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KSHE is a rock & roll radio station licensed to Crestwood, Missouri which serves the Greater St. Louis area. KSHE is located at 94.7 MHz and currently uses the slogan "KSHE 95, Real Rock Radio". The station's studios have been located in the Powerhouse building at St. Louis Union Station since the 1990s, while the transmitter is located in Shrewsbury. KSHE is owned by Emmis Communications and has been since 1984.

KSHE's recently^[when?] announced its first HD Radio subchannel, which will broadcast a 24-hour version of longtime personality John Ulett's "KSHE Klassics" show.

History [link]

KSHE started broadcasting in 1961, playing rock music targeted towards women^{[citation needed]} (hence, the reason for the "SHE" in KSHE). In 1967 KSHE changed its format to Progressive Rock eventually evolving to Album-Oriented Rock as time went on. Its first song after the change was "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1970s and early 1980s, KSHE was influential in the growth of many midwestern bands such as Styx, REO Speedwagon and Head East. KSHE had a wide and varied play list, which popularized such rock artists as Lake from Germany and Stingray from South Africa as well as playing the classics from the more well-known rock legends.^{[citation needed]}

KSHE sometimes played nonstop for up to four hours, until they got into trouble with the FCC.^{[citation needed]} KSHE would frequently play concept albums in their entirety, as well as entire album sides from favorites such as Rush.^{[citation needed]} Sunday evenings were dedicated to playing seven albums from seven different artists on a show called the Seventh Day.^{[citation needed]} The albums usually were played from 7:00 pm until after midnight. The Seventh Day concept was later used by other stations around the country^{[citation needed]}

Instead of the broadcast convention of reading news ripped from the Associated Press or United Press International wire machine ("rip and read"), early KSHE newscasts introduced news topics by preceding the story with rock music excerpts that had lyrics introducing or commenting on the topic.^[1]

KSHE created a virtual museum on its website as a way of celebrating its 40th birthday. It contains video clips, audio clips, pictures and memorabilia. The first inductees (2007) were Rush, Kiss, Ted Nugent, and REO Speedwagon.

In March 2010, KSHE held its annual March Bandness - the third longest version of this contest in the US.^[2] Along with the typical classic rock, KSHE's format also includes standard modern rock. KSHE also has various sub-genres for various times of day, such as Hair Band Doran (DJ: Mike Doran) from 8pm-9pm weekdays (previously called 80's at 8 under the previous DJ, Katy Kruze) and Monday Night Metal with Tom "Real Rock" Terbrock (producer and co-host of 97.1 Talk's Dave Glover Show) on Tuesday nights from 9 pm to midnight (originally on Monday night at 10 pm with Radio/Radical Rich from the mid 80s until 87 when it was moved to Tuesday night, until it was canceled in the mid 90s; returning with Terbrock in the summer of 2006).

Mascot [link]

The station mascot is a sunglass-wearing pig named Sweet Meat, a likeness of which originally appeared on the 1969 Blodwyn Pig album Ahead Rings Out.^{[citation needed]} Like the pig pictured on the LP cover, Sweet Meat first appeared with a joint in his mouth. This "controversial" detail disappeared in the early '80s. It has now^[when?] since returned.

Currently on KSHE [link]

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The program line-up for KSHE starts at midnight with Tommy T. Tommy works from midnight until 5 o'clock am. Tommy hosts the 3 am Rock Magazine which features an artist or theme for the entire hour.

The KSHE morning show starts at 5:00 am. until 1:00 pm, hosted by John Ulette (The U-Man) and Lern . At noon John hosts the Lone Klassic. It is a music program that features an artist at the noon hour and the KSHE Klassics show on Sundays.

Favazz is the afternoon drive anchor. From 1:00 in the afternoon until 6 pm Favazz runs features such as "The Daily Dose Of Led Zeppelin", "The Rock Report" and "The Sports Ticker" Also is co-host of KSHE's "Food Dudes" program.

From 6 pm through midnight is Mike Doran. Mike also hosts a 1980s rock hour, called Hair Band Doran starting at 8 o'clock in the evening Monday-Friday.

Lern, the station's newest personality, is on the air from 12pm-6pm on Sunday afternoons.

Former on-air staff [link]

• Bill Addison (first voice on the air)
• Gary Bennett
• Bob Burch, 1970s
• J.C. Corcoran
• Don Corey
• Sue Daniel
• Ron Elz (aka Johnny Rabbit), late 1960s
• Joy Gridnic
• Ted Habeck
• Rev. Steve Hammond "The Gatekeeper" (Now doing afternoon drive at 97.5 WONE in Akron, Ohio, his home town)^[3]
• Al Hofer
• Ruth Hutchison
• Karen Klaus (newsreader) (now with St. Louis Arts & Education Council^[4])
• Drew Johnson
• Mark Klose
• Gary Kolander
• Katy Kruze
• Prince Knight
• Joe "Mama" Mason
• Randy Raley
• Vince Richards
• Jack Silver
• Jim Singer
• Ron Stevens
• Ken Suitter

References [link]

1. ^ https://www.kshe95.com/museum/index.aspx
2. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Bandness/
3. ^ https://www.wone.net/airstaff.asp/
4. ^ https://www.keeparthappening.org/

External links [link]

• Official website
• KSHE 95 Station History & KSHE Classics
• Query the FCC's FM station database for KSHE
• Radio-Locator information on KSHE
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for KSHE

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