KJMY
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KJMY, branded as My 99.5 is a Hot Adult Contemporary radio station
broadcasting to the Salt Lake City
metropolitan area. The station, whose frequency is 99.5 MHz, is owned by Clear Channel Communications
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The station is unique in that it feature no on-air personalities, but instead, uses its listeners (via recorded drops) as its "personalities". At the end of each song they play, the station says the name of the song as well as the name of the artist.
Since March 2010, KJMY's HD2
radio signal has broadcast a classic country
format and has been used to feed an analog FM translator station, K256AE (99.1), licensed to Provo. The station is branded as "Classic Country 99.1" and operates using a loophole
in FCC translator regulations to broadcast an additional analog signal to the market. On September 15, 2011 KJMY-HD2 changed their format to classic rock, branded as "Rock 99.1".
. On 1996-10-01 the station became KURR, changing formats to classic rock. Struggling for many years, on 2004-11-04 the current callsign KJMY began being used, and the station's format became hot adult contemporary as it is today.
Radio station
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broadcasting to the Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
metropolitan area. The station, whose frequency is 99.5 MHz, is owned by Clear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications
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The station is unique in that it feature no on-air personalities, but instead, uses its listeners (via recorded drops) as its "personalities". At the end of each song they play, the station says the name of the song as well as the name of the artist.
Since March 2010, KJMY's HD2
HD2
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radio signal has broadcast a classic country
Classic country
Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country hits from past decades.This genre generally follows one of two formats: those specializing in hits from the 1920s through the early 1970s, and focus primarily on innovators and artists from country music's Golden...
format and has been used to feed an analog FM translator station, K256AE (99.1), licensed to Provo. The station is branded as "Classic Country 99.1" and operates using a loophole
Loophole
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in FCC translator regulations to broadcast an additional analog signal to the market. On September 15, 2011 KJMY-HD2 changed their format to classic rock, branded as "Rock 99.1".
History
The station was assigned the call letters KBZE on 1988-02-22. On 1989-02-14, the station changed its call sign to KLVV. As KLVV, the station carried an Adult Contemporary format. On 1991-06-17 the station became KUTQ and was known as "Rock 99". As KUTQ, the station achieved its highest ratings with the afternoon show "Mick and Allen" which is presently on KBERKBER
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. On 1996-10-01 the station became KURR, changing formats to classic rock. Struggling for many years, on 2004-11-04 the current callsign KJMY began being used, and the station's format became hot adult contemporary as it is today.