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KMOD-FM (97.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. It airs an active rock radio format. The station's studios and offices are at the Tulsa Events Center on South Yale Avenue in Southeast Tulsa.
KMOD-FM is a Class C station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations. The transmitter tower is along Oklahoma State Highway 97 on the Osage Reservation in Sand Springs. Radio-Locator.com/KMOD KMOD-FM broadcasts in the HD Radio digital format.http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=64 HD Radio Guide for Tulsa Its HD2 subchannel plays alternative rock.
KOCW was sold to Dawson Communications/Turnpike Broadcasting Corporation in 1968 and became KMOD on April 15 of that year. It had a progressive rock format. The call letters represented the word "modern." Clear Channel Communications, the forerunner to today's iHeartMedia, acquired the station in 1973 out of bankruptcy. It became the sister station to 1300 KXXO (now KAKC).
KMOD is known as the nearly 30-year home of disc jockeys Brent Douglas and Phil Stone, who hosted morning drive time. The pair originated the character Roy D. Mercer, the notorious and popular who regularly threatened to "open a can of whup-ass" on the person he called for some fabricated wrong the person supposedly had done. Eventually the person might find out the call was a prank. Stone and Douglas' show was ended due to the latter's refusal to sign a new contract. Stone died in 2012.
Actress Jeanne Tripplehorn was also a DJ at KMOD in the 1980s. She used the air name Jeanne Summers.
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