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KMJJ
KMJJ-FM (99.7 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station with an urban contemporary radio format, format broadcasting in Shreveport, Louisiana and the "Ark-La-Tex." The station is owned by Cumulus Media and is headquartered at the Louisiana Boardwalk shopping center in Bossier City, Louisiana. The station's transmitter is southwest of the Interstate 20, I-20/Interstate 49, I-49 interchange in Shreveport, on a landmark non-supported structure nicknamed Eiffel Tower. It is co-located with KVMA-FM and KQHN-FM with the KRMD-FM auxiliary transmitter. KMJJ was originally known as ''Majic FM 100'' then on 100.1 FM debuting an urban format on August 1, 1988, flipping from easy listening KCOZ. It has been a heritage urban-formatted station since in the Shreveport area. In April 1993 KMJJ moved to 99.7 FM and upgraded to 50,000 watts. In the years since it has gained competition from KDKS and KBTT; it gained format companionship in 2004 when KVMA-FM took to the air. Since January 2008, KMJJ is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMJJ
KMJJ-FM (99.7 Hertz, MHz) is a radio station with an urban contemporary radio format, format broadcasting in Shreveport, Louisiana and the "Ark-La-Tex." The station is owned by Cumulus Media and is headquartered at the Louisiana Boardwalk shopping center in Bossier City, Louisiana. The station's transmitter is southwest of the Interstate 20, I-20/Interstate 49, I-49 interchange in Shreveport, on a landmark non-supported structure nicknamed Eiffel Tower. It is co-located with KVMA-FM and KQHN-FM with the KRMD-FM auxiliary transmitter. KMJJ was originally known as ''Majic FM 100'' then on 100.1 FM debuting an urban format on August 1, 1988, flipping from easy listening KCOZ. It has been a heritage urban-formatted station since in the Shreveport area. In April 1993 KMJJ moved to 99.7 FM and upgraded to 50,000 watts. In the years since it has gained competition from KDKS and KBTT; it gained format companionship in 2004 when KVMA-FM took to the air. Since January 2008, KMJJ is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQHN
KQHN (97.3 FM, "Q97.3") is a hot adult contemporary radio station licensed to Waskom, Texas, and serves the greater Shreveport, Louisiana area. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts from the Louisiana Boardwalk shopping center in Bossier City, Louisiana, along with sister stations KRMD (AM), KRMD, KRMD-FM, KMJJ, and KVMA-FM. The station was assigned the KQHN call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on April 7, 2005. History The station was originally licensed to Magnolia, Arkansas, as KFMV on 107.9 MHz. In 2004, Cumulus Media bought the station and tried to move the station into the Shreveport market, by moving the station's city of license to Oil City, Louisiana. However the station's transmitter on 107.9 MHz from its new location caused interference with air traffic control at Barksdale Air Force Base and was forced off the air by the military and FCC. Ultimately the station's frequency was moved to 97.3 MHz and the city of license t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBTT
KBTT (103.7 FM, "103.7 Tha Beat") is a radio station licensed to Haughton, Louisiana and broadcasting to Shreveport with a Mainstream urban musical format. it is owned by Alpha Media, LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Its studios are located just north of downtown Shreveport, and the transmitter is in Eastwood, Louisiana. Around the late 1990s to early 2000 KBTT, originally called ''"K-103 Tha Beat,"'' was launched with a Rhythmic Contemporary format originally as one of the first competitors to KMJJ. KBTT's sister station KDKS was launched at the same time as an Urban Contemporary format. But once KDKS turned its format over to Urban AC to compete with newcomer KVMA-FM (KMJJ's sister), KBTT tilted its format over to Mainstream Urban since Shreveport-Bossier City market has a huge African American population to support it as opposed to rhythmic. It is the syndicated home of the ''Rickey Smiley Broderick Dornell Smiley (born August 10, 1968) is an American s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDKS
KDKS-FM is a radio station licensed to Blanchard in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana and broadcasting to Shreveport with an Urban Adult Contemporary musical format. Broadcasting on 102.1 FM, it is owned by Alpha Media LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Its studios are located just north of downtown Shreveport, and the transmitter is in Blanchard. Around the late 1990s to early 2000s KDKS, originally called ''"HOT 102,"'' was launched with an Urban Contemporary format originally as one of the first competitors to challenge KMJJ, and was launched alongside sister station KBTT (then a Rhythmic). At first it was an Urban AC station until it chose to aim at a more broader 18–49 audience by adding hip hop to the playlist a little later on. When KVMA-FM was launched in 2004, KDKS decided to turn its format back around to Urban AC and instead take its newcoming Urban rival on, while the owners shifted KBTT from Rhythmic to Mainstream Urban and take on KMJJ fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRMD (AM)
KRMD (1340 AM broadcasting, AM, "Lite Rock 100.7") is a mixed soft adult contemporary and normal adult contemporary formatted radio station licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana and serving the Ark-La-Tex region. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and based at the Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City, Louisiana. The station's transmitter is just southwest of the Interstate 20, I-20/Interstate 49, I-49 interchange in Shreveport, coincidentally across the street from a separate transmitter housing its sister stations, its KRMD-FM, FM partner, KMJJ-FM, KVMA-FM and KQHN. Programming Former programming was a mixture of politics, political talk with syndicated hosts Neal Boortz, G. Gordon Liddy, and Bill O'Reilly (commentator), Bill O'Reilly and sports talk with Tim Brando. As of the 2006 NFL season, KRMD is the local affiliate for the Dallas Cowboys. The station plays Christmas music every November and December. In 2022, it was the first station to change to Christmas music for the seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRMD-FM
