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KDOK
KDOK (1240 AM) is a terrestrial radio station licensed to Kilgore, Texas, United States, paired with an FM translator, and simulcast with sister station 1490 KYZS, serving the Tyler-Longview market with a Classic hits format. KDOK signed on the air in 1936 as KOCA, which represented the slogan "Kilgore - Oil Capital of America". The facility is the third oldest licensed broadcast station in East Texas, surpassed only by its broadcast partner 1490 KYZS Tyler, signing on in 1931, and 1370 KFRO Longview in 1935. Translators History KOCA had a long and rich history of serving the Kilgore community. It ceased to exist on February 9, 1987, as the station became KTXC. On September 15, 1988, the station changed its call sign once again to KKTX (to match its FM sister station 96.1, which in turn became KKTX-FM, beginning a simulcast between the two that would last over two decades). The two stations were branded "96X", with only a mention of the AM at the required interval. The s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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KDOK (1240 AM) is a terrestrial radio station licensed to Kilgore, Texas, United States, paired with an FM translator, and simulcast with sister station 1490 KYZS, serving the Tyler-Longview market with a Classic hits format. KDOK signed on the air in 1936 as KOCA, which represented the slogan "Kilgore - Oil Capital of America". The facility is the third oldest licensed broadcast station in East Texas, surpassed only by its broadcast partner 1490 KYZS Tyler, signing on in 1931, and 1370 KFRO Longview in 1935. Translators History KOCA had a long and rich history of serving the Kilgore community. It ceased to exist on February 9, 1987, as the station became KTXC. On September 15, 1988, the station changed its call sign once again to KKTX (to match its FM sister station 96.1, which in turn became KKTX-FM, beginning a simulcast between the two that would last over two decades). The two stations were branded "96X", with only a mention of the AM at the required interval. The sim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KYZS
KYZS (1490 AM) is a terrestrial radio station licensed to Tyler, Texas, paired with an FM translator, and simlucast with sister station 1240 KDOK Kilgore, serving the Tyler-Longview market with a classic hits format. The station, and translator, are owned by Charles Conrad through licensee Chalk Hill Communications, LLC. Translator History Early Days of KGKB; move to Tyler The facility was first proposed on March 27, 1928, by E.M., C.T., and E.E. Wilson, d.b.a. the Eagle Broadcasting Company. An application for a construction permit was filed to operate at 1070 kHz, with 50 watts of power, from a transmission site at Fisher & 5th Street in Goldthwaite, Texas. KGKB received its first License to Cover on May 22, 1928. The facility was again modified and requested an amendment of the license on December 6, 1928, moving the transmission site to Brownwood and the broadcast studio location to Howard Payne College. An amendment was requested to move KGKB's operating channel to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRWR
KRWR (92.1 FM) is an American terrestrial radio station in Tyler, Texas, owned by Paul Gleiser through licensee ATW Media, LLC, and broadcasting a sports format with satellite delivered programming from Fox Sports Radio. The studios for "92.1 The Team" are co-located with KTBB AM and FM in One American Center at 909 ESE ESE Loop 323, at the intersection with New Copeland Road. The transmitter is located northeast of downtown Tyler. History The 92.1 frequency traces its roots back to 1975 as KROZ ("K-Rose"). During its lifetime, it has aired country music ("Tyler Rose Country"), rock, and urban contemporary music formats (as "Z92.1" while keeping the KROZ calls) and included local personalities such as Hoss Huggins, Dave Mitchell, Alex Price, Joel Hardy, Mike O'Neill, Bill Davis, Paul Berry, and Mick Fulgham. The station flipped to a 1950s/1960s oldies format and took the KGLD calls on February 9, 1992. On August 24, 1993, the station changed its call sign to KDOK. KTBB (60 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longview, Texas
Longview is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, and county seat of Gregg County, Texas, Gregg County; a small part of Longview extends into the western portion of neighboring Harrison County, Texas, Harrison County. Longview is located in East Texas, where Interstate 20 and U.S. Highway system, U.S. Highways U.S. Route 80, 80 and U.S. Route 259, 259 converge just north of the Sabine River (Texas–Louisiana), Sabine River. According to the 2020 United States Census, 2020 U.S. census, the city had a population of 81,638. Longview is the principal city of the Longview, Texas metropolitan area, Longview metropolitan statistical area, comprising Gregg, Upshur County, Texas, Upshur, and Rusk County, Texas, Rusk Counties. The population of the metropolitan area as of 2017 census estimates was 217,481. Longview was established in 1870 in what was at the time southern Upshur County; the town incorporated in 1871. After Gregg County was created in 1873, Longview was voted the county seat. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Texas
The following is a list of Federal Communications Commission, FCC-licensed AM broadcasting, AM and FM broadcasting, FM Radio broadcasting, radio stations in the U.S. state of Texas, which can be sorted by their Call signs in North America, call signs, Radio spectrum, broadcast frequencies, city of license, cities of license, licensees, or radio format, programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * KBAL-FM * KCER-LP * KERB-FM * KJNZ * KJOJ-FM * KLBW * KMUL (AM), KMUL * KM2XVL * KNSH (AM), KNSH * KOTY (Texas), KOTY * KOZA * KPHS * KPRO (Texas), KPRO * KQTY (AM), KQTY * KRHC * KSTB * KULF * KXAL-LP * KXGC-FM * KZSP See also * Texas#Media, Texas media ** List of newspapers in Texas ** List of television stations in Texas ** Media of List of cities in Texas by population, cities in Texas: Abilene, Texas#Media, Abilene, Amarillo, Texas#Local media, Amarillo, Austin, Texas#Media, Austin, Beaumont, Texas#Media, Beaumont, Brownsville, Texas#Media, Brownsville, Dallas#Media, Dal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KKTX-FM
