KMCK-FM
City | Prairie Grove, Arkansas |
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Broadcast area | Northwest Arkansas including Fayetteville and Bentonville |
Frequency | 105.7 MHz |
Branding | Power 105.7 |
Programming | |
Format | Top 40 (CHR) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Cumulus Media (Cumulus Licensing LLC) |
Sister stations | KAMO-FM, KFAY, KKEG, KQSM-FM, KRMW, KYNG |
History | |
First air date | 1947 (as KUOA-FM Siloam Springs) |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 64630 |
Class | C1 |
ERP | 100,000 watts |
HAAT | 145 meters (476 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°11′7″N 94°17′49″W / 36.18528°N 94.29694°WCoordinates: 36°11′7″N 94°17′49″W / 36.18528°N 94.29694°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live! |
Website | Power1057.com |
KMCK-FM (105.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) radio format. The station is licensed to Prairie Grove, Arkansas, and serves Northwest Arkansas. It is known as "Power 105.7" and is owned by Cumulus Media.[1]
KMCK has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for non-grandfathered FM stations. The transmitter is off Liberty Avenue in Tontitown, Arkansas.[2] Its signal reaches parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
History[]
It signed on the air in 1947 as KUOA-FM, owned by John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.[3] It was originally powered at 2,600 watts, a fraction of its current output.
It switched to Top 40 music in 1989. Before that, KMCK was a Hot Adult Contemporary station known as "K106".
References[]
- ^ "KMCK-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/KMCK-FM
- ^ Information from Broadcasting Yearbook 1950 page 78
External links[]
- Power 105.7 official website
- KMCK in the FCC FM station database
- KMCK on Radio-Locator
- KMCK in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- Radio stations in Arkansas
- Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States
- Radio stations established in 1989
- Cumulus Media radio stations
- Arkansas radio station stubs