KMYT (FM)


KMYT is an alternative rock radio station in Temecula, California. The station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc.. The station's webcast is on the iHeartRadio app. KMYT shares studios and offices with co-owned 103.3 KTMQ, as well as the iHeart Riverside - San Bernardino stations, on Iowa Avenue in Riverside.
The transmitter is off Via Labanca in a rural part of Temecula. KMYT is one of few iHeart owned stations to not have an HD Radio signal.

History

This station signed on in 1999 as KTMK, owned by Clear Channel Communications, based in San Antonio. KTMK began simulcasting AM 600 KOGO shortly after it went on the air, the heritage Clear Channel news/talk station in San Diego. Clear Channel wanted a more reliable signal for KOGO in southern Riverside County, which has become a significant suburb of San Diego. The call sign became KOGO-FM in 2001.
One year later, Clear Channel changed the simulcast from KOGO to that of co-owned San Diego hot adult contemporary station 94.1 KMYI. The Temecula station became KMYT
The format lasted for two years until the simulcast was broken and the station flipped to smooth jazz, which would last 10 years. At this point, it became a local station for the Temecula area, alongside co-owned 103.3 KTMQ.
While Smooth Jazz was a popular format in Southern California, achieving high ratings for KTWV Los Angeles and KIFM San Diego, the format began to fade by the early 2000s. KMYT hung on with the format a while longer, but flipped to an Adult Album Alternative format, branded as Radio 94.5, on August 29, 2014.
Clear Channel spun off their radio stations into iHeartMedia in September 2014.
Following KLVJ's switch to CCM in September 2015, KMYT became the only commercially operating Triple A station in Southern California, if not the entire state.
In February 2019, the station unveiled a new logo, still keeping the Radio brand, to be followed nearly one year later by a shift to a CHR-leaning alternative format. This ended commercial AAA radio station existence in Southern California after 24 years, the only AAA left is nonprofit KCSN. The format shift occurred on January 29, 2020, at midnight, with the first song being "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons.

Sports Programming

As of 2019, KMYT is now the radio home of the Lake Elsinore Storm minor league baseball games, which were previously carried on Entercom's country station KXFG 92.9 FM, normally a simulcast of KFRG 95.1 San Bernardino. Storm games are the only brokered programming carried by KMYT.