KKTX-FM (96.1 MHz) is a Townsquare Media commercial radio station licensed to Kilgore, Texas, serving the Longview/Marshall/Tyler, Texas, Tyler area with a classic rock radio format, format. radio studio, Studios are located in south Tyler, Texas, and the transmitter site is located in Kilgore, Texas Kilgore is a city in Gregg and Rusk counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas. Over three-fourths of the city limits is located in Gregg County, the remainder in Rusk County. The population was 12,975 at the 2010 census and 13,376 .... The station is not affiliated with iHeartMedia owned KKTX (AM), KKTX 1360 AM, located 361 miles away in Corpus Christi, Texas. KRYS was loaned the use of the KKTX call set by then owner Clear Channel Communications, who also owned this facility at the time. History KKTX came to air in on under the ownership of the Noalmark Broadcasting Corporation, a year after Noalmark had bought the permit for unbuilt KCNW from Radio Kilgore, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KZQX
KZQX (100.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Tatum, Texas, United States, serving the Tyler-Longview market with an Oldies and Adult Standards format. K250AJ (97.9 FM) is an FM translator, licensed to Tyler, Texas, extending the KZQX coverage area to the City of Tyler and southern Smith County, Texas. The station is owned by Charles Conrad through licensee Chalk Hill Communications, LLC.; the translator is owned by the East Texas Community Repeater Group, based in Henderson, Texas. Radio Locator. Accessed December 21, 2013. History The facility and license began in as KGRI-FM, at 99.9 MHz. It was the original FM counterpart to the now s ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County, Texas, Smith County. It is also the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2020 census population of 105,995, Tyler was the List of cities in Texas by population, 33rd most populous city in Texas and List of United States cities by population, 299th in the United States. It is the principal city of the Tyler metropolitan area, Greater Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which is the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 198th most populous metropolitan area in the United States, U.S. and List of Texas metropolitan areas, 16th in Texas after Waco metropolitan area, Waco and the Bryan–College Station, College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 233,479 in 2020. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement began in Tyler. After appeals from local Texas Department of Transportation officials, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFRO (AM)
KFRO (1370 AM) is a terrestrial American radio station licensed to Longview, Texas, United States. The station serves the Longview-Tyler-Kilgore area. KFRO is owned by RCA Broadcasting, LLC. Translator History James R. Curtis received a license in 1924 to operate KFRO on 1220 kilohertz in Ft. Worth, Texas. However, financial problems forced Curtis to abandon the plans for the Ft. Worth station, and later revive the KFRO license on 1370 kHz in Longview. According to the 60th anniversary of KFRO (Longview News Journal Suppliment), Rogers Lacy, maternal uncle of James R.Curtis, offered to fund $5000.00 for the equipment needed to get KFRO on the air. Lacy wanted to build Longview into a city, and knew that radio would do exactly that. Mr. Curtis packed his small family and his law practice and moved to Longview. On October 30, 1933 Voice of Longview received a construction permit to build a 100-watt radio station on 1370 kHz in Longview. The location was listed as a gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oldies Radio Stations In The United States
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music. After 2000, 1970s music was increasingly included. "Classic hits" has been seen as a successor to the oldies format on the radio, with music from the 1980s serving as the core format. Description This broad category includes styles as diverse as doo-wop, early rock and roll, novelty songs, bubblegum music, folk rock, psychedelic rock, baroque pop, surf music, soul music, rhythm and blues, classic rock, some blues, and some country music. Golden Oldies usually refers to music exclusively from the 1950s and 1960s. Oldies radio typically features artists such as Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Beach Boys, Frankie Avalon, The Four Seasons, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Shannon
Michael Scott Shannon (born July 25, 1947) is an American radio disc jockey who hosted the morning show for WCBS-FM in New York City from 2014 to 2022 as well as ''Scott Shannon Presents America's Greatest Hits'' which is syndicated nationally with United Stations Radio Networks and Audacy. He previously worked for WHTZ, WPLJ, ''The True Oldies Channel'', and ''The Sean Hannity Show''. Early radio career Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Shannon grew up an Army brat in Indianapolis, Indiana. He began his radio career during his own Army stint at WFBS (1450 AM) in Spring Lake, North Carolina (later WMRV). From there he moved to WCLS (1580 AM) in Columbus, Georgia. After leaving the Army, Shannon worked full-time in radio at WABB in Mobile, Alabama, where he acquired the name Super Shan. After a brief stint at WMPS in Memphis, he moved to Nashville, where he was the evening disc jockey at WMAK (1300 AM), later becoming that station's program director. While at WMAK, interactions an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security. The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories of the United States. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries of North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees. It has an estimated fiscal-2022 budget of US $388 million. It has 1,482 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
