| City of license | San Antonio, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | San Antonio, Texas |
| Branding | 99.5 KISS |
| Slogan | KISS Rocks San Antonio |
| Frequency | 99.5 (MHz) (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | December 1946 |
| Format | Active rock |
| ERP | 97,700 watts |
| HAAT | 453 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 34976 |
| Owner | Cox Radio |
| Sister stations | KCYY, KKYX, KONO, KONO-FM, KTKX, KSMG |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kissrocks.com |
KISS-FM (99.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an active rock format serving the San Antonio, Texas area. The Cox Radio outlet broadcasts at 99.5MHz.
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KISS FM was originally a Show Tunes format which changed to a type of AOR (Album-Oriented Rock) in the late 1970's. The AOR format would last until May 1990 when KISS flipped to Oldies known as 99.5 KISS oldies. The owners of KSMG Magic 105.3 a competing Oldies station at the time bought KISS FM and KOOL 930 AM from Adams Broadcasting Corporation in November of 1991 and simulcasted KSMG on both 99.5 and 930 AM. As of New Years Day of 1992, the rock music format was back on 99.5 KISS, now called "Active Rock".
AOR was sometimes referred to as "All Over (the) Road". In the early years, KISS DJ's were given a free rein. Many brought in their own records/albums to do their shows within a looser, free-form rock, rock ballad & heavy metal format.
Back in the days before corporate consultants, KISS-FM was 12,900 watts and their AM sister station was KMAC. KMAC broadcasted show tunes, opera, as well as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir until they simulcasted the rock format with KISS-FM later in the day/evening. In those earlier years, KISS-FM signed off at midnight each night.
KMAC/KISS was originally owned by the late Howard W. Davis. "Spread The Word" - was the popular window sticker slogan & on-air moniker during the 1970's & 1980's.
Despite being considered a mainstream rock reporter per Mediabase, they are typically an active rock station per Nielsen BDS.
KISS-FM is the legal call sign issued to this San Antonio radio station by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at licensing and is in no way related to the KISS-FM brand name used by Clear Channel Communications. Since Clear Channel has not tried to market its brand in San Antonio, Cox does not seem to mind the use of the name and has not taken any legal action.[1]
Past KISS-FM on-air hosts include Joe Anthony "The Godfather", Lou Roney, Tom "T-Bone" Scheppke, Tempie Lindsey, Debbie "The Electric Lady" Alcocer, Donnie Meals, Rosenda Rios, Nancy Gray, CJ Cruz, George Hamilton, Leif "Loose Leif" Calberg, Mike Shaw, Chuck Stanley, Kevin Vargas, Jave "The Wave" Patterson, Jason Lee Tipton "The Tiptonizer", Sandy Castle, Mark Champion, Jabreel Khalid, John Lisle, Steve Hahn and many more.
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