City Sikeston, Missouri Frequency 1520 kHz First air date 1966 | Broadcast area Missouri Bootheel Translator(s) 98.9 FM
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Branding AM 1520 and FM 98.9 KRHW | ||
KRHW is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Sikeston, Missouri, United States, the station serves the Southeast Missouri area, and operates on 1520 kHz in the AM radio band. KRHW is owned by Withers Broadcasting Company of Southeast Missouri, LLC. Prior to August 17, 1997, the station's callsign was KMPL.
KRHW's skywave signal has been received as far north as the Quad Cities and Chicago and as far south as New Orleans. However, due to the need to protect the nighttime skywave signals of former class I-B "Clear-Channel" stations KOKC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and WWKB in Buffalo, New York, which also broadcast on 1520 kHz, the station reduces its power to 1,600 watts at night and has an extremely directional antenna pattern aimed to the north and south with thick nulls to the east and west.
Translators
KRHW broadcasts on FM radio translator K255AW on 98.9 MHz to help make up for the shortfall in the station's nighttime signal to the east and west of the main AM station's transmitter site which includes extreme eastern and western portions of its own city of license, Sikeston, and many surrounding rural portions of Scott and New Madrid counties, as well as Stoddard County to the west, Mississippi County to the east, and even far southwestern portions of Cape Girardeau County, far southeastern portions of Bollinger County, and the areas of Alexander County in extreme southern Illinois just west of Cairo and southeast of Cape Girardeau proper. The transmitter site for K255AW is located along the Scott–Stoddard county line.