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KPEL-FM
KPEL-FM (96.5 FM, "NewsTalk 96.5 KPEL") is a radio station licensed to the community of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, and serving the Lafayette, Louisiana area. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and licensed to Townsquare Media of Lafayette, LLC. It airs a news/talk format. Its studios are located on Bertrand Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located in Abbeville, Louisiana. The station is led by Brand Manager Rob Kirkpatrick who also manages KROF-AM (960 AM, "TalkRadio960"). The show's line-up consists of local and nationally syndicated content. The local shows include "Acadiana's Morning News" with Rob Kirkpatrick and Bernadette Lee, "The Moon Griffon Show", "The Ross Report" with Carol Ross and "OFFSIDES" with Brandon Comeaux and Shannon Wilkerson. Tiffiany Decou hosts the lifestyle show "The Lafayette Food Junkie" on Sunday evenings at 6. Rush Limbaugh is the lone syndicated show on KPEL's daytime schedule. The station also broadcasts all Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns b ...
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KTDY
KTDY (99.9 FM) is an adult contemporary music formatted radio station in the Lafayette/Acadiana market in Louisiana, United States, owned by Townsquare Media. Its studios are located on Bertrand Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located north of St. Martinville, Louisiana. The station's 100,000-watt signal allows it to be picked up clearly 24/7 in Baton Rouge, 55 miles to the east, and Lake Charles, 70 miles to the west. In Baton Rouge, the station competes against 96.1 The River. History KTDY signed on on September 15, 1966 as KPEL-FM, and was at first a beautiful music simulcast of sister station 1420/KPEL. In the early 1970s, due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations discouraging full AM/FM simulcasts, KPEL-FM began programming a Progressive Rock format in the overnight hours, retaining the beautiful music format during the day. Eventually, KPEL-FM changed its calls to KTDY in early 1977, and the progressive format was expanded to broadcast the ent ...
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KHXT
KHXT (107.9 FM, "HOT 107.9") is a Rhythmic Top 40 radio station serving the Lafayette area. The Townsquare Media outlet broadcasts with an ERP of 97 kW and is licensed to Erath, Louisiana. Its studios are located on Bertrand Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located north of St. Martinville, Louisiana. Every weekday from 6 AM to 10 AM, they host The Morning Buzz with Chris Reed and Digital, and Friday mornings from 6 AM to 10 AM, they play the Breakfast Jam, an all request mixshow that is a mix of old school hip hop and various other types of old school music. The station also hosts all Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football games, men's basketball games, and women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college compet ... games. History The station originally debu ...
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KFTE
KFTE (105.1 FM, "Classic Rock 105.1") is a commercial radio station in Abbeville, Louisiana, broadcasting to the Lafayette, Louisiana, area. KFTE airs a classic rock music format, and is owned by Townsquare Media. Its studios are located on Bertrand Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located north of Abbeville, Louisiana. History KFTE was established as KROF-FM 104.9, sister station to KROF (960 AM), on May 25, 1974. It initially simulcasted KROF during the day and continued its broadcasts at night. The call letters were changed to KASC on November 1, 1980. In 1994, Schilling Distributing Co., a beer distributor, bought the station from Mid-Acadiana Broadcasting. Previously, it was the last alternative rock station under Townsquare Media ownership since Townsquare Media is withdrawing alternative rock stations from ownership. For example, some Townsquare Media stations dumped the format entirely such as WGRD-FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan Grand Rapids is a city and c ...
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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, ...
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KMDL
KMDL (97.3 FM, "97.3 The Dawg") is a country music-formatted radio station in Lafayette, Louisiana. It is owned by Townsquare Media. Its studios are located on Bertrand Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located south of Youngsville, Louisiana. The station is an affiliate of the New Orleans Saints radio network. History KMDL began broadcasting August 1, 1981 with 3,000 watts at 97.7.Broadcasting/Cablecasting Yearbook 1984 When KMDL signed on, it was a local Kaplan station with a marginal signal over the Lafayette market. In 1991, in an effort to better serve the market as a whole, KMDL upgraded to 40,000 watts and moved to 97.5. The move lasted for a short time, however, as interference forced the station to move back to 97.7 until it was found that the station could move to 97.3 interference-free. KMDL has been in a country format since first signing on as "K-Middle," in reference to 97.7 appearing in the middle of the dial on an analog radio. After moving to 97.3, KMD ...
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KPEL (AM)
KPEL (1420 kHz, "103.3 The Goat") is an AM radio station licensed to serve Lafayette, Louisiana. The station is owned by Townsquare Media and licensed to Townsquare Media of Lafayette, LLC. It airs a sports radio format featuring programming from ESPN Radio. Its studios are located on Bertrand Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located about two miles north of the studios. The station was assigned the KPEL call letters by the 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 ... on July 1, 1957. The station is the base of the Great S.C.O.T.T. Show with Scott Prather. The station serves as the flagship station of Louisiana Ragin' Cajun Athletics, airing UL football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, and softball games. On September 30 ...
