KPWJ and KKEE (107.7
FM, 101.3 FM) are a pair of
radio station
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s airing a simulcasted
Contemporary Christian Music
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format, licensed to
Kurten, Texas
Kurten is a town located along U.S. Highway 190 in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 398. It was incorporated in 2000 and is part of the Bryan–College Station metropolitan area.
Geography
Kurte ...
, and
Centerville, Texas respectively. The combined stations serve the
Bryan – College Station metropolitan area as well as Madisonville,
Buffalo,
Jewett and points east of Bryan-College Station, and are owned by Bryan Broadcasting License Corporation. The station's studios are located in College Station and the respective transmitters are in College Station and Centerville.
KPWJ was first proposed by Katherine Pyeatt as a Class A facility, operating at 101.3 MHz, with an ERP of 3.1 kilowatts, and an elevation of 141
meters
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height above average terrain, from a transmission site northwest of Madisonville. The facility was sold and the construction permit transferred to Robert Clint Crawford on December 30, 2009, under the licensee name of Southwest Radio Broadcasting.
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Bryan/College Station Gets Peace
Radio Insight. October 10, 2010. Accessed October 26, 2012
Crawford applied to change the facility's operating channel to the current 107.7, with a power increase to the full 6 kilowatts allowed for a Class A facility, from a tower site near
Texas State Highway 90
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in Madisonville. The modifications were granted by the FCC on February 19, 2010, and the facility received its first License to Cover at the new Madisonville site on April 6, 2010.
Bryan Broadcasting Corporation purchased KKLB on July 23, 2012. As a part of purchasing the facility, Bryan Broadcasting filed an application to move the facility from Madisonville to its current transmit site, requesting a change of COL to Kurten. A change of the callsign to its current KPWJ was granted on September 3, 2012, and the station was licensed to operate from the current site on January 15, 2013.
KKEE began broadcasting from its current site on January 11, 2017, simulcasting the "Peace" programming of sister station KPWJ, assuming the former frequency, and most of the coverage area of the original KKLB construction permit proposal.
References
External links
KPWJ's official website*
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Radio Locator Information on KKEE
PWJ
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