KKVU
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KKVU is a commercial radio station
licensed to Stevensville, Montana
, serving the Missoula, Montana
area, owned by Spanish Peaks Broadcasting. KKVU airs a Adult Top 40 music format and is one of two stations in the market with the same format competing for listeners, the other being KMSO-FM. They are also one of several stations in the United States that are using the trademarked "Fresh FM" handle, along with KOIT-FM
/San Francisco, WBEB
/Philadelphia, and WWFS/New York City
, but unlike the other 3 KKVU is the only one that is an Adult Top 40 as opposed to the Mainstream Adult Contemporary direction KOIT, WWFS and WBEB offers.
Radio station
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licensed to Stevensville, Montana
Stevensville, Montana
Stevensville is a town in Ravalli County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,553 at the 2000 census.-History:Stevensville is officially recognized as the first permanent settlement in the state of Montana...
, serving the Missoula, Montana
Missoula, Montana
Missoula is a city located in western Montana and is the county seat of Missoula County. The 2010 Census put the population of Missoula at 66,788 and the population of Missoula County at 109,299. Missoula is the principal city of the Missoula Metropolitan Area...
area, owned by Spanish Peaks Broadcasting. KKVU airs a Adult Top 40 music format and is one of two stations in the market with the same format competing for listeners, the other being KMSO-FM. They are also one of several stations in the United States that are using the trademarked "Fresh FM" handle, along with KOIT-FM
KOIT-FM
KOIT-FM is an Lite Rock-formatted radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States. Its slogan is "Lite Rock, Less Talk". The station's programming was also simulcast for many years on 1260 AM...
/San Francisco, WBEB
WBEB
WBEB is a radio station broadcasting a Soft Rock/Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it serves the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in 1963 under the call sign WDVR. The station is currently owned by Jerry Lee...
/Philadelphia, and WWFS/New York City
New York City
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, but unlike the other 3 KKVU is the only one that is an Adult Top 40 as opposed to the Mainstream Adult Contemporary direction KOIT, WWFS and WBEB offers.