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KQRC-FM is a radio station licensed to Leavenworth, Kansas, and serves the Kansas City metropolitan area. The station's morning show, hosted by shock jock Johnny Dare, is regularly ranked atop the local Arbitron ratings. Its studios are located in Mission, Kansas, and the transmitter site is in South Kansas City.
The station, with the brand name 98.9 The Rock, broadcasts an Active Rock/ Album Oriented Rock format consisting of Hard rock and Heavy metal acts. They tend to play heavier rock than modern rock/ alternative rock sister station KRBZ with such artists as Disturbed, Godsmack, Staind and Shinedown mixed with older rock acts like Black Sabbath, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Def Leppard and Van Halen. Metallica is frequently played, including a featured "Mandatory Metallica" at 9:00 p.m. weekdays with three consecutive songs by the band. At 11 p.m. the station plays "The Pit," which is an hour of heavy metal and death metal. The Rock airs two nationally syndicated shows on Sundays— The House of Hair with Dee Snider at 8 a.m., then the rock news show HardDrive with Lou Brutus at 10 p.m. The rest of the station's schedule features normal airplay.
Every summer KQRC hosts Rockfest, currently the largest single-day music festival in North America. Past headliners include Disturbed, Godsmack, Staind, Seether, Stone Temple Pilots, and Korn.
On September 26, 2010, KQRC was the first FM radio station in the country to release an app for the iOS operating system (Apple mobile devices) that offered an events list with Google Mapping, and push messaging.