KISS-XM

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KISS XM
Broadcast area	United States
Branding	KISS cm
Frequency	XM 21
First air date	September 25, 2001
Format	Top 40/CHR
Class	Satellite Radio Station
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Sister stations	XM11, XM22, XM24, XM152, XM154, XM157, XM158, XM165
Website	Kiss XM

KISS (also branded as KISS XM and KISS 21) is a commercial radio channel on XM Satellite Radio. It is located on XM21 and plays the chart hits from 1999 to the present, with 1980s and 1990s hip-hop and R & B hits mixed in. The channel is programmed out of Nashville, Tennessee by Larry Morgan. Advertising sales are handled by Premiere Radio Networks.

[edit] KIIS/KVVS (2001-2003)

As part of an investment deal with Clear Channel Communications, XM agreed to simulcast some of Clear Channel's FM radio stations until they were able to afford their own programming. KISS was one of those channels, and it simulcasted KIIS/KVVS in Los Angeles, California. The station was titled KIIS FM (pronounced Kiss), similar to Clear Channel's chain of KISS-FM stations around the country. Due to low subscription count at the time, the audience didn't concern themselves with the Los Angeles locality of the station. After a couple years on the air, XM decided to move away from local simulcasts, first programming Kiss in-house but simulcasting the KIIS morning show but then that was dropped and KISS became an exclusive-to-satellite station.

[edit] KISS XM (2003- )

On December 1, 2003, the KIIS simulcast was dropped and KISS developed its own identity under the KISS-XM name. The station was now on autopilot 24/7 with no jocks but was programmed by Kevin Kash of Washington, DC's WWDC. A month later, KISS, in addition to all XM music channels, went commercial free, making the station auto-piloted 24/7 by music.

By February 2004, KIIS-FM and Premiere Radio Networks disc jockey Rick Dees was returned to the channel with both his Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 and Rick Dees in the Morning shows, thus restoring the morning portion of the old KIIS simulcast. This would be short lived, as only a few months later Clear Channel announced Rick Dees would no longer be working for the company. With that, KISS XM went jockless once again. Right now, there are no plans to add DJs to the channel, despite it being one of the few on XM that is jockless.

In March 2006, according to a 10-k filing, XM Satellite Radio mentioned that Clear Channel programmed music on XM would begin carrying commercials, including KISS. This has been done to fulfill an arbitration settlement between XM and Clear Channel. In response to this, XM Canada, DirecTV and AOL Radio removed this channel on 4/17/06 in favor of XM's commercial free equivalent. KISS now displays a "cm" next to its name on the XM unit's pad data to indicate that it is a commercial radio station. For a short period of time, KISS did not display song information on the XM unit's pad. Originally, Clear Channel opted to have static pad data on all of its channels, but due to complaints they acquired the hardware to properly display individual track information on the units.

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• Kiss XM

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