| City of license | Collinsville, IL |
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| Broadcast area | Greater St. Louis |
| Branding | The Point |
| Slogan | Everything Alternative |
| Frequency |
105.7 MHz FM (HD Radio) 105.7-2 FM "New Alternative" |
| First air date | 1967 |
| Format | Modern Rock |
| ERP | 64,000 watts |
| HAAT | 218 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 56525 |
| Callsign meaning | the P oi N T |
| Owner | Emmis Communications |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.1057thepoint.com |
KPNT is a commercial radio station licensed to Collinsville, IL, broadcasting to the St. Louis, Missouri area on 105.7 FM. KPNT airs a mainly modern rock music format with just a hint of active rock branded as "The Point".
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KPNT signed on in 1967 with the call letters, KSGM-FM. In 1987, the radio station completed a signal upgrade giving the radio station signal coverage of the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area. KSGM-FM launched an adult contemporary music format with the new call letters, KSTZ.
On March 6, 1991, KSTZ was rebranded as "The Fox" with a new set of call letters, KFXB to better match new branding. KFXB began a simulcast on sister station WFXB (now WXOS on 101.1 FM).
The simulcast was broken in February 1993, when KFXB adopted the current call letters, KPNT, with a modern rock music format, partly inspired by the runaway success of Saint Louis's first full-time alternative rock music station, KYMC, a small non-profit station broadcasting out of Ballwin.
In 2006, KPNT expanded the playlist to include a wider variety of modern rock artists with still a strong emphasis on active rock leaning artists. The new slogan, "Everything Alternative" was adopted to promote this change.
A feature known as "My Shuffle" was promoted on their website allowing listeners to create their own five-song playlist. Some of the listener's five-song playlists air on KPNT during a show known as the "My Shuffle Lunch" program which airs at 12:00PM or during specialty "My Shuffle Weekends."
The Point's first morning show was Sarah and Maryellen. Later came personalities Jeff Burton, Trish Gazall, and Thom West. They then picked up Howard Stern after the station merged with then Extreme Radio 104.1 (WXTM-FM). After the demise of The Howard Stern Show which moved to Sirius Satellite Radio, KPNT added the syndicated Cleveland based morning show Rover's Morning Glory.
On January 26, 2007, it was announced that the Rover's Morning Glory show was to be replaced by local DJ Donnie Fandango's The Fandango Experiment. According to their website, this was due to many requests for a morning radio show with less talk and more music. The syndicated talk show, Loveline, airs on Sunday-Thursday at 10 pm.
On July 10, 2009, the new morning show was introduced with Woody and Rizzuto; on October 21, 2009 WAR claimed the highest ratings that the station has ever had.
Full-Time On-Air Personalities include: The Woody and Rizzuto Show (with Tony Patrico as producer) (6a-10a) Lux (10a-2p) Donnie Fandango (2p-7p) Drew (7p-10p) Sundays (12a-1a) THE SUNDAY NIGHT RITUAL Part-Time On Air Personalities include: Todd Morgan,Loren,and Tony P. [1]
KPNT is also well known for promoting a biannual music festival known as Pointfest.
KPNT produced a series of compilation albums, featuring tracks submitted by local up and coming artists from throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area. This series of albums is known as Pointessential (stylized as POINTESSENTIAL). Bands featured in the Pointessential series before they became well known have included Gravity Kills, The Urge, Stir, Modern Day Zero, Cavo, Autovein, and Story of the Year. The CD series was an annual release from 1994 through 1999. After KPNT was sold to Emmis Communications, the series was temporarily suspended. It was brought back again in 2002 after a three year break when the station renewed its commitment to the local music scene in St. Louis.[2]
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