KMOX-FM
news/talk radio station in Hazelwood–St. Louis, Missouri
KMOX-FM (104.1 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Hazelwood, Missouri, United States, and serves the Greater St. Louis area with a talk radio format as a simulcast of KMOX (1120 AM). Owned by Audacy, Inc., KMOX-FM's studios are located in downtown St. Louis and the transmitter is adjacent to Crossroads College Preparatory School in St. Louis. In addition to a standard analog transmission, KMOX-FM is available online via Audacy.
History
Jerseyville era (1967–1985)
The station signed on in 1967, licensed to Jerseyville, Illinois, as WJBM-FM, airing a full service format featuring country music as a sister station to WJBM (1480 AM), and a transmitter located north of that community. For its first few years of existence, its reach was limited to the same rural area as their AM partner, with any efforts to market to St. Louis merely coincidental and involving radio advertising targeted across the region.
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This entry incorporates text from “KMOX-FM” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.