City | Helotes, Texas |
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Broadcast area | San Antonio, Texas |
Branding | KONO Radio |
Slogan | San Antonio's Greatest Hits |
Frequency | 101.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
First air date | February 18, 1971 (as KNAF-FM Fredericksburg, Texas) |
Format | Classic Hits |
Language(s) | English |
Audience share | 6.9 (January 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
ERP | 96,000 watts |
HAAT | 302 meters |
Class | C1 |
Facility ID | 50030 |
Callsign meaning | San AntONiO |
Former callsigns | KNAF (1971-1981) KFAN (1981-1990) |
Owner |
Cox Radio (Cox Radio, Inc.) |
Sister stations | KCYY, KISS-FM, KKYX, KONO, KTKX, KSMG |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | kono1011.com |
KONO-FM (101.1 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Helotes, Texas and it serves Greater San Antonio. It is owned by Cox Radio and airs a classic hits radio format. Its studios are located in Northwest San Antonio near the South Texas Medical Center complex, and the transmitter site is off Galm Road in Helotes near the Government Canyon State Natural Area.
KONO-FM features a playlist of hit songs from co-owned KONO (AM)'s long history of Top 40 music from the 1970s and 1980s. KONO-FM uses the slogan "San Antonio's Greatest Hits". Playlist artists include The Eagles, The Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Hall and Oates and others with a few songs from the 1960s and the 1990s. At Christmas, the station goes back to the 1950s for several holiday classics. Including the 1994 and 2006 songs in Holiday Christmas.
KONO-FM first signed on the air on February 18, 1971 as KNAF-FM, sister station to 910 KNAF (AM) in Fredericksburg, Texas. At first it simulcast the country music format on the AM station, but by the mid-1970s it had a separately programmed beautiful music format. It later took the call letters KFAN, as an adult album alternative station. The station then moved to the San Antonio media market as KONO-FM, simulcasting 860 KONO from May 1990 until KONO (AM) changed its format to sports radio in January 2014. During that time KBKK 107.9 FM in Johnson City, Texas started broadcasting KFAN's previous Adult Alternative format. About a year later it acquired the KFAN-FM call sign.