KXRK
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| City | Provo, Utah |
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| Broadcast area | Salt Lake City |
| Branding | X96 |
| Slogan | Utah's Original Alternative |
| Frequency | 96.3 MHz FM |
| Repeater(s) | 96.3 KXRK-FM1 (Park City) K284AY 104.7 FM (Stockton) |
| Format | Alternative Rock |
| ERP | 21,600 watts |
| HAAT | 1,243 meters (4,078 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 406 |
| Callsign meaning | K X RocK |
| Former callsigns | KFMY-FM (1986-1988) KZOL (1988-1992) |
| Owner | Dell Loy Hansen (Broadway Media LS, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KEGA, KUDD, KYMV, KUUU, KALL |
| Webcast | stream opens on website when "Listen Live" button is clicked |
| Website | x96 |
KXRK (96.3 FM, branded as X96) is a commercial radio station located in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, broadcasting an alternative rock music format to the Provo, Ogden, and Salt Lake City area. Owned by Broadway Media, the station's studios are located in Downtown Salt Lake City and its transmitter site is located southwest of the city on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains.
KXRK had a long history in the Utah market, first concentrating on Provo, as a top-40 station in the 1970s and 1980s as KAYK and later KFMY-FM.
In 1978–1979, Lee Charles Kelley—who is now a mystery novelist living in New York City—worked the evening shift at K-96, as KXRK was then known, under the name of "Charlie Harris". In 1981, Kidd Kraddick was hired to take over the 6-10 pm shift. W. Eugene Manning was the general manager at the time and he also hired Jim Sumpter to work at the station. K-96 was always in the top five in the ratings, and in Provo it was said that the station had 25% of all listeners, though this remains largely unverified because Arbitron did not collect ratings data for Provo until the mid-1980s. Fox News commentator Glenn Beck also worked at K-96 in late 1982 to 1983 when he was 18. It was his second professional job in broadcasting.
The format began to drift and some say it was never the same again. In 1988, Marriott Corp sold the station to a local Native American tribe and the station changed to a satellite oldies format as KZOL on September 1, 1988.
In 1990, the station began to add more current songs and it seemed like the format had returned to top 40. However, in February 1992 the station abruptly changed to alternative and took the present callsign KXRK.
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