KRMD-FM (101.1 FM, "Country 101.1 FM") is a contemporary country music formatted radio station licensed to Oil City, Louisiana, United States, and serving the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and based at the Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City, with a transmitter based in Mooringsport Mooringsport is an incorporated municipality in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located in Caddo Parish. Part of the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area and located approximately outside of the principal city of Shreveport, the town of Mo ... (with an auxiliary backup transmitter outside downtown Shreveport). Former studio locations include the Jefferson Building (near downtown Shreveport), the Alexander Avenue building (near Centenary College), and presently the Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City. The Jefferson Building also housed the 25 kW transmitter and 110 foot tower (HAAT), but winds from a bad storm toppled the tower dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KVMA-FM
KVMA-FM (102.9 MHz) is an urban adult contemporary formatted radio station based in Shreveport, Louisiana, and serving the "Ark-La-Tex" region. Broadcasting on 102.9 FM, KVMA-FM is owned by Cumulus Media and is headquartered at the Louisiana Boardwalk The Louisiana Boardwalk Outlets is an outdoor shopping center combining Retail store, retail shopping, restaurants, and entertainment. It is located in Bossier City, Louisiana, between the Horseshoe Bossier City and Margaritaville Resort Casino. I ... shopping center in Bossier City, Louisiana. KVMA-FM was purchased in 2004 from Magnolia, Arkansas and relocated to the Shreveport Market on 107.9 MHz with Cumulus Broadcasting. In 2005, a short discussion between the FCC, Barksdale Air Force Base and Cumulus Broadcasting over the interference of 107.9 and the B52 Aircraft, the FCC shut down the 107.9 frequency forever in the Shreveport/Bossier area. Cumulus Broadcasting shutdown KVMA-FM and relocated its format to 102.9 one ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossier City, Louisiana
Bossier City ( ) is a city in Bossier Parish in the northwestern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana in the United States. It is the second most populous city in the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan statistical area. In 2020, it had a total population of 62,701 up from 61,315 in 2010. Located on the eastern bank of the Red River, Bossier City is closely tied economically and socially to its larger sister city Shreveport on the opposite bank, though the city maintains its own community college (Bossier Parish Community College). Bossier City is the largest city in Louisiana that is not the parish seat. History 19th century In the 1830s, the area of Bossier City was the plantation Elysian Grove, which was purchased by James Cane and his second wife Mary Doal Cilley Bennett Cane. James had come to the area with his first wife Rebecca Bennett, and her brother, William Bennett, and his wife Mary Doal Cilley Bennett. They ran a trading post across the river on what was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ark-La-Tex
The Ark-La-Tex (a portmanteau of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas; also stylized as Arklatex or ArkLaTex) is a socio-economic tri-state region where the Southern U.S. states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas join together. The region contains portions of Northwest Louisiana, Northeast Texas, and South Arkansas as well as the extreme southeastern tip of Oklahoma, in McCurtain County (part of Choctaw Country), partly centered upon the Red River, which flows along the Texas–Oklahoma state line into Southwestern Arkansas and Northwest Louisiana. The population estimate of the 40-county core region as of 2018 is 1,498,647 people, up from 1,043,570 in 2010. Shreveport, Louisiana, with approximately 189,149 people in 2018, is the largest city, economic and geographic center of the region, and principal hub for both the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area and Northwestern Louisiana. Longview, Texas, with an approximate population of 81,647 people in 2018, is the second-larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Louisiana
The following is a list of Federal Communications Commission–licensed radio stations in the American state of Louisiana, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * KBYO * KCJM-LP * KCRJ-LP * KDLA * KEPZ * KEZM * KJCB * KLIC * KMCZ * KMLB (1440 AM) * KPCP * KWHN-FM * KXZZ * WBYU * WIBR * WJVI * WLRO See also * Louisiana media ** List of newspapers in Louisiana ** List of television stations in Louisiana ** Media of locales in Louisiana: Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Monroe, New Orleans, Shreveport, Terrebonne Parish References Bibliography * * * External links * (Directory ceased in 2017) Louisiana Association of Broadcasters Images File:1938 WJBO radio event in Crowley Louisiana Library of Congress fsa1997024063.jpg, WJBO radio event in Crowley, Louisiana, 1938 File:BDC Radio Natchitoches 02.jpg, Building of KZBL and KDBH radio stations in Natchitoches, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population of 393,406 in 2020, is the fourth largest in Louisiana, though 2020 census estimates placed its population at 397,590. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. It extends along the west bank of the Red River (most notably at Wright Island, the Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park, and Bagley Island) into neighboring Bossier Parish. The United States Census Bureau's 2020 census tabulation for the city's population was 187,593, though the American Community Survey's census estimates determined 189,890 residents. Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Banks
Calvin Douglas Banks Jr. (June 9, 1958 – April 11, 2016) was an American radio personality and host of The Doug Banks Radio Show. Career highlights The Philadelphia-born, Detroit-raised Banks began his radio career broadcasting on his high school's radio station. Local station WDRQ took notice of his talent and offered him a spot as a temporary late-night weekend disc jockey for a country music station. After high school, he successfully turned his temporary trial into a permanent multi-year gig at KDAY in Los Angeles, California. Soon after, in April 1979 he started at KMJM-Majic 108, as "The Unknown DJ" Banks then moved on to the LA station KFI, which helped to pave the way to a morning show slot in Las Vegas at KLAV. Doug's next two stops were KDIA in Oakland, California, and WBMX (now WVAZ) in Chicago, Illinois. From 1986 to 1995, Banks did nights, mornings, and afternoons for WGCI-FM in Chicago. It was at WGCI where Doug became good friends with Tom Joyner and they became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
