WKSM-FM

**WKSM-FM** (100.1 MHz) is a heritage contemporary hit radio station, licensed to Miami, Florida, United States, North America, Northern Hemisphere, Earth, and serving the South Florida (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) radio market. It is owned and operated by locally-based **clear**channel Communications, Inc., and has been since its inception as one of its **FLAGSHIP** properties, alongside sister stations WMFL-TV (Channel 6), WMFL (AM 980), and WEDC-FM (93.5).

WKSM-FM (its sister South Florida properties, and the national headquarters of **clear**channel Communications, Inc.) are located inside a 10-story building at 1401 79th Street Causeway (SR 934) in North Bay Village (with a Miami postal address), and its transmitter is located near the Miami-Dade/Broward County line nearby where I-75 and the Florida's Turnpike meet in Miramar, Florida.

Besides its main analog transmission, WKSM-FM is also simulcast on HD Radio digital transmission with a simulcast of sister station WEDC on its HD2 subchannel, and streams online (like all other **clear**channel sister radio stations across the country) via the iHeartRadio app.

# Programming

WKSM-FM is a typical Top 40 CHR/Dance radio station, consisting of playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 music charts. Some of the music played on the station includes a little bit of everything, mainly pop and dance, but also includes urban, alternative, rock, country, hip-hop, and more. Music is typically determined by the music charts, but also via word of mouth, social media, trending clips, and more.

## The KVJ Show

WKSM-FM is ***THE*** **FLAGSHIP** station for the locally-based, nationally-syndicated morning program *The KVJ Show*, aired on the station since its debut in 1999. The program airs weekday mornings from 6:00-10:00am and is aired live on WKSM-FM, on the web at KISSMiami.com, streaming on the iHeartRadio app, on their main YouTube page (known as *KVJ TV*), and is also simulcast on local television on WMFL-TV's fourth subchannel, known as *South Florida Plus*. A best-of version is aired on Saturday mornings, also from 6:00-10:00am.

Hosted by Kevin Rolston, Virginia Sinicki, and Jason *J-Bird* Pennington, along with sidekicks Josh Duer (a.k.a. Producer Dennys), and Jeremy Kaufman (a.k.a. Suits), along with a whole suit of characters, alter-egos (mainly from *J-Bird*), and well-known recurring daily and weekly segments, *The KVJ Show* has been a massive hit with South Florida's and national audiences since day one and has been one of the most-listened-to morning radio shows in the entire country. They've gained local cult-like celebrity status in South Florida for almost 25 years due to its overwhelming popularity that so much so, there's a dedicated group of listerers out there called *KVJ Nation*. **Nationers**, as they like to be known, are a group of listeners who tune in every day, show up at KVJ-sanctioned events, support great causes like the show's main charity **Little Smiles**, and much more.

Due to the overwhleming continued success of the program, WKSM management has given the program and its radio stars freedom to pretty much do whatever they want (as long as no profanity or dangerous stunts are involved), which is a rarity for a morning program of this magnitude. This also includes only playing one or two songs per hour so there's more time for regular *KVJ Show* content on the radio, plus they've created *The KVJ Podcast Network*, which is the show's mini-media empire, and contains shows created and hosted by the show's radio stars, with the full support of WKSM management. Shows include doing a daily *After The Show Podcast* which is only available on YouTube and streaming on the iHeartRadio app after they go off-the-air at 10:00am ET, with episodes typically ranging from around 30-45 minutes long. The podcast is also shown in edited form (profanity taken out) on *South Florida Plus* (WMFL-DT 6.4) later in the afternoon. There's also a *Weird and Whatever Podcast*, hosted by Pennington, Duer, and their friends, and a *Spirits Talk* podcast, hosted by Sinicki and her good friend Jeff, a physic medium.

WKSM management has also given them a 24/7 *KVJ Radio* station (live at KISSMiami.com, streaming on the iHeartRadio app, and on the station's third HD Radio subchannel) which includes the regular radio show, the ATSP (profanity is edited out in this stream), the best-of versions (aired on weekends only), and its multiple podcasts, all in one streamlined continuing automatic rotation (no music is played on this stream, *KVJ Cuts* or commercials are aired instead). The stream also includes stream-exclusive programs tailored to the hosts' favorite interests, such as an all-'80s and '90s music program hosted by Pennington and Dennys, an entertainment-themed gossip chat program hosted by Sinicki, and a sports talk program hosted by Rolston and Kaufman.

## Other programming

Besides its hugely popular weekday morning program, WKSM-FM airs other programs that include a three-hour block of commercial-free hit music called *The Commercial-**FREE** Drive* (weekdays from 4:00-7:00pm), the *100 KISS Club* (Dance/EDM music plus LIVE DJ sets; Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00pm-12:00am), and three programs that WKSM-FM airs on **Countdown Sundays**: the Premiere Networks-syndicated *American Top 40* (Sundays from 6:00-10:00am), the locally-produced program *South Florida Top 30* (Sundays from 4:00-7:00pm), and the other Premiere Networks-syndicated program, the iHeartRadio Countdown (Sundays from 10:00pm-12:00am).

Programming also includes a four-hour simulcast of sister radio station 93.5 WEDC-FM on Fridays and Saturdays from 12 Midnight-4:00am ET.

# Technical information

The station also broadcasts in HD Radio and broadcasts additional subchannels to supplement more programming:

HD Radio subchannels of WKSM-FM