St. Jude Radiothon 2009
The 2009 Country Cares for St. Jude Kids Radiothon brought to you by Westco Home Furnishings was a great success. There were some really wonderful moments and we got to meet some terrific people like Colby. He's a patient at St. Jude and it was an honor to host him and his family in the studio. It was our great pleasure to meet them and have them share their story with us.
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Steve Richard in Studio
Steve Richard and his band dropped by the studio to chat with Joel and play some great music on November 19th.
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Ryan Casper In Studio
Ryan Casper stopped by the KKOW studio for a visit with J-Dub on July 1st.
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The Biggest Loser!
Jerry Lisenby, contestant on Season 4 of The Biggest Loser, happened by the KKOW studio on his bycicle on June 26th. He and his wife are riding cross country to rais money for the Children's Home in Peoria, Illinois. Jerry was the oldest contestant on the show and also set the record for the most weight lost in a single week at 31 pounds! He's looking great and was a pleasure to interview. Check out their progress and learn more about Jerry on his website: www.JerryLisenby.com.
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Country Fever 2008
Is that Mary Kate and Ashley? No! That's Thom Watts with Jypsi!
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Colgate Country Showdown 2008
The whole KKOW staff came out for the Colgate Country Showdown at Memorial Auditorium on May 31st. Tabitha, Melinda and BJ helped out by handing out door prizes- They were Popular!
The Colgate Country Showdown was sponsored by Memorial Auditorium, University National Bank, Derailed Commodity, and Derksen Buildings.
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Colgate Country Showdown 2008
Nashville Recording Artist, Marci Mitchell performed an accoustic set at the Colgate Country Showdown on May 31st at Memorial Auditorium. Marci kept the crowd entertained while the judges' scores were being tabulated by performing original songs off her upcoming album "Road Trip".
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Colgate Country Showdown 2008
Runner Up- Dustin Treiber of Pittsburg, 2nd Runner Up- Grace Wallace of Carthage and Winner Kamber Cain pose with Thom Watts after the Colgate Country Showdown.
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Colgate Country Showdown 2008
17 year old, Kamber Cain from El Dorado Springs, Missouri won the 2008 Colgate Country Showdown. She moves on to the Kansas State Competition September 14th in Hutchinson! Congratulations Kamber!!!
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Shawna Russell in Studio
Shawna Russell visited Amy in the studio on April 17th. You can find Shawna's album Goddess on iTunes now!
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Todd Elliot
Todd Elliot joined Thom Watts in the studio on April 16th!
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St. John's Life Fair
Thom Watts got to interview Jamie Farr from T.V.'s M.A.S.H. during the St. John's Life Fair at the Legget and Platt Athletic Center on March 29th.
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Tanya Tucker at Buffalo Run Casino
Tanya Tucker brought her famous Christmas show to Buffalo Run Casino as one of only 4 tour stops with Elvis' back up singers! What an honor!
Photos courtesy of Gary Crow
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Tanya Tucker at Buffalo Run Casino
Elvis' backup singers, The Imperials, performed with Tanya Tucker at Buffalo Run on December 14th.
Photos Courtesy of Gary Crow
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Garth Brooks Concert: Trisha
The KKOW Garth Tour Bus departed the station at 4:30 Monday (11/12) bound for the Sprint Center and the Garth Brooks "World Tour".
Trisha Yearwood opened the show. Her first song? Her latest Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love of course! Unfortunately, Mrs. Brooks was feeling a little under the weather and was losing her voice she admitted. She was quite the trooper though performing her hits, "How Do I?", "She's in Love with the Boy", "Xs and Os", and "Wrong Side of Memphis". Those who had seen other nights told us she usually sang a duet with Garth during his set, however, due to her illness she did not perform the duet Monday night.
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Garth Brooks Concert: The Entrance Part I
Garth! Garth! Garth! Finally someone appears on top of the piano, arms spread wide! That's got to be him!... or not. The Fiddle player, Jimmy, had quite the grand entrance!
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Garth Brooks Concert: The Entrance Part II
THERE He is! Garth appeared out of the floor in front of the drum set! Most of the audience was expecting him to drop from the ceiling. Some of our bus riders were told by some nice police officers outside the Sprint Center that he alternated his entrances each night. Some nights he flew... some he appeared from below.
