KMOD-FM
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| City | Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Broadcast area | Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| Branding | 97.5 KMOD |
| Slogan | Tulsa's Rock Station |
| Frequency | 97.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1959 |
| Format | Active Rock |
| ERP | 96,000 watts |
| HAAT | 405 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 11957 |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, Inc.) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.kmod.com/ |
KMOD-FM (97.5 FM) is an active rock radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.. The station plays a wide variety of rock music from the 1960s through today. Its studios are located at the Tulsa Event Center in Southeast Tulsa and its transmitter site is in the Osage Reservation.
KMOD-FM broadcasts in the HD digital format.
The station was the home of disc jockeys Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, who originated the character Roy D. Mercer, the notorious and popular prank caller who regularly threatened to "open a can of whup-ass" on the person he called (for some fabricated wrong the person supposedly had done), only for the person to find out the call was a prank. Stone died in 2012, not long after he and Douglas were not allowed to continue their works as DJs due to the latter's refusal to sign a new contract.
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Theresa de Veto (known by her many fans in later years as 'Mother Theresa') was the all night disk jockey at KMOD for many years, known for her 'New Music Show' during which she would spin punk rock, new wave and other early alternative music (including local music) that was not the usual programmed music of KMOD. During the same time period, actress Jeanne Tripplehorn was also a DJ at this station, known as Jeannie Summers. de Veto and Tripplehorn moved to New York City before Jeanne made her break in the movies, and de Veto established herself as a popular Manhattan night Club DJ and NYC Night Club entrepreneur. de Veto later had her own very popular project, The EOI Network on 92.1 FM in Tulsa in the mid-1990s upon her return from New York.
'Scary Mary' (Mary Cochran) joined the station in 1980, and was also very popular with audiences on her show 'The Graveyard Club'. Scary Mary replaced Theresa de Veto in 1985, and had the midnight to 6 AM show until 1994. At that time the overnight dj did not have a playlist (a list of songs required to be played with no room for creativity) and was free to take requests along with expressing ones personal taste in what was mixed to produce a cohesive sound. Mary (Simmons) Cochran was known as 'Sunny Olson' on KJSR (Star 103), KOOL, and KBEZ; and was also employed as a talk show producer for 'Nightline' on KRMG from 1977 to 1980.
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