KRES is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a country music

Country music

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 format. Licensed to Moberly, Missouri

Moberly, Missouri

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, USA, the station serves the Columbia, Missouri

Columbia, Missouri

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, area. The station is currently owned by GoodRadio.tv through the holding company Moberly/Macon License Company, LLC and features programing from ABC Radio . The station began broadcasting

Broadcasting

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 on 1550 AM

AM broadcasting

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 in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1947 playing hits from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The station changed its call sign

Call sign

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 to KKJO

KKJO

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 in 1962 and began playing hits from the 50s and 60s.

Today KRES broadcasts on 104.7 FM with a news

All-news radio

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/sports

Sports radio

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 format. KRES is the Moberly affiliate for St. Louis Cardinals

St. Louis Cardinals

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 baseball.

Throughout the day the on-air programmers who can be heard on KRES include, Brad Boyer, Bill Peterson, Brad Tregnago, Jenna Tayon, Aaron Wood, Eric Messersmith, Brian Hauswirth, Matt Tarnawa, Matt Elliott, and Brennan Holtzclaw.

In the early 1990s, KWIX-KRES radio's on-air staff included St. Louis-area transplants such as Bryan Polcyn, Doug Stewart, Mike Roberts and Paul Lewandowski.

Ownership

On March 1, 2007, it was announced that GoodRadio.TV LLC plans to buy The Shepherd Group of radio stations in Missouri. The Shepherd Group operates 16 small-market radio stations in Missouri. The deal was reportedly worth $30.6 million.

Dean Goodman recently formed the new company, GoodRadio.TV. He is the former president and chief executive officer of the television broadcasting company ION Media Networks Inc. Goodman stepped down from ION Media Networks in October 2006.

The Shepherd Group includes KJEL-FM and KBNN-AM in Lebanon; KJFF-AM in Festus; KREI-AM and KTJJ-FM in Farmington; KRES-FM and KWIX-AM in Moberly; KIRK-FM in Macon; KOZQ-AM, KOZQ-FM, KJPW

KJPW

KJPW is a radio station broadcasting a news talk information format. Licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, USA, the station is currently owned by Waynesville/Lebanon License Co, LLC and features programing from Fox News Radio....

and KFBD-FM in Waynesville; KAAN-FM and KAAN-AM in Bethany; and KMRN-AM and KKWK-FM in Cameron.