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Garth Brooks Concert: Not a bad seat
The Sprint Center was a really NICE venue! There wasn't a bad seat in the house and if you were too far away to get a good close up look at Garth or Trisha... just check out the Jumbo Tron!
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Garth Brooks Concert: Jammin'
Garth was really great about introducing his band members and back up singers and allowing them their own ovations, even teasing them when audience members had signs for them rather for for Garth, himself! The band member with the most applause? The bass guitar player(on Garth's right in this picture) from Topeka, Kansas. The crowd went crazy... TWICE!!
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Garth Brooks Concert: Memories
After performing many of his hits and a couple newer songs, Garth came back out on stage to perform 2 encores! The second encore was just him and a guitar and he played a few covers including: "Starry Starry Night" by Don McLean, Bob Seger's "Turn the Page", George Strait's "Amarillo by Morning", and Billy Joel's "Piano Man."
Here Garth performs his current single, "More than a Memory".
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Grillin on the Gridiron: 9-22-07
All ages were out to enjoy Family Day on September 22nd.
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Grillin on the Gridiron: 9-22-07
Thom Watts chats with the Tailgater of the Week, Chuck Busset, who had his vehicle all decked out with permanent glittering vinyl decals!
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Grillin' on the Gridiron 8-25-07
General Manager Chris Kelly greets PSU mega fan Jack Overman before the game.
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Grillin' on the Gridiron 8-25-07
Each week we select the Tailgater of the Week to win a prize pack full of goodies!
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Grillin' on the Gridiron 8-25-07
Amy and Farm Director, Emily Zwahlen, worked the tent handing out the popular schedule magnets and registering people to win a grill!
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Colgate Country Showdown
After winning the Pittsburg local Colgate Country Showdown on June 9th, Brandon Schoenhofer of Lawrence, KS takes a moment for a picture with his daughter. Brandon will perform at the Kansas state competition at the KS State Fair in Hutchinson on September 16th at 2PM.
Thank you to all the sponsors who made this year's event possible: University National Bank, John Deere, Derksen Buildings, Derailed Commodity, Pike's Fertilizer, Overhead Door Company and Quailty Connections.
And a special Thank you to the staff and administration of Memorial Auditorium for all their hard work and for hosting the event again this year.
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Colgate Country Showdown
From left to right the 2007 Colgate Country Showdown winners are: In 1st place, Brandon Schoenhofer of Lawrence, KS; in 3rd place, Tammie Bookless of Grove, OK; and in 2nd place, Erin Fitzgibbon of Fairland, OK.
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Colgate Country Showdown
Former Colgate Country Showdown contestant Desi Hickman treated the audience to a special performance while the jugdges tallied the scores.
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Colgate Country Showdown
The Judges (from left to right: Stephanie Marsh of KOAM/Fox 14, Janice Malan of Center Creek Records, Brian Curl of Heartland Records, and Dr. Joey Pogue of Pittsburg State University) had their work cut out for them! It was a tough competition!
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Blake Shelton
Blake Shelton was the Final performer for this year's Country Fever. He headlined the Sunday night show.
Photos courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Phil Vassar
Phil Vassar performs on Sunday evening of Country Fever 2007
Photos courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Marci Mitchell Band
Friend of the station and Nevada, MO native, Marci Mitchell performed on Sunday of Country Fever 2007
Photos courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Reba McEntire
Country Legend Reba McEntire headlined Saturday night at Country Fever 2007.
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Tracy Byrd
Tracy Byrd performed on Saturday night of Country Fever 2007Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Trent Tomlinson
Trent Tomlinson performed on Saturday night at Country Fever 2007 in Pryor, OK.
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Big & Rich with Cowboy Troy
Big & Rich with Special Guest Cowboy Troy headlined Friday night of Country Fever 2007.
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Mark Chestnut
Mark Chestnutt performed at Country Fever 2007 on Friday night.
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Joe Diffie
Joe Diffie performs on Friday evening of Country Fever 2007.
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Aaron Tippin
Aaron Tippin put on quite a show on Friday night of Country Fever 2007. Besides striking poses, Aaron also put together a bicycle on stage!
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap headlined the opening night concert of Country Fever 2007.
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert put on an exciting show on the first night of Country Fever 2007.
