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WKKV-FM, also known as ''V-100.7 Jams'', is an urban contemporary owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. serving the Milwaukee area. The station broadcasts at 100.7 MHz on the FM dial with an ERP of 50 kW and is licensed to Racine, Wisconsin. Its studios are located in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield and the transmitter site is in Raymond. The playlist of ''V-100.7'' consists of primarily current hip-hop and R&B, but airs slower R&B and classic soul songs on its ''Quiet Storm'' program in the weekday late night hours. At 50,000 watts, WKKV's signal is one of the strongest in the area, and can travel over Lake Michigan into the state of Michigan. V-100.7 can be heard locally as far west as Madison, Wisconsin, north to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, south into the Chicago suburbs, and east to South Haven, Michigan, Fremont, Michigan, Ludington, Michigan, and beyond. Due to its tower lying in close proximity to the open waters of Lake Michigan, both its analog and digital signal can travel with local quality in excess of 120 miles to the east without interference. WKKV is home to the annual "Jam 4 Peace" concert. == History == The original call letters were WRJN-FM, shared with its then-sister station. WRJN-FM began broadcasting August 26, 1948. It was licensed to Racine Broadcasting Corporation. In early 1969, the owner of another Racine station, WRAC, purchased WRJN-FM for $60,000.〔http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/69-OCR/BC-1969-03-17-Page-0058.pdf〕 A few months later, the station became WRAC-FM.〔http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/69-OCR/BC-1969-07-21-Page-0062.pdf〕 In December 1970, WRAC-FM flipped to a rock-based Top 40 format with the WRKR call sign, primarily targeting Racine, Kenosha and the southern part of Milwaukee County. They were known at various times as ''"The Rocker 100 FM"'', ''"Hot 100"'' and ''"Hitradio 100"''. WRKR gradually started targeting the whole Milwaukee market. At one time, WRKR was the Milwaukee-area affiliate of ''American Top 40''. Due to heavy Top 40 competition, WRKR began adding light R&B music around 1986, and for less than a year were called ''"Heartbeat 100"'' (WHBT-FM). WHBT-FM was the first "rhythmic adult contemporary" station in the country, 10 years before pioneer WAMG-FM flipped to the format. The WRKR call sign was reassigned by the FCC to a Kalamazoo, MI station about that time, where it remains today. In 1987, the station became new-age music-formatted WBZN-FM (''Breezin' 100.7''). The station flipped to Urban contemporary in June 1991, becoming WKKV-FM a.k.a. ''The New V-100 FM''. After many years, the "Doug Banks Morning Show" ended in December 2007, and the station replaced him with Steve Harvey. After six years, Harvey was dropped in August 2013, and WKKV became the charter affiliate of the New York-based ''Breakfast Club''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WKKV-FM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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