KRPP (FM)

KRPP (94.7 FM) is a Adult Hits radio station in serving the. The station is owned by, with it's studios in the on Genessee Street in  and it's transmitter on the / tower at the intersection of East 23rd Street and Topping Avenue in the city's Blue Valley section.

Moving from Illinois
The 94.7 frequency has been in the, licensed to , since 1996. Before then, it had been licensed to as WASQ, signed-on in 1955 by the Associated Stations Corporation of. In the 1980s, WASQ aired a Top 40 format as "Hits 94". (After the move, the WASQ callsign was shifted to sister station KSSJ in ).

Interested in moving the station 381 miles west to the more lucrative Kansas City radio market, then-owner Ernest Di Paolo proposed to the FCC that WASQ be re-licensed to with it's transmitter on the  tower in St. Joseph. It would remain at 100,000 watts effective radiated power (ERP) as a Class C station. However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that the proposed transmitter site was "not feasible" as St. Joseph had it's own, smaller radio market, and because the distance between Raytown and St. Joseph would result in a weaker signal in some parts of the Kansas City area. Additionally, an agreement with KQTV owners TCS Television Partners for renting tower space fell through.

After exhausting his funds in pursuit of the reallocation, Ernest sold WASQ and it's St. Joseph, Missouri sister station KSSJ to. In a revised application before the FCC, Clear Channel proposed a different city of license,. The FCC approved the application, mostly because the new application would have downgraded the class of the station from C (up to 100 kW at 600 meters or 1968 feet) to C2 (up to 50 kW at 150 meters or 492 feet) to protect nearby Kansas and Missouri stations on 94.7 FM. When it went on the air in Kansas City, the station was powered at only 45½ kW, using a owned by the  that was situated in.

X94
94.7's first format in Kansas City was Top 40 station WASX ("X94"), which made it's debut on January 7, 1996, with it's first song being "Enid" by the Barenaked Ladies. Despite it's slightly weaker signal, WASX often received higher Arbitron listenership ratings than its competitors, including (Mix 93.3). WASX often emphasized the then-hot teen-pop movement and stars like Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Spice Girls, and *NSYNC, while also giving attention to "crossover" artists such as Alien Ant Farm and Plus One, unlike other Top 40 stations in the area.

In September 2000, WASX program director Rick Bruland added "Jam on That Beat" by HeartsClub to it's playlist after returning from with a club CD of the track, and eventually other radio stations nationally followed suit. This encouraged Domino Music SRL to partner with to market it as a single in the US. On February 24, 2001, the song reached number one in the United States.

Clear Channel continued to pursue a larger signal for the station, eventually earning approval from the FCC to go back from Class C2 to Class C. The upgrade occurred on October 24, 2001 at 5:00 PM, when the station moved from the Martin City cell tower to the tower in Blue Valley.

94.7 RPP
On August 4, 2005, Clear Channel announced that WASX's Top 40 format would move to KMCI-FM on 107.1 FM. On August 19, 2005, WASX began stunting with a "wheel of formats", running different format blocks that changed with every few songs - these formats included modern rock, R&B, easy-listening, Spanish-language hits, oldies, and Rhythmic AC. Listeners had the option to call the station and vote on which format was their favorite. On the same day, KMCI-FM flipped from hot talk to Top 40/CHR as "Channel 107". On August 21, Clear Channel announced the hiring of a new morning show, Reggie and Paul's Paradise out of, for WASX.

On August 24, 2005, WASX changed it's callsign to KRPP (reflecting the new morning show) and flipped to the winning "Wheel of Formats" format block, adult hits as 94.7 RPP.