KSTZ
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| City | Des Moines, Iowa |
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| Broadcast area | Des Moines, Iowa |
| Branding | Star 102.5 |
| Slogan | Today's Best Variety |
| Frequency | 102.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | 93.7 K229CC (Des Moines, relays HD2) |
| First air date | 1970 (as KRNT-FM) |
| Format |
Hot Adult Contemporary HD2: Country "93.7 The Outlaw" |
| ERP | 92,000 watts |
| HAAT | 384 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 58541 |
| Callsign meaning | K STZ short for "Stars" as in "Superstars" |
| Former callsigns | KRNT-FM (1970-1974) KRNQ (1974-1993) |
| Owner | Saga Communications |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website |
star1025.com 937theoutlaw.com (HD2) |
KSTZ (102.5 FM, "Star 102.5") is an FM radio station based in Des Moines, Iowa. The station plays Hot Adult Contemporary music. KSTZ is part of Saga Communications' Des Moines Radio Group, along with KPSZ, KRNT, KAZR, KIOA, and KMYR.
The station signed on the air in 1970 as KRNT-FM under the ownership of the Cowles family, publishers of the Des Moines Register. During those early years, Drake-Chenault's Hit Parade format was aired. In 1974 the station became KRNQ ("Q-102"); that year, Cowles sold KRNQ and KRNT (AM) to Stauffer Communications of Topeka, Kansas. The two stations were sold to Saga Communications in August 1988. KRNQ was originally an automated Top 40 station, but in 1984, the station began using local personalities. By the end of the 1980s, KRNQ was at or near the top of the local Arbitron ratings.
In 1991, due to Saga's decision to reach older listeners, what was known as Q102 with a contemporary hit radio format changed to a Hot Adult Contemporary format and was known as "Q102/KRNQ Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites". Q102/KRNQ promised to play no rap (even though it was rarely played on the station after Saga's purchase in 1988) or hard rock, both of which were very much a part of popular music at the time. This format change left Des Moines with no contemporary hit radio for nine years, until KKDM's flip from Alternative to Top 40/CHR in 1999. KRNQ became KSTZ on June 25, 1993. (The KRNQ call letters are now used for a station in Keokuk, Iowa.)
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