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KMOD-FM (97.5 FM) is a rock music radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by Clear Channel...

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KMOD-FM (97.5 FM) is a rock music radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by Clear Channel Communications. The station plays a wide variety of rock music from the 1960s through today. The station is best known as the home of Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, disk jockeys who originated the character Roy D. Mercer, the notorious and popular prank caller who regularly threatened to "open a can of whup-ass" on the person he called (for some fabricated wrong the person supposedly had done), only for the person to find out the call was a prank. Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn was also a DJ at this station, known as Jeannie Summers, back in the 80s before she made her break in the movies. The original radio station KMOD, Modesto, California, went on the air in 1950 at 1360 kilocycles AM as an affiliate of the American Broadcasting Company Radio Network at 1,000 watts. Although for a brief period of time it had studios in the Hotel Covel in downtown Modesto, the main studios and transmitter site were on east Orangeburg Avenue five miles outside of Modesto in the midst of walnut and fruit orchards and pasture land on which was erected three towers for the directional signal. The station was housed

Created by: Freebase Data Team Oct 23, 2006
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