate location).
KIXI features nostalgic music, such as big band and musical standards. It is the only station in the Seattle area to feature the Imagination Theatre and Twilight Zone radio dramas.
KIXI remains one of the few AM radio stations that continues to successfully program music on the AM band. It also enjoys some of the highest ratings of any "Nostalgia" formatted station in the US.
On June 1, 2006 KIXI started to carry the nationally syndicated format "Music Of Your Life" from Jones Radio Networks. Jones stopped carrying the Music of Your Life format via satellite in January 2008 in favor of its own standards format, called "Jones Standards" (which has since been discontinued and absorbed into Dial Global's America's Best Music network). However, KIXI remained until April 2009 an affiliate of Music of Your Life, now distributed by Planet Halo, Incorporated.
The station was the first AM station in Seattle to transmit its signal in IBOC digital radio during a joint demonstration with Harris Corporation and iBiquity, the licensee of the new digital AM transmission method. KIXI can also be heard in HD Radio on KRWM 106.9 FM HD2.
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