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KROF
KROF (960 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk format. Licensed to Abbeville, Louisiana, United States, the station serves the Lafayette area. The station is currently owned by Townsquare Media. Its studios are located on Bertrand Road in Lafayette, and its transmitter is located north of Abbeville. History KROF made its official debut on July 9, 1948. It broadcast as a daytime-only station on 960 with 1,000 watts and was the first radio station in Abbeville. The station was owned by Abbeville Broadcasting Service, a local corporation in which residents of Vermilion Parish invested $50,000. The station affiliated with the short-lived Progressive Broadcasting System in 1950. In October 1970, interests from Crowley began a bid to take over KROF. William C. Broadhurst, an attorney, sent letters to the shareholders in Abbeville Broadcasting Service, offering $400 per share. However, Broadhurst was only able to acquire 176 of the 187 shares necessary to gather a controlling ...
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Breaux Bridge, Louisiana
Breaux Bridge (;Jack A. Reynolds. "Breaux Bridge" entry i"Louisiana Placenames of Romance Origin."LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses #7852. 1942. p. 77. french: Pont-Breaux; frc, Pont-(de)-Breaux ) is a small city in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population is 8,139 as of the 2010 census, up from 7,281 in 2000. It is part of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. Originally dubbed "La Capitale Mondiale de l’Écrevisse," Breaux Bridge was officially designated the ''Crawfish Capital of the World'' by former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives Bob Angelle. Breaux Bridge hosts an annual Crawfish Festival, and is regionally noted for listing nicknames in its telephone directory. History On August 25, 1829, Scholastique Picou Breaux founded Breaux Bridge, Louisiana at the age of 33. Scholastique was born Scholastique Melanie Picou on July 25, 1796. At a young age, she married Agricole Breaux; together, they had five children. In 1817, ...
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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III ( ; January 12, 1951 – February 17, 2021) was an American conservative political commentator who was the host of '' The Rush Limbaugh Show'', which first aired in 1984 and was nationally syndicated on AM and FM radio stations from 1988 until his death in 2021. Limbaugh became one of the most prominent conservative voices in the United States during the 1990s and hosted a national television show from 1992 to 1996. He was among the most highly paid figures in American radio history; in 2018 ''Forbes'' listed his earnings at $84.5 million. In December 2019, '' Talkers Magazine'' estimated that Limbaugh's show attracted a cumulative weekly audience of 15.5 million listeners to become the most-listened-to radio show in the United States. Limbaugh also wrote seven books; his first two, ''The Way Things Ought to Be'' (1992) and ''See, I Told You So'' (1993), made ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. Limbaugh garnered controversy from his statemen ...
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The Kim Komando Show
Kimberly Ann Komando (born 1967) is the host of two daily radio shows and one weekend radio show about consumer technology. On her weekly call-in show, she provides advice about technology gadgets, websites, smartphone apps, and internet security. ''The Kim Komando Show'' is broadcast and syndicated on over 435 radio stations in the United States and two stations in Ontario, Canada, to an estimated 3.5+ million listeners. Her ''Consumer Tech Update'' and '' Digital Life Hack ''airs on more than 390 stations seven days a week. Her radio shows are also heard internationally on the Armed Forces Radio Network, covering 177 countries. She hosts podcasts served to over 300,000 listeners per week. The ''Kim Komando Television Show'' premiered globally on Bloomberg TV on January 5, 2019. Kim Komando also hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM's Business Channel 130 called ''Tech Insights.'' Komando refers to herself on her web page as "America's Digital Goddess". , her website, Komando.com ...
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Todd Starnes
Todd Starnes (born October 28, 1967) is a conservative American columnist, commentator, author and radio host. He has appeared on ''Fox and Friends'' and ''Hannity''. In June 2017, Starnes began hosting a syndicated talk radio show on Fox News Radio. In October 2019, he was fired from Fox News and all affiliates after he endorsed the notion that American Democrats worship a pagan god, Moloch. In January 2020, Starnes, via his Starnes Media Group, purchased Memphis talk station 990 AM KWAM and translator 107.9 W300DE from Legacy Media for $685,000. KWAM will be the flagship station for Starnes' radio show. Life and career Starnes was born in Memphis, Tennessee. During the mid-1990s, he studied communication at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, where he was an editor of the college newspaper, ''The Clarion''. He has been a reporter and anchor at news/talk radio station KFBK in Sacramento, California and a writer for the Baptist Press. Starnes joined Fox News Channel in ...
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