brought in former KNDD personalities Andy Savage and Bill Reid for morning and afternoon drive time. Ratings for the station under this format were poor. Adult hits (2005-present) On April 22, 2005, at 10:00 a.m., after playing "Black" by Seattle band Pearl Jam, KRQI flipped to its current Adult Hits format as "96-5 Jack FM." The first song on Seattle's "Jack" was "Get the Party Started" by P!nk. Jim Tripp was hired as the program director. The station's call letters were changed to KJAQ on May 7, 2005. On February 2, 2017, CBS Radio announced it would merge with Entercom, which already owned four FM stations in Seattle (KHTP, KISW, KKWF, and KNDD). On October 10, CBS Radio announced that as part of the process of obtaining regulatory approval of the merger, KJAQ would be one of sixteen stations that would be divested by Entercom, along with sister stations KZOK and KFNQ. (Entercom would keep KMPS.) On November 1, 2017, iHeartMedia announced that it would acquire KJAQ, KZOK, and KFNQ. To meet ownership limits set by the FCC, KFOO and KUBE were divested to the Ocean Stations Trust in advance of a sale to a different owner. Until the completion of the divestment of KFOO and KUBE to the trust, CBS placed KJAQ, KZOK, and KFNQ into the Entercom Divestiture Trust. The merger of CBS and Entercom was approved on November 9, and the deal was consummated on November 17. The sale of KJAQ to iHeartMedia was officially completed on December 19, 2017. On March 3, 2021, the National Hockey League expansion team Seattle Kraken announced a multi-year broadcast agreement with iHeart; as part of the deal, KJAQ was announced to simulcast a yet-undetermined number of games with KJR. On March 8, 2021, the station was branded as "96-5 Jill FM" under the slogan "Playing What SHE Wants" to celebrate International Women’s Day. HD radio 96.5-HD1 carries the analog format ("96-5 Jack FM") from the standard 96.5 FM frequency. 96.5-HD2 carries an alternative rock format known as "Alt 96-5 HD2", transferred from former sister station KFOO. 96.5-HD3 carries a simulcast of conservative talk-formatted KPTR 1090 AM. References External links JAQ Adult hits radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1959 1959 establishments in Washington (state) Jack FM stations IHeartMedia radio stations