KRUF (94.5 FM, "K945") is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

broadcasting a Top 40 (CHR) format. The station serves the Shreveport, Louisiana, area. The station is currently owned by

Townsquare Media Townsquare Media, Inc. (formerly Regent Communications until 2010) is an American radio network and media company based in Purchase, New York. The company started in radio and expanded into digital media toward the end of the 2000s, starting wi ...

. Its studios are shared with its other five sister stations in West Shreveport (one mile west of Shreveport Regional Airport), and the transmitter is in

Mooringsport, Louisiana 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 Moori ...

. The call letters before becoming KRUF were KWKH and KROK and had air personalities such as Tim Brando of CBS sports back in the late seventies, early eighties. K 94.5 is one of the few live and local radio stations left in town with Jay Whatley in the afternoons and Chica in The Morning every morning.

History

K 94.5 signed on August 12, 1996, as "Big Dog 94-5" and has broadcast in its current Top 40 format for 25 years. Previous to adopting the KRUF call letters, K 94.5 was known as KWKH-FM, sister station to the legendary

KWKH KWKH (1130 AM) is a sports radio station serving Shreveport, Louisiana. The 50-kilowatt station broadcasts at 1130 kHz. Formerly owned by Clear Channel Communications and Gap Central Broadcasting, it is now owned by Townsquare Media. Its studi ...

, home of the Louisiana Hayride. KWKH-FM began broadcasting November 21, 1948. It was operated by International Broadcasting Corporation, which was owned by

The Shreveport Times ''The Times'' is a Gannett daily newspaper based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Its distribution area includes 12 parishes in Northwest Louisiana and three counties in East Texas. Its coverage focuses on issues affecting the Shreveport-Bossier mar ...

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External links

K94.5 official website
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