KRKI

KRKI
	MHz)
Branding	True Country 99.5/107.9
Programming
Format	Country
Affiliations	ABC News Radio
Ownership
Owner	Oregon Trail Broadcasting, LLC; (Bad Lands Broadcasting Company, Inc.);
Sister stations	KFMH; KXZT;
History
Former call signs	KVAM (2000)
Technical information
Facility ID	89114
Class	C1
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	224 meters (735 ft)
Repeater(s)	99.5 KRKI-FM1 (Rapid City); 107.9 KXZT (Newell);
Links
Webcast	Listen live
Website	truecountry995.com

KRKI (99.5

radio station licensed to serve Keystone, South Dakota. The station serves Rapid City, South Dakota, with an on-channel broadcast booster licensed as KRKI-FM1. The station is owned by Oregon Trail Broadcasting, LLC, through licensee Bad Lands Broadcasting Company, Inc. KRKI airs a Country format.^[1]

History

The station signed on in 2000 as KVAM (changing its

call letters to KRKI later that year) with a rhythmic format as Hip Hop Radio serving Newcastle, Wyoming. In 2007, the station upgraded to 100,000 watts and moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, with a format flip to the Real Country satellite network as US 99.5. On January 5, 2009, KRKI switched to a 24-hour simulcast of ESPN Radio becoming the first full-time sports talk station in the Rapid City market.^[2]

On April 1, 2012, KRKI changed affiliations from ESPN Radio to Fox Sports Radio, while KTOQ switched to ESPN Radio the same day.^[3]

On October 8, 2012, it branded itself "99-5 The Range" and adopted the

Classic Country format.^[4]

On November 29, 2012, KRKI's city of license was changed from Newcastle, Wyoming to Keystone, South Dakota.

As of February 17, 2017 KRKI updated its music format and rebranded as "True Country 99.5" adopting a Country format featuring top-10 Country hits from 1988 to 2012.

On April 14, 2017, KRKI added KXZT 107.9 as a simulcast. KXZT's transmitter is located on top of Terry Peak to allow True Country 99.5/107.9 to broadcast the same signal north of Belle Fourche to down south of Chadron, Nebraska as well as all of northeastern Wyoming making it the largest FM signal in the Rapid City/Black Hills area.