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) is a

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to Rollingwood,

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, and serving the

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. The station airs a

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and is owned by Audacy, Inc. The

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s and offices are on Westbank Drive, off

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, near Westlake High School. The

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is off Johnny Morris Road, near Loyola Lane. In 2015, the station began

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ing on

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, heard on the

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95.5 KKMJ-HD2.

Programming

KJCE has one local talk show, heard 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays. "Cardle & Woolley" features Jim Cardle and Lynn Woolley. For the rest of the weekday schedule, KJCE runs mostly

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shows, including

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, Michael Berry (based at

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(from WOAI

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. Syndicated weekend hosts include

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and Bill Cunningham. KJCE runs

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at the top and bottom of the hour. The station also carries college football and

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games from

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History

The station

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in 1948, and held the

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KTXN.
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, 1958. p. A-371. Retrieved August 12, 2020.History Cards for KJCE
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s during daytime hours only. On August 28, 1958, the call sign was changed to KOKE. It mostly

the legendary KOKE-FM

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radio brand in Austin in the 1970s. (An FM sister station 95.5 KOKE-FM, signed on in 1968, not related to today's KOKE-FM 99.7.) In 1991, it switched to a

of the

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sound on KKMJ-FM, using the call sign KKMJ. In 1992, the station rebranded as "K-Juice 1370," with the call letters changing to KJCE. KJCE's new format originally consisted exclusively of satellite-delivered

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. In 1996, under new program and news director Benjamin Bryant, it switched to a mix of satellite-delivered

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music with limited local news,

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, and

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. At that point, KJCE first began broadcasting Texas A&M football games. In 1997, Bryant received two Paul R. Ellis Media Awards from the American Heart Association of Texas for KJCE's coverage of heart disease and stroke risk in Austin's most vulnerable communities. KJCE became a talk station in 2002. The station formerly

on the HD3 subchannel of sister station KKMJ-FM "Majic 95.5" as well as

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K242CC at 96.3 MHz. On July 29, 2013, both outlets dropped KJCE. In 2015, KJCE's talk programming returned to the HD2 subchannel of 95.5 KKMJ.

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* * {{Entercom JCE News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1948 Audacy, Inc. radio stations 1948 establishments in Texas