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KAYQ in Kansas City, at 1190 AM, was originally put on the air by Ed Scott of Denver, Colorado. It went on the air as an adult contemporary station featuring a balanced station between easy listening instrumental music and vocals. With a change of ownership to the Coleman American company in 1975 it became a country music station compteting with KCKN in Kansas City, Kansas. It enjoyed some success within this format before the format change at WDAF a year of two later. During its run against KCKN, KAYQ became a Billboard reporting station, put on two free listener concerts featuring Mickey Gilley, Freddie Hart, Billy Crash Craddock, Johnny Lee, and La Costa, in the first and a year later put on another free concert for listeners that featured T.G. Sheppard, Johnny Paycheck (for George Jones), and Margo Smith.

At the end of 1978 the station was sold and the format went to disco under the new ownership.