KSIV-FM

National religious leaders heard on KSIV-AM-FM include Jim Daly, David Jeremiah, Joni Eareckson Tada, Alistair Begg, Greg Laurie, J. Vernon McGee, Chuck Swindoll, Charles Stanley, James Dobson, Michael Youssef and John MacArthur.

The St. Louis City Board of Education applied to the FCC to construct a new noncommercial FM radio station.

[7] Eight different planning committees worked with teachers on the development of radio courses, while many programs aired at different times to suit the needs of the city schools.

[9] Among its staff was at least one alumnus who went on to a lengthy career in St. Louis broadcasting: future KMOV-TV anchor Julius Hunter, who at one time taught in the school system,[10] worked at the station as a writer-producer in the late 1960s.

As the Federal Communications Commission pushed stations to begin broadcasting at least 12 hours per day, school board officials looked for solutions.

Another public radio station in the St. Louis market, WSIE in Edwardsville, Illinois, lacked full-signal coverage of the metropolitan area, meaning that listeners could not pick up such NPR programs as All Things Considered.

In October 1988, a federal judge ordered the school board to draft a plan to reorganize its administration and improve efficiencies, while the Missouri Attorney General's office made its own proposal six months later.

One was from Urban Communications, Inc., which would have reinvented KSLH as a minority-oriented radio station, pledging to carry out the power increase to 100,000 watts.

[22] Ultimately, in 1991, the school board cut back its spending on KSLH from $250,000 to $100,000 annually and entered into an agreement with Webster University.

[23] Webster maintained studios on its own campus and fed jazz programming back to the KSLH transmitter by telephone line.

[26] Filed in February 1994, the Lutheran Church application languished for over 18 months and eventually was terminated, as the synod was facing a license challenge over hiring practices at the KFUO stations.

In October 1995, a second Christian buyer emerged to acquire KSLH: Community Broadcasting, Inc., the non-profit stations arm of the Bott Radio Network.

[34] For Bott Radio listeners in the St. Louis area who had trouble receiving the 1320 AM signal, or who preferred the clearer sound of FM stereo, KSIV-FM 91.5 provided a new outlet.