call sign switched to KKHR (KK-HitRadio) the following week on September 2, 1983. KKHR was not a traditional top 40 music format of the time, as the playlist was more stringently limited to 30 songs.

The original KKHR disc jockey staff consisted of Dave Donovan (whose real name is Joe Cipriano), Chris Lance, Todd Parker (replaced by Jack Armstrong several months later), and Mark Hanson. Rich Fields, who would later become the