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105.9 FM, Omaha

City of License: Omaha, NE

First Air Date: August 11, 1990

Operating Power: 5,200 watts

Original Call Letters: KKVU

Format: Progressive Adult contemporary/Jazz music mix

General Manager: John Ginzkey

Sales Manager: Darcy Beck

Chief Engineer: John Gaeta

Date of FCC Issue: 1990

Issued To: Vantage Communications (Diny Landon)

Tagged:

Bruce McGregor Darcy Beck Diny Landon Jim McKernan John Gaeta John Ginzkey Otis XII Steve Wexler

1990

August 11, 1990- KKVU The View signs on with a progressive adult contemporary, smooth jazz mix.
1991

November, 1991- Format flips to Classic Rock. Jazz Brunch and Pacific Street Blues remain on Sundays.

Call letters are changed to KKCD.
1992

Former KEZO Program Director Bruce McGregor joins staff and brings in Otis Twelve for mornings the following year.
1995

KKCD is sold to WTMJ/Milwaukee Journal (later Journal Broadcast Group) for $3.5 million. Studios are moved to 11128 John Galt Blvd with co-owned KEZO. Signal is upgraded to 50,000 watts at 479 feet with a new tower in South Omaha at 27th and I Streets.
1998

McGregor and Otis Twelve leave. Syndicated Bob & Tom take over mornings for a year.
2000

Journal Operations Manager and Station Manager Jim McKernan is replaced by Steve Wexler.
2006

Studios move to 5030 North 72nd Street, Omaha.
2014

Journal Broadcast Group merges with E.W. Scripps Company (Milwaukee). Studios are moved into KMTV building on Mockingbird Drive in Omaha.
2015

E.W. Scripps group obtains rights to University of Nebraska Husker sports, KKCD to air peripheral games.
2018

November, 2018- Scripps sells stations to Summit Media (Birmingham, AL) is a four-market $47 million deal.

Studios move to Aksarben Village, 6700 Mercy Road, Omaha.
2020

KKCD is rebranded as “Classic Rock 105.9.”