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KTYK (100.7
FM) is a terrestrial non-commercial analog and digital
radio station
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, licensed to
Overton, Texas
Overton is a city in Rusk and Smith counties in the U.S. state of Texas. Overton lies in two counties as well as two metropolitan areas. The Rusk County portion of the city is part of the Longview Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Smi ...
, and broadcasting a
Public radio
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format, featuring news, talk, and elements of Classical, Jazz, and Blues music, as a part of the
Red River Radio Network. KTYK features news programming from
NPR
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and the
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, and serves the
Tyler Tyler may refer to:
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* Tyler, the Creator (born 1991), American rap artist and producer
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Longview,
Henderson Henderson may refer to:
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Rusk County area.
History
KTYK signed on November 6, 1961 as KIMP-FM in Mount Pleasant at 96.1 MHz. KIMP-FM was the original FM sister to 960
KIMP
KIMP (960 AM) is a terrestrial American radio station, paired with an FM translator, and broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. Licensed to Mount Pleasant, Texas, United States, the station is owned by East Texas Broadcasting, Inc.
Translator
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. It moved to 100.7 MHz in the mid-1960s and changed call letters to KPXI in 1974. It carried a beautiful music/easy listening format until the mid-1980s, when it shifted to a gold-based AC format that began phasing out the older music and playing more uptempo songs.
By 1988, it went straight ahead CHR as "X-100". X-100 attempted to compete in the
Tyler Tyler may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Tyler (name), an English name; with lists of people with the surname or given name
* Tyler, the Creator (born 1991), American rap artist and producer
* John Tyler, 10th president of the United ...
market with a signal that covered a large area of northeast Texas, but rarely showed significant numbers in Tyler due to its limited signal strength within the city.
In 1991, KPXI shifted back to an Adult Contemporary format, but flipped to country music by the end of the year. It ran various derivatives of country under the branding of "K-101" until it was moved to Overton and downgraded to a C3 signal in June 1999, so that co-channel
KRJT
KRJT (105.9 FM broadcasting, FM, "Boomer Radio 95.3 & 105.9") is an American radio station city of license, licensed to serve the city of license, community of Elgin, Oregon. The station is owned by the Pacific Empire Radio Corporation. All five s ...
100.7 could relocate from
Bowie to
Highland Village as
KLTY
KLTY (94.9 FM) is owned by the Salem Media Group with studios located in Irving, Texas, near Dallas and a transmitter in Cedar Hill. The format is similar to the "Fish" branded stations Salem owns elsewhere and its slogan is: "Your Life...Insp ...
, which later changed calls to
KWRD-FM
KWRD-FM (100.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Highland Village, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned by the Salem Media Group and broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format. The call sign ...
, in order to rimshot the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. After briefly running a stand-alone oldies format, KPXI was then simulcasted on the co-channel Highland Village licensed 100.7 MHz.
KPXI was owned by various members of the Ward family from its sign on in the early 1960s until it went into receivership in the 1990-91 timeframe. East Texas Broadcasting purchased it from the receiver and sold it to Sunburst, which owned other Tyler/Longview market stations at the time, when it began the process of moving KRJT into Dallas/Ft. Worth. Sunburst exited the radio business in 2000 and sold KPXI to Salem along with KLTY. Sunburst's other Tyler/Longview area stations were sold to Waller Broadcasting.
Jerry Hanszen purchased KPXI from
Salem Media
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subsidiary Inspiration Media of Texas, LLC on June 3, 2009. In doing so, KPXI became the sister station to co-owned
KWRD in Henderson, which Hanszen has purchased from former Tyler City Councilman Jerry Russell. KPXI would cease simulcasting co-channel
KWRD-FM
KWRD-FM (100.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Highland Village, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned by the Salem Media Group and broadcasts a Christian talk and teaching radio format. The call sign ...
once the sale was consummated between the two parties, and launched a
Classic Country
Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades.
Repertoire
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format as "The Heartbeat of East Texas, KPXI 100.7 FM".
On September 12, 2018, a license transfer of the KPXI facility was granted by the
Federal Communications Commission
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, from Hanszen Broadcasting to the Board of Supervisors at
Louisiana State University
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and A&M College, after the two parties had reached a deal for L.S.U. to acquire the station. Neither sister station KWRD, nor its FM relay translator, was included in the sale.
On October 11, 2018, KPXI was taken silent, in preparation of the facility's acquisition by Louisiana State University. As a result of the sale of KPXI, now former sister station
KWRD has returned to its heritage
country
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format, along with its FM relay translator at 98.5 MHz, dropping
NBC Sports Radio
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in the process.
Consummation of the license transfer also occurred on October 11, 2018, with KPXI dropping the longtime call letters associated with the facility that it had retained in the move from Mount Pleasant to Overton, changing to the current KTYK, which is representative of the programming focused target cities of Tyler and Kilgore, on October 12, 2018, one day after temporarily going silent in preparation of the transfer to
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSU Shreveport or LSUS) is a public university in Shreveport, Louisiana. It is part of the Louisiana State University System. Initially, a two-year college, LSUS has expanded into a university with 21 ...
.
Programming
Red River Radio (RRR) is affiliated with
National Public Radio
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, broadcasting many popular NPR programs, which include
Morning Edition
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,
All Things Considered
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,
Fresh Air
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,
World Cafe,
Car Talk
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,
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me, and
From the Top
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. Red River Radio provides local news segments on weekday mornings during Morning Edition.
KTYK HD2 airs
Classical music
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24 hours a day. KTYK HD3 utilizes programming from
NPR
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and the
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services to produce a 24 hour