KKWD is 104.9 FM (calls itself Wild 104.9) and is owned by Cumulus Radio Network.
The sign on the building is old and still lists it as KQCV and KNTL. The station was KNTL from Mar 1990 to October 2006, when it was changed to KKWD. KNTL started as news/talk radio, went to contemporary Christian, and then to pop/Top 40 as KKWD.
KQCV has moved their transmitter.
KKWD-FM Technical Details:
Station Status Licensed Class A FM Station
Digital Status Transmits in digital
Effective Radiated Power 6000 Watts
Height above Avg. Terrain 100 meters (328 feet)
Height above Ground Level 73 meters (240 feet)
Height above Sea Level 475 meters (1558 feet)
Antenna Pattern Non-Directional
Transmitter Location 35° 29' 53" N, 97° 37' 11" W
License Granted April 20 1998
License Expires June 01 2021
Last FCC Update May 24 2013
from Wikipedia:
Early years
The station was on the air as Top 40 KNBQ in 1965 from the Coronado Shopping Center at 39th and MacArthur (NE Corner). In 1971 the station flipped to gospel and changed its call sign to KGOY (K-JOY). In 1978 the station was broadcasting inspirational music, then switched to a Christian Adult Contemporary format with the call sign KJIL ("Jesus Is Lord"). Shortly after being bought by Broadcast Equities, the station call sign was changed to KNTL ("News Talk Leader") on March 19, 1990. On April 20th of 1991, KNTL became "The Light 105" and began broadcasting a contemporary Christian music format. Bott Radio Network acquired the station in November 1994 and kept the format until 1996 when it became Christian Teaching.
Citadel Broadcasting purchased the station, along with "SportsRadio 640" WWLS-AM and "Sports Talk 1340" KEBC, in 1998. The purchase was finalized May 4, 1998, but the format was changed in advance (January 17, 1998) to Sports–Talk. The station was known as WWLS-FM ("The Sports Animal”), a mirror of WWLS-AM, but on April 11, 2002, the Sports Animal moved to 105.3 FM. WWLS-FM became "K-Bull" with the calls KQBL and adopted a Hot Country format until Christmas 2002. On December 26, 2002, the station returned to sports-talk “WWLS The Sports Animal,” but the station was still operating under the KQBL calls until the WWLS-FM calls returned on March 6, 2003.
WILD 104.9
On October 23, 2006, KKWD swapped signals with sister station WWLS-FM and moved to the 104.9 frequency from 97.9 in order to have a new high definition signal. Under its format playing pop/Top40 music with a heavy mixture of recurrent dance hits from the past fifteen years, KKWD's main and only competitor is Top 40 rival KJYO.
KKWD has been known for its outlandish stunts since its January 2000 launch, such as the April Fools' Day stunts where the on-air announcers from sister KINB performed all shifts in Spanish and where the station ran a continuous loop of the song "Wild Thing" by Tone Loc for two consecutive weeks. Most recently, after a change in on-air presentation, the station was "quarantined" by a fictional government agency due to the possibility of an "epidemic" among the station's staff; at the end of the stunt it was revealed that the station in fact had "Spring Fever" in reference to an upcoming station concert.
Following the purchase of Citadel Broadcasting by Cumulus Media, KKWD's format was tweaked to focus heavier on older, more familiar hits from the past fifteen years with a de-emphasis on newer music and only adding currents by high-profile artists and/or are chart-toppers. In early 2016, the station was tweaked back to its original current-focused format.