“. . . and the ship’s wise men
will remind you once again,
that the whole wide world is watching!

Oh the foes will rise,
with the sleep still in their eyes,
and they’ll jerk from their beds
and think they’re dreamin’,

But they’ll pinch themselves and squeal,
and know that it’s for real,
the hour when the ship comes in

And they’ll raise their hands
saying we’ll meet all your demands,
But we’ll shout from the bow,
‘your days are numbered’!

And like pharaoh’s tribe
they’ll be drownded in the tide,
and like Goliath,
they’ll be conquered!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c9_XkYYjTU

At the Mainmark Building on 1627 Main Street in Kansas City.

Program guides are different from newsletters which usually contain only a couple of pages and don’t have detailed information or advertising.

The first program guide for KKFI was created in the Spring of 1988, after the burst of enthusiasm that happened when the station finally went on the air in 1988. Several volunteers became involved producing it including Kevin Dowd, Matt Quinn, Tish Hinton, Ann Eads, and Syd Baker. It was a multi-page magazine-style publication.

Originally, the program guides were published on a quarterly basis. Next, the Fall, 1988 Radio Wave program guide.

To pay for the early program guides, they were self-sustaining – volunteers sold advertising space in the publication to community groups and area companies. The final 1988 program guide was published in December.

The Spring, 1989 Radio Wave celebrated KKFI’s first birthday on the air!

The Next Radio wave was published for the Summer of 1989.

The Radio Wave for the Fall of 1989.

The Radio Wave, Winter, 1989.

1990 Radio Wave, summer edition.

1990 Radio Wave, winter edition.

1991 Program Guide.

1992 Program Guide

1995 Program Guide.

The 1999 Program guide. put together largely by Linda Wilson, expanded to rival the early program guides in length,

When KKFI first went on the air, it was not for a full 24 hours. This news release shows how the program schedule now would be expanded to a full day and night.

This KKFI article appeared in the 20th Anniversary winter Communiversity Catalog. KKFI was given an award because the station began in a communiversity course in 1977.

The Radio Wave Program Guide had 24 pages for the summer edition.

An editorial published in September in the Kansas City Star. Several volunteers had been suspended for allegedly allowing indecent words to be broadcast over the airwaves. After an article in the Star appeared complaining about the suspension of one person, the Star allowed a rebuttal to be published. The editorial points out that the Star refused to print the words in question because it was a “family” newspaper – while KKFI is not allowed to air these words because of FCC rules.

Winter 1990 Radio Wave Program Guide.

Due to a raise in rent at the Mainmark Building in the Crossroads District, KKFI faced another crisis. It had to move, and a new location was found in Kansas City’s Westport area by Sara Crane.

A new studio location where KKFI would exist for years was found at 900 1/2 Westport Road in Kansas City.