Radio Stations Broadcasting in Kirksville

Kirksville has a mix of commercial radio, student radio, public radio and religious broadcasting on the local dial.

A useful list needs one important definition first: "local" can mean several different things. A station may be operated in Kirksville, licensed to Kirksville, transmit from the area, or serve Kirksville as a repeater for programming produced elsewhere.

The following are current, documented examples rather than a promise that every receivable regional signal is included.

Frequency	Call sign	Local role
1450 AM / 99.7 FM	KIRX	Kirksville commercial AM plus FM translator
94.5 FM	KRXL	Kirksville commercial FM
93.7 FM	KTUF	Kirksville commercial FM
88.7 FM	KTRM	Truman State student radio
89.7 FM	KKTR	KBIA public-radio repeater from Truman's campus
107.9 FM	KLTE	Bott Radio Network station in Kirksville
90.7 FM	KVSR	Spirit FM signal for Kirksville

KIRX: 1450 AM and 99.7 FM

RadioKV currently identifies KIRX as 1450 AM and 99.7 FM.

The FM frequency is a translator path for the AM station rather than a separate full-power local station with an unrelated identity.

That AM-plus-translator arrangement is common because it gives an established AM service an FM listening option.

KIRX is also historically significant because local-history material places its first broadcast in 1947, making it Kirksville's first radio station. That history belongs in the separate Kirksville radio-history article.

KRXL 94.5 and KTUF 93.7

RadioKV's current station navigation lists:

• KRXL 94.5 "The X"
• KTUF 93.7

These are part of the local commercial-radio landscape alongside KIRX.

This current-reference article does not try to freeze formats forever. Music formats, syndicated programs and branding can change much faster than the station's frequency and call sign.

KTRM 88.7: Truman's student station

The Truman Media Network identifies KTRM at 88.7 FM as Truman State University's student radio station.

TMN says the station broadcasts alternative music, talk programming, news/events and selected Truman sports, and its current materials continue to identify 88.7 as the over-the-air frequency.

KTRM is locally produced student media rather than a relay of another station.

KKTR 89.7: public radio from the Truman campus

KBIA identifies KKTR 89.7 FM as its repeater station broadcasting from the Truman State University campus in Kirksville.

That makes KKTR local in transmitter location but regional in programming relationship: it extends KBIA's public-radio service from Columbia into Kirksville and much of Adair County.

This is a good example of why "Kirksville station" does not always mean "Kirksville studio."

KLTE 107.9: Bott Radio Network

Bott Radio Network's current station directory lists KLTE 107.9 FM in Kirksville.

The station carries Bott's Christian talk and teaching network programming.

Spirit FM in Kirksville

Spirit FM's current listener page advertises 90.7 FM for Kirksville, and its FCC public-file page identifies that signal as KVSR 90.7.

The public-file page also lists KCKV 91.9 as a Kirksville authorization.

That detail matters because an earlier research note had the 91.9 call sign as KCKP. The current Spirit FM public-file page instead identifies the Kirksville 91.9 call sign as KCKV.

Rather than hide that discrepancy, this article uses the current operator record.

Why this is not a list of everything you can hear

With a good antenna and favorable conditions, radios in Northeast Missouri can receive stations from well outside Kirksville.

Those signals are real, but including every distant station would turn a local-station reference into a propagation experiment.

This page focuses on stations that are documented as broadcasting from, licensed to, or specifically serving Kirksville.

For the structures that make broadcasting possible, see Radio Towers Around Kirksville. For how the local dial developed over time, see A History of Radio Broadcasting in Kirksville.

Because station ownership, branding, translators and formats can change, operator and FCC records should be rechecked before treating any radio directory as permanent.