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  • KCIY logo
  • Old Entercom building
    • Call Letters: WDAF-FM
    City of License: Liberty, MO
    Format: Country "106.5 the Wolf"
    HD2: Smooth Jazz

    Owner: Entercom
    HAAT/ERP: 981ft/100kw
    Coverage: Excellent
    http://www.1065thewolf.com
    1977-1979 - KFIX - Top 40/MOR
    KFIX Compared very similarly to the music of KMBZ and KCMO at the time. KFIX hired Mike Murphy and his brother Pat. However, Mike didn't stick around too long. They had NBC network news. Prior to the official sign-on, they tested transmissions with the call letters KSAB (Strauss-Abernathy Broadcasting).

    1979-1983 - KSAS - Progressive "SAS 106 1/2"
    SW Radio Enterprises took over in 1979. KSAS was a short-lived rock station trying to hang on to more artsy bands like ELP and Steely Dan. Most people won't remember it. Transcolumbia bought the station in 1982.

    1983-1986 - KKCI - Album Rock "106.5 KCI"
    This station was almost an exact copy of KYYS. KKCI ("KCI") modeled itself in the image of our out-of-the-way airport, which was appropriate since the station was in Liberty. KKCI began in March of 1983. Randy Miller made his first KC appearance at this station.

    1986-1988 - KLYT - Soft Adult Contemporary "K-Lite"
    KLYT marked another entry into the crowded soft music market in KC in October 1986. Imagine it's 1987, and you hear soft music on 93.3, 95.7, 98.1, 98.9, 99.7, 106.5 and 107.3.

    1988-1990 - KXXR - Album Rock
    This was a real breakthrough in July of 1988. KXXR ("Today's Rock and Roll") was a combination of rock hits (Steve Winwood, Paul Carrack, Melissa Etheridge), hard rock (Whitesnake, Van Halen, The Cult) and modern rock (The Smiths, Public Image Ltd., Midnight Oil). This station had some real verve to it, especially when compared with KYYS. However, they failed to predict what the next big thing would be, and that was grunge rock acts like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. So in June 1990, the format was changed.

    1990-1992 - KXXR - Top 40/Rhythmic "X-106"
    The station began with "Me So Horny," but by 1992, they were pretty much mainstream Top 40, and had lost the dance lean. The station was about to change formats, but they got a reprieve in a frequency swap with Country KCFM (107.3). So in February 1992, Capitol Broadcasting's KXXR moved to 107.3.

    1992-1995 - KKCJ - Country "CJ-106."
    KCFM moved in with a Garth Brooks marathon, and then changed calls to KKCJ. CJ stood for Country Junction. But the country music market, even in KC, was too crowded. So, KKCJ blew up the cash cow in March 1995 as Heritage Media took over the station, and went into a month-long stunt. That stunt was "Polka Radio." But it included some twists. There was Polka with Hootie and the Blowfish. There was also two hours of modern rock aimed at lampooning KLZR and KISF (slogan was "We're the imitator, not the innovator").

    1995-2003 - KCIY - Smooth Jazz "106.5 the City"
    After a month of that stunting, "The City" made a very technical sign-on by explaining the proper balance and setting for your speakers, as well as describing what kind of processing they would use. KCIY got off to a slow start, but they stuck with the format, which is sort of a hip easy listening. Sinclair bought the station in 1997, only to see Entercom take over in 2000. KCIY became the top soft music station in the market, perhaps because it does bear that resemblance to easy listening stations of the past. But, it sometimes comes at the expense of co-owned KUDL. That conflict might've hastened its end, as Entercom's desire to start a sports station ended up with WDAF moving to 106.5.

    2003-current - WDAF-FM - Country
    Entercom announecd it would start a sports station on 610 kHz, and move WDAF to the FM dial. WDAF-FM simulcasted on both frequencies until the sports format debuted. WDAF-FM reclaimed the title of top country station for a while. On January 10, 2007, WDAF started calling itself "106.5 the Wolf."