KIKK
KIKK (650 AM,) is a daytime-only station in the Houston, Texas area and broadcasts a news/talk radio format under ownership of CBS Radio. Despite different owners, KIKK and KHOU-TV maintain a strong partnership (as KHOU is the local CBS television affiliate).
History
KIKK, once known as Business Radio 650, changed formats in 2004 to a Talk radio station under nickname KickAss 650, which became a home for the The Howard Stern Show. After Stern's move to Sirius Satellite Radio, KIKK switched back to a news format. Their early evening schedule was composed of Adult Standards/MOR music until 2008, when Headline News filled the schedule most of the day, but that network's continuous move away from rolling news to focus more on personality talk has caused the station to seek other programming such as the Clark Howard Show, which now takes up most of the station's schedule.
For many years in the 1970s and 1980s 650 was a country music station. It often simulcasted with sister station, the former KIKK-FM.
Program Schedule
KIKK begins their daily broadcasts at 6AM CT (or sunrise) with the latest news headlines from CBS. The weekday schedule, until recently, emphasized local hosts, but in early July 2011, the station switched to an all-syndicated news/talk format[1] with regular breaks for local traffic and weather reports. Programming includes America in the Morning, the long-running national morning newsmagazine show hosted by Jim Bohannon and produced by Westwood One; America's Morning News, hosted by John McCaslin and Dana Mills, and associated with the Washington Times; the Michael Smerconish nationally syndicated call-in talk show; the Todd Schnitt nationally syndicated talk show, and the Atlanta-based nationally syndicated Clark Howard Show, with the broadcast day ending at sunset. Nashville, Tennessee "clear channel" radio station 650 AM WSM shares the same frequency as KIKK, which precludes the Houston station from broadcasting during nighttime hours.
Weekend programming is divided between locally produced shows, brokered programming, and the Clark Howard Show.
Prior to the July 2011 changeover, the daily schedule consisted of a morning drive show hosted by long-time local Houston radio personality Brent Clanton, as well as the Price of Business, a program focusing on business and financial topics, hosted by syndicated columnist Kevin Price (Price's program has apparently been moved to weekends; some of the other local hosts already on the weekend schedule are not affected). The remainder of the broadcast day alternated between other local business programming and the Clark Howard Show.
Former Jocks
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