KHUT
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| City | Hutchinson, Kansas |
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| Broadcast area | Wichita, Kansas |
| Branding | Country 102.9 |
| Slogan | Hutchinson's Country Station |
| Frequency | 102.9 MHz |
| Format | Country music |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 131.0 meters (429.8 ft) |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 18068 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°2′39.00″N 98°0′56.00″W / 38.0441667°N 98.0155556°W |
| Affiliations | Jones Radio Network |
| Owner | Eagle Communications, Inc. |
| Sister stations | KHMY, KWBW |
| Website | hutchinsonscountrystation.com |
KHUT (102.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format.[1] Licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas, United States, the station serves the Wichita area. The station is currently owned by Eagle Communications, Inc.
KHUT goes by the slogan "Country 102.9, Hutchinson's Country Station." KHUT is a 100,000 watt FM radio station serving the central third of Kansas since 1972. On the air originally as KWBW-FM, the station played country music from 1972 to 1978. After a short-lived switch to a Beautiful Music format, the station changed call letters to KHUT and successfully returned to Country music in 1979. Owned originally by Nation's Center Broadcasting, the founding company of sister station KWBW, KHUT was purchased by Beach-Schmidt Communications in 1989. Beach-Schmidt is now employee owned Eagle Communications headquartered in Hays, Kansas.
Talent
Mornings are hosted by Pat James, weekdays 5-10am. James started with Eagle Radio Hutchinson in March 2017, and was soon elevated to Operations Manager of the cluster. James comes to Hutchinson after previous stops in Wichita, St. Louis and Gainesville, FL. He is best known for his years at KFDI-FM in Wichita and at WIL-FM in St. Louis as part of the CMA Award Winning Cornbread Show. Before coming to KHUT, he was Program Director of BOB-FM and HANK-FM in Wichita. In his first year on the air at KHUT, he was nominated for the Academy of Country Music Small Market Personality of the Year.
DJ Dan handles the middays from 10am to 3pm.
Randy McKay is on-air in afternoons from 3pm to 7pm. Randy has been a radio announcer since 1979. Randy is also Country 102.9's Program Director and Music Director. He was with KHUT from 1989 to 1992 left for a stint in Salina, KS and returned in 2000.
Morgan Wilk is on evenings from 7pm to midnight.
Fred Gough, news director, delivers the midday and afternoon Country 102.9 News. He has worked at the station since 1981, first as a disc jockey and later moving into the news department. Fred Gough is News Director for all 3 of Eagle's Hutchinson stations and is assisted by Rod Zook covering morning news.
KHUT is also the flagship station for the Hutchinson High School Salthawks football and basketball and the Hutchinson Community College Blue Dragons football and basketball. Country 102.9 sports crew includes Sports Director Rusty Hilst, Glen Grunwald, Daren Dunn, and Rob Dreher.
History
KHUT's predecessor, KWBW-FM was the first commercial FM station in central Kansas. A sister station to KWBW-AM, it began broadcasting June 15, 1947 on 95.7 MHz. The stations were owned by William Wyse.[2]
References
- ↑ "KHUT Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
- ↑ "KWBW-FM Makes Debut" (PDF). Broadcasting. June 16, 1947. Retrieved 28 September 2014.