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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Miranda Lambert at Country Fever
Miranda Lambert rocked out during her performance Thursday evening at Country Fever 2007
Photos Courtesy of Ron McHugh of Spare Time Productions
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1. Wal-mart receipt for EXACTLY $9.69
It all began when Kelsi told Bob Burk she'd do ANYTHING for tickets to see Reba perform at Country Fever. Bob thought about it and eventually came up with a scavenger hunt. Kelsi and Jacob arrived at the Dan Willis Broadcast center at 2:00 in the afternoon and soon were sent all over town seeking out the items on their list. In their first challenge Kelsi and Jacob had to get a Wal-mart receipt for EXACTLY $9.69.
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2. Picture with a REAL Cow
One of their first Scavenger hunt stops was to take a picture with a real cow. Fortunately for them, there's no shortage of those around!
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3. Glass full of Brown M&Ms
Kelsi and Jacob were good sports and managed to get a glass full of exactly 96 Brown M&M's. I wonder what they did with the other colors?
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5. Sidewalk Love
After finding a city commissioner that agreed to be in on the scavenger hunt, Kelsi and Jacob wrote showed their love for 96.9 The Kow in chalk on the sidewalk. All day they worked on securing the needed 96 signatures on their Kow t-shirts and soon they were off to Wal-mart to tell everyone how much they love Bob and The Kow.
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8. Find a house number with a 9 and a 6 in it.
After shouting her undying love for 96.9 the Kow and Bob Burk at Wal-mart, Kelsi and Jacob where off in search of a house number with both a 9 and 6 in it. From there the only thing between them and Reba was a business card from someone named Bob.
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Scavenger Hunt Winner!
Kelsi managed to find everything on Bob's list and he surprised her with tickets to all 4 nights of Country Fever!! When asked what she'd learned from the experience she replied, "Never tell Bob Burk you'd do ANYTHING for tickets!" :)
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Chely Wright puts her stamp on the Kow
Chely Wright signs Kow shirts before throwing them out the crowd during the Cherry Blossom Festival. What a great night and what a great crowd!
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Chely Wright in Concert
Chely performs at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Cherryvale, Kansas on May 12th. (Eighteen years to the day she moved to Nashville) Our own Bob Burk helped welcome Chely back the fourstates!
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The Fourstates Coming Together to Help Greensburg
Our listeners came through to help out our neighbors in Greensburg, KS following the devastating tornado of May 4. Along with KOAM, Fox-14 and Pizza Hut nearly $5,000 dollars was raised in one day to assist Greensburg residents with their recovery. Thank you Fourstates!
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Bob Phoning Home
Our own Bob Burk uses his "anytime" minutes to call home. We had a great time at CP Communications in Ft. Scott.
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Little Big Town Concert 4-6-07
Kimberly Roads performs during the Little Big Town Concert at Buffalo Run Casion on April 6th.
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Little Big Town Concert 4-6-07
Phillip Sweet performs during the Little Big Town Concert at Buffalo Run Casion on April 6th.
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Little Big Town Concert 4-6-07
Karen Fairchild performs during the Little Big Town concert at Buffalo Run Casion on April 6th.
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Little Big Town Concert 4-6-07
Jimi Westerbrook performs during the Little Big Town Concert at Buffalo Run Casino on April 6th.
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Little Big Town Concert 4-6-07
Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Roads of Little Big Town perform during their concert at Buffalo Run Casino on April 6th.
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Little Big Town Concert 4-6-07
Thom and "Danger" Dave got a chance to meet Little Big Town before their concert at Buffalo Run Casino on April 6th.
All Little Big Town Photos Courtesy of Gary Crow.
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Brad Paisley in Concert
Brad Paisley strums his Paisley guitar backstage before his concert at Buffalo Run Casino on August 12th.
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Brad Paisley in Concert
Brad Paisley played Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, OK on Saturday, August 12th. It was a fantastic show!
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Eric Church in Concert
"Danger" Dave and Thom Watts got to hang out with Eric Church when he came to Buffalo Run Casino with Brad Paisley and the Wreckers on August 12th.
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Steve Merino in Studio
The Hypnotist Gone Wild, Steve Merino, stopped by the KKOW Studio on August 4th. He brought his show direct from Las Vegas to Jimmer Jammers in Miami on August 4th and 5th.
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Candy Coburn in Studio 4-6-06
Candy Coburn isn't just a great singer, she's really fun to hang out with too! Here she makes a face in the middle of performing a song!
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Candy Coburn in Studio 4-6-06
Candy was such a sweet heart! Amy had a great time during her visit on April 6th.
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