KISO (96.1 MHz, "96.1 KISS-FM") is a Top 40 (CHR) FM radio station in Omaha, Nebraska owned by iHeartMedia.

OmahaRadioHistory.com) In 1959, a station known as KCOM surfaced at 96.1 when a couple of hobbyist-types used the frequency to broadcast classical music, with an Omaha license.

Their studios were in the Rorick Apartments with a tower on top of the building, where it remained through the Burden years until toppled in the 1980 storm.

Although a simulcast with KOIL, the KICN call letters were being preserved from Burden's Denver property on 710 that didn't succeed and was sold off.

With call letters now matching its sister, KOIL-FM became one of the standard "Beautiful Music" formats on FM dials across the country.

In 1976, the Burden stations were shut down by the FCC, but KEFM returned to broadcasting in December of that same year with the same Beautiful Music format.

On October 21, 1983, KEFM went back on the air, which began 20 years under the ownership of the Webster family, and returned with an adult contemporary format as "Lite 96.

[5] Clear Channel's attempts to rebuild the slow erosion of KEFM's audience failed, and at 5 a.m. on September 22, 2005, an "All Christmas" format was launched as a stunt.

It also featured a good helping of 1980s pop-rock, such as John Cougar Mellencamp, Bryan Adams, and Pat Benatar.