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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] |
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] |
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] |
KMOO
KMOO-FM (99.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic country format. Licensed to Mineola, Texas, United States, the station serves the Tyler-Longview area. "K-Moo" is currently owned by Hightower Radio, Inc. Studios and transmitter are located in Mineola. History KMOO-FM began broadcasting on December 16, 1977. It was owned by Sam and Joyce Curry, and was the FM sister station to KMOO. Under Curry's tenure, the station was referred to by its ownership and on air personalities solely as, "K M Double O," and not allowed to call the station "KMOO," with the last three letters pronounced in a manner similar to a noise made by cattle. Sam Curry sold the station in when he planned to embark on a race for Wood County Judge as a Democrat, a race he ultimately lost. In May , KMOO-FM was moved from its original operating frequency to , as part of a multi-station frequency swap, which resulted in KLIS Palestine, Texas moving to KMOO-FM's frequency, where it continues 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] |
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] |
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] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Classical Music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also applies to non-Western art music. Classical music is often characterized by formality and complexity in its musical form and harmonic organization, particularly with the use of polyphony. Since at least the ninth century it has been primarily a written tradition, spawning a sophisticated notational system, as well as accompanying literature in analytical, critical, historiographical, musicological and philosophical practices. A foundational component of Western Culture, classical music is frequently seen from the perspective of individual or groups of composers, whose compositions, personalities and beliefs have fundamentally shaped its history. Rooted in the patronage of churches and royal courts in Western Europe, surviving earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mineola, Texas
Mineola is a city in the U.S. state of Texas in Wood County, Texas, Wood County. It lies 26 miles north of Tyler. Its population was 4,823 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The town was incorporated as the railroads arrived in 1873. A railroad official, Ira H. Evans, combined the names of his daughter, Ola, and her friend, Minnie Patten, to create the city name Mineola. History Mineola came into existence when the railroads built lines through the eastern part of the state. In 1873, the Texas and Pacific Railway, Texas and Pacific and the International-Great Northern Railroad, International-Great Northern raced to see which could get to Mineola first. The I-GN reached the finish 15 minutes earlier. A city government was organized in 1873, a post office opened in 1875, and the town was incorporated in 1877, but a fire in the 1880s destroyed 18 buildings. The town's oldest paper, the ''Mineola Monitor'', was founded in 1876. By 1890, the town had seven churches, several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Reeves
James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville Sound. Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death in a plane crash. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame. Biography Early life and education Reeves was born at home in Galloway, Texas, a small rural community near Carthage. He was the youngest of eight children born to Mary Beulah Adams Reeves (1884-1980) and Thomas Middleton Reeves (1882-1924). He was known as Travis during his childhood years. Winning an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas, he enrolled to study speech and drama but quit after only six weeks to work in the shipyards in Houston. Soon he resumed baseball, playing in the semi-professional leagues before contracting with the St. Louis Cardinals "farm" team dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smith County, Texas
Smith County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 233,479. Its county seat is Tyler. Smith County is named for James Smith, a general during the Texas Revolution. Smith County is part of the Tyler metropolitan statistical area and the Tyler–Jacksonville combined statistical area. History For thousands of years, indigenous peoples occupied this area of present-day Texas. The first known inhabitants of the area now known as Smith County were the Caddo Indians, who were recorded here until 1819. That year, a band of Cherokees, led by The Bowl (also known as Chief Bowles), migrated from Georgia and settled in what are now Smith and Rusk Counties. The Treaty of Bowles Village on February 23, 1836, between the Republic of Texas and the Cherokee and 12 affiliated tribes, gave all of Smith and Cherokees Counties, as well as parts of western Rusk County, southern Gregg (formed from Rusk County in 1873) along with southeastern V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatum, Texas
Tatum is a city in Panola and Rusk counties in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 1,342 at the 2020 census. Geography Tatum is located at (32.314853, –94.518875). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Major highways * State Highway 43 * State Highway 149 * Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen climate classification, Tatum has a humid subtropical climate, ''Cfa'' on climate maps. Demographics As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,342 people, 494 households, and 320 families residing in the city. As of the census of 2000, 1,175 people, 459 households, and 324 families resided in the city. The population density was 309.9 people per square mile (119.7/km). The 523 housing units averaged 137.9/sq mi (53.3/km). The racial makeup of the city was 73.62% White, 16.43% African American, 0.51% Native Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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