Radio listeners will soon hear DJs announce the call letters KDHX over the airwaves, but the station won’t be a community effort by volunteers that features the work of local musicians .

Instead, conservative AM talk station KXEN 1010 will adopt the KDHX call sign.

The change takes effect Monday, according to a filing with the FCC. East Central Broadcasting, a Washington, Missouri-based company that owns KXEN and four other radio stations in the state, paid the FCC a $190 fee to secure the new call letters. KXEN-AM airs a simulcast of KRTK 93.3 FM, part of the Real Talk conservative talk network.

The radio frequency that was formerly home to community station KDHX, 88.1 FM, is airing pop music until a switch in January when it will become 88.1 Worship One , the third

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