KVKI-FM (96.5

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) is a

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broadcasting an

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music format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the Shreveport area. The station is currently owned by

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. Its studios are shared with its other five sister stations in West Shreveport (one mile west of

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), and the transmitter is in

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. The call letters were originally KBCL-FM, and later became religious station KEPT, before the call letters were changed to KVKI to be similar to the call letters of the popular KVIL radio station in Dallas, Texas.

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