Thursday 1st January 2026

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Nashville Music Minute:

[caption id="attachment_52162" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Tune in each weekday around 7:20a on the Morning Kix Start as we get the latest news and gossip in Country Music from Nashville Kat.[/caption]

 
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The List for Monday, October 18th 2021

Welcome to The List,

First…congratulations to Kane Brown making TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People" List ..." You know, I was extremely happy, you know, when Darius said I was kind of doing, like, what Charlie Pride did for a lot of people. And same thing for what he did. So I'm just super blessed to be honored with the Time 100." Time’s Magazines 100 Most Influential People issue is available now.

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Six-time Grammy-award-winning country superstar Kacey Musgraves is breaking her silence on her latest album being ruled as ineligible for the 2022 Grammy season. Musgraves is being left out of the GRAMMY Awards' best country album category. Declaring that her ‘Star-Crossed’ album is not eligible in the country category. Instead, the album is eligible for best Pop Vocal Album.

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Entertainment Tonight says Jimmie Allen and his wife, Alexis, are the proud parents of a new baby girl named Zara James Allen..

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Rob Zombie has just given fans a first look at his upcoming Meet the Munsters movie by sharing on-set photos of three main cast members. sharing images of Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman Munster, Sheri Moon Zombie as Lily Munster, and character actor Daniel Roebuck as Grandpa The three are posed in their set-chairs in front of the new 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

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Adele has made her return to music as official as it gets, announcing a two-hour TV special that will feature music from her new album and an interview with Oprah Winfrey. The special, called Adele One Night Only, will air on CBS on Sunday, Nov. 14, five days before the release of her highly anticipated fourth album 30.  The special, which will air on CBS and will be available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+,

You can catch The List, weekdays at 2:20 and 4:20 on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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Nashville Music Minute: Mayo in your coffee?

[caption id="attachment_52162" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Tune in each weekday around 7:20a on the Morning Kix Start as we get the latest news and gossip in Country Music from Nashville Kat.[/caption]

 
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The List for Friday, October 15th 2021

Welcome to The List,

You just never know when something is going to strike and become a huge hit…take the song “Fancy Like” Walker Hayes had no idea how big it  would become ...”I thought maybe it would kinda have a viral nature inside my fanbase.  I didn’t really know the mass appeal the song would have at all.”  How surreal to have such a quirky song blow up worldwide.

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OK! magazine says one of Jason Aldean's tour buses was involved in a wreck on a West Virginia highway yesterday outside of Charleston. The bus was carrying equipment and blocked all, but one lane of traffic. Jason was not on the bus

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America's Got Talent host Howie Mandel had a health scare earlier this week when he passed out at a California Starbucks on Wednesday. Mandel was briefly hospitalized, citing dehydration due to a colonoscopy a few days earlier.

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Jonah Hill has asked fans on Wednesday night to stop commenting on his body. He posted; “I know you mean well but I kindly ask that you not comment on my body… Good or bad I want to politely let you know it’s not helpful and doesn’t feel good. Much respect.” So, Sharon Stone ignoring the post…posted a response :“Can i say you look good cuz u do”

The Internet reacts ...

“read the room”

“He literally just said no, Sharon Stone. Sheesh.”

“would be amazing if you could delete this comment and learn how to read”

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You can catch The List, weekdays at 2:20 and 4:20 on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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The Movie Review: The Last Duel & Needle in a Timestack

[caption id="attachment_61328" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] The Movie Review presented by North Grand Cinema in Ames with the Movie Mom Nell Minow is each Friday at 8:30a during the Morning Kix Start with Brandon Lewis.
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Nashville Music Minute: Finally Friday!

[caption id="attachment_52162" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Tune in each weekday around 7:20a on the Morning Kix Start as we get the latest news and gossip in Country Music from Nashville Kat.[/caption]

 
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At the Movies for Thursday, October 14th 2021

Welcome to ‘At the Movies’ Brought to you by North Grand Cinema in Ames….

Jamie Lee Curtis is back in "Halloween Kills" ...

Michael Meyers is BACK and the Strode family forms a mob to hunt him down after he frees himself from a burning basement.

https://youtu.be/hL6R3HmQfPc

 

“Halloween Kills” is rated R and stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer and Anthony Michael Hall

 And is in theaters and streaming on Peacock Premium Friday…

Get showtimes and information on private screenings at northgrandcinema.com.

‘At the Movies’, Brought to you by North Grand Cinema, in Ames. Listen tomorrow during the Morning Kickstart to win a Family Four Pack of tickets to a movie of your choice from North Grand Cinema and Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1.

I’m Jonathan Knight and we’ll see YOU ‘At the Movies’

‘At the Movies’ Thursday’s at 5:40 on Iowa's BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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George Ducas & Doris Day

George Ducas is coming back to KIX Country for two shows one in Iowa City and the other in Des Moines. He talks about his songs and I ask him about the Texas Country Music Chart and his current single "Cold Bud" and maybe something on my bucket list.

Find out more about the shows

 
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The List for Thursday, October 14th 2021

Welcome to The List,

And who does Jon Pardi give credit to when it comes to his career…well he tells CMT it’s country legend Randy Travis. Saying “Randy definitely influences me as an artist.  I honestly don't think I'd be where I am without his music." And of course, Garth Brooks presented the Artist Of A Lifetime Award to Randy Travis last night. “Artists like this guy only come along once in a lifetime, I know if you’re like me you pray that another Randy Travis shows up every day.. Other winners for CMT Artist of the Year, were Luke Combs, Chris Stapleton, Gabby Barrett, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini and Breakout Artist of the Year went to Mickey Guyton.

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Country band Rascal Flatts announced at the beginning of 2020 that they were breaking up and going on a farewell Life is a Highway tour. Unfortunately, the pandemic derailed those tour plans, leaving their ending as a band rather open-ended.  Gary LeVox giving an interview to PEOPLE expressing his own frustration over how the band ended.  Saying in part, “I wasn't happy that Joe Don [Rooney] quit, It kinda came out of nowhere” and then the Pandemic cancelled everything…I just hate the way it ended.”

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The family friendly 1960’s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” was almost re-made into an R rated movie….

Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn tells MovieWeb that he wanted to do just that…

Saying they pitched a movie version of Gilligan's Island where the islanders, starving and desperate, started killing & eating each other. Warner Bros wanted to do it, but Sherwood Schwartz, the creator, said no way…You just know Gilligan would survive..he always had that look that if skipper hit him just…one…more…time….

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No one FLEXES quite like Gaga…The NY Post says Lady Gaga was recently spotted on a flight to Las Vegas wearing a boa made of $100 bills, carrying a $22,000 Hermes handbag and wearing a $1,300 polka dot dress for the flight…

You can catch The List, weekdays at 2:20 and 4:20 on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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Nashville Music Minute: Randy Travis honored at CMT Awards show

[caption id="attachment_52162" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Tune in each weekday around 7:20a on the Morning Kix Start as we get the latest news and gossip in Country Music from Nashville Kat.[/caption]

 
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