KTBB-FM (97.5

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, serving the

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- Longview market with a

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. The station is owned by Paul Gleiser, through licensee ATW Media, LLC.,and is in full

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with co-owned KTBB

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s for KTBB-AM and FM are co-located with

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in One American Center at 909 ESE Loop 323, at the intersection with New Copeland Road; the

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is on County Road 246 South in

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Programming

On weekdays, KTBB-AM-FM features two hours of news in the morning and an hour of news and information in the afternoon

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. The remainder of the weekday schedule consists of syndicated

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shows, including ''

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'',

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’s ''Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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with

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'' and ''

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''. Weekends feature programs about money, health, religion, real estate, fishing and hunting, guns, cars, farming, home repair, gardening, pets, and technology. Weekend hosts include

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and repeats of weekday shows. Most hours begin with world and national news from

History

KWRW began broadcasting in 1981, licensed to

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. The station originally broadcast at 97.7 MHz and was owned by State Representative Emmett Holman Whitehead. KWRW featured a full-service format with contemporary music, specialty shows, and news during the first six years of operation. The original call letters, KWRW, were chosen by Representative and Mrs. Whitehead in honor of their daughter, Dr. Wendee Whitehead. KWRW was originally licensed at 3,000 watts from the

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tower in Rusk. In order to extend KWRW's signal beyond Cherokee County, Whitehead applied for and was granted a relay translator at 103.9 FM, licensed as K280CL

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in 1985. In addition, KWRW upgraded to 25,000 watts prior to its city of license change to Troup. On January 15, 2009, KWRW changed formats from oldies to

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and rebranded as "Classic Hits 97.7". KWRW and K280CL remained together for almost 20 years until Whitehead's passing and subsequent transfer of KWRW, the relay translator, and sister AM station

to ''The Cherokeean Herald''. KWRW was later purchased by Paul Gleiser in March 2015. As part of the purchase, a request to move the KWRW facility from Rusk to Troup was applied for and granted by the

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. The current 97.5 Troup facility began broadcasting as KTBB-FM on May 15, 2015. K280CL subsequently moved from Palestine to Rusk and became the translator for

1580 AM Jacksonville.

References

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* TBB-FM News and talk radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1981 {{Texas-radio-station-stub