KRMP

KRMP
City	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Broadcast area	Oklahoma City area
Branding	Heart & Soul 92.1 & 1140
Slogan	"The Beat Of The City"
Frequency	1140 kHz
Translator(s)	92.1 K221FQ (Oklahoma City)
First air date	1946
Format	Urban adult contemporary
Power	1,000 watts (day only)
Class	D
Facility ID	63794
Callsign meaning	K Russell M Perry (station owner)
Former callsigns	KLPR, KATT, KPRW, KVSP
Owner	Perry Broadcasting Company
Sister stations	KVSP
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	okcheartandsoul.com

KRMP (1140 AM) is an urban adult contemporary radio station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The station is owned by The Perry Broadcasting Company. The station's studios are located at Perry Plaza II in the Eastside district of Northeast Oklahoma City, and the transmitter site is in the Southeast side of the city.

History

KRMP first signed on the air as KLPR. The station went through various formats such as Country and Disco. The call letters later flipped to KATT and started simulcasting Rock with its former sister station KATT-FM 100.5. In the Capitol Hill High School in the 1953-1954 yearbooks they sponsor the station.

In the Spring of 1986, the station dropped simulcasting with KATT-FM and flipped to Urban Contemporary as KPRW "Power 1140". This move came when former Black/Urban station KAEZ-107.7 (Now Classic rock KRXO-FM) went off the air in the Fall of 1985. KPRW had great success with its Urban format, it even scored a 7 share in the ratings making it one of the Top 10 stations in Oklahoma City despite the station being a daytimer. By late 1989 and the early part of 1990, KPRW started losing some of its audience to Top 40 stations KJYO "KJ-103" and KZBS "Z-99" (Now Hot AC KYIS) which were both leaning heavily Dance and Rhythmic at the time. By the latter part of the early 90's KJYO and KZBS both started changing directions in their formats. KJYO went back to a Mainstream Top 40 direction and KZBS started leaning towards an Adult Top 40 direction, eventually becoming Hot AC KYIS "98.9 Kiss-FM", but it was too late for KPRW to regain its audience. Around that time KPRW dropped its Urban format and became a Business News/Talk format as "Power Business News 1140" once again leaving Oklahoma City without an Urban station. The format lasted for about 2 years when it was dropped and KPRW started simulcasting Rock with KATT-FM again.

In 1993 Russell Perry purchased KPRW and changed the format back to Urban as KVSP "Power Jammin' 1140" filling the void as the Urban station in Oklahoma City, since the market had been without such a station since the early 1990s. The station once again had success by becoming the Top 10 station in Oklahoma City. KVSP was faced with competition in 2000, when new Rhythmic Top 40 KKWD "Wild 97dot9" (Now at 104.9) signed on the air (Changing from Smooth Jazz KCYI) leaning heavily towards Hip-Hop & R&B with a mix of Dance and some Pop, this hurt KVSP a little bit. By this time the station signed an agreement with Clear Channel to purchase airtime on KEBC-1340 and broadcast KVSP's Urban format from 7pm-7am right after KVSP signed off at sunset on AM 1140 calling it "The Power Jammin' Network".

In 2004, Perry Broadcasting purchased Country station KRPT-103.5 in Anadarko, Oklahoma, the signal was upgraded to target Oklahoma City. The KVSP call letters and Urban format were moved to the FM dial and it became "Power 103.5" targeting a younger audience with its format. That same year AM 1140 changed to its current format Urban Adult Contemporary as KRMP "The Touch 1140". KRMP also airs Talk and Infomercials in certain dayparts with addition to music. It also airs Tom Joyner in the morning and previously aired Michael Baisden in the afternoon until his cancellation at the end of March 2013. Since then the station has replaced the show with local talent in the afternoons. In 2012, KRMP relaunched the station as "Heart & Soul 92.1 and 1140" with the addition of translator K221FQ on 92.1, allowing the station to broadcast 24 hours on FM once AM 1140 signs off at sunset.

Translator

Call sign	Frequency (MHz)	City of license	Facility ID	ERP W	Height m (ft)	Class	FCC info
K221FQ	92.1 MHz	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	77231	99 kW	386 m (1,266 ft)	D	FCC

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KRMP

Radio-Locator Information on KRMP

Radio stations in the Oklahoma City metropolitan market

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 88.9 89.3 89.5 90.1 90.9 91.7 92.1 92.5 92.5-2 92.5-3 92.9 93.3 93.9 93.9 94.1 94.7 94.7-2 95.1 95.3 96.1 96.5 96.9 97.3 98.1 98.9 99.3 99.7 100.1 100.5 100.9 101.1 101.3 101.5 101.9 102.7 103.1 103.5 103.7 104.1 104.5 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.3 106.7 107.3 107.7 107.7-2 107.7-3

By AM frequency	640 740 800 890 930 1000 1140 1220 1340 1400 1460 1490 1520¹ 1560 1640

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400

By callsign	K261DP K208CG K225BN K231BH K243BJ K253BV K266BG K268BR K276EX K283BW K297BB KATT-FM KBRU KEBC KGHM KGOU KINB KIMY KHVJ-LP KJKE KJTH KJYO KKNG-FM KKWD KMFS KMGL KMSI KNAH KOKC¹ KOKF KOMA KOMA-HD2 KOMA-HD3 KOSU KPCG-LP KQCV KQCV-FM KQOB KREF KRMG KRMP KROU KRXO-FM KRXO-HD2 KRXO-HD3 KSMJ-LP KSSO KTLR KTLV KTOK KTST KTUZ-FM KUCO KVSP KWDW-LP KWPN KXXY-FM KYIS KYLK KYLV KZLS KZTH KZUE KZUC-LP WKY WWLS-FM WXK85

Nearby radio markets Dallas–Fort Worth Lawton Tulsa Wichita See also List of radio stations in Oklahoma ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage.

Urban Contemporary Radio Stations in the state of Oklahoma

Stations	KALU - Langston KGTO - Tulsa KJMM - Bixby KJMZ - Cache KKRX - Lawton KRMP - Oklahoma City KVSP - Oklahoma City KXCA - Lawton

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Oklahoma

Daytime-Only radio stations in Oklahoma

Stations	KETU - Catoosa KPGM - Pawhuska KRMP - Oklahoma City KSEO - Durant KSPI - Stillwater KTLR - Oklahoma City KTUZ - Catoosa KVIS - Miami KXTD - Wagoner KZUE - El Reno

See also: Clear channel radio stations and Why AM Radio Stations Must Reduce Power, Change Operations, or Cease Operations at Night

Coordinates: 35°23′14″N 97°29′56″W / 35.38722°N 97.49889°W / 35.38722; -97.49889

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