Yesterday, I felt like getting into the Christmas spirit, so I was listening to the wall-to-wall Christmas music on Lite 96 while driving to my sister's place. I noticed that every time they did a station break, they only identified the station as "95 9" with no call letters or name. This is usually a good indication that the station will soon be undergoing a name/format change.
Sure enough, today marks the re-branding of the station to KiSS 95.9, Today's Best Music:
http://www.kiss959.com/
The Lite 96 brand had been around the Calgary market for well over 20 years, although, I think they've been drifting away from the purely "light rock" format for the last few years.
IIRC, this is the fourth time in the last 30 years that a station in Calgary has used the "KISS" name:
Back in the mid-80s, the original XL Radio 1140 AM changed to an Adult Contemporary format and adopted the "CISS" call letters.
CISS eventually gave way to "Classic Rock, The Fox"; which soon became XL Radio again. XL's AM licence was sold to the owner of 66 CFR, who flipped the licence to FM and launched the second incarnation of Kiss, this time at 96.9 FM.
They were unable to find a format that clicked for the first few years, changing to Rock 97 for a little while; then the third coming of Kiss, which had an "Urban" format. That Kiss lasted less than a year, before Rogers brought the Jack-FM brand to Calgary, which has lasted for more than a decade now.
Now, the KiSS name is back in Calgary, this time at 95.9 FM. I assume I'll still only ever listen to it while in a waiting room somewhere.