Talk:KIKO-FM

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"Official" website was a blogspot blog, which now returns a message that it has been "removed". No replacement found.

The Arbitron link generated by the script points to the home page for Arbitron. Sources need to go directly to the "page number" where the information can be verified, not just the name of the "book". If the site does not permit "deep linking", then linking to the home page is not an appropriate source as it is not easily verifiable.StreamingRadioGuide (talk) 08:22, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

KIKO-FM 100.3 early years[edit]

I don't remember precisely when I first heard KIKO-FM, perhaps in the late 1970's to early 1980's. As I recall, KIKO-FM, Globe, was broadcasting Monaural FM on 100.3, carrying local small-town news, including high school sports, CBS news at the top of the hour and a variety of music. The format was looser than the usual rigid big-city approach of frequent reminders of which station you're listening to.

The Arizona Republic may have some news stories in its archives about the move to buy up the radio stations whose signals emanate from the mountains bordering the Phoenix metro area, tying them together to increase their aggregate service area and reprogramming them to target the Phoenix audience. This is what happened to 100.3, and the present KIKO-FM was a new station built to target the local market in the Globe-Miami-Claypool area of east central Arizona.

QZVX.com has a rather lengthy history of AM radio in Phoenix, followed by a history of FM radio, and confirms the use of KIKO on 100.3.

Larry (talk) 13:08, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]