KVST is a
radio station
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airing a
country music
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format licensed to
Huntsville, Texas
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, broadcasting on 99.7 MHz FM. The station is owned by New Wavo Communication Group, Inc.
KVST
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K-Star History
The original KVST signed on in Huntsville, Texas
Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas. The population was 45,941 as of the 2020 census. It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area. Huntsville is in the East Texas Piney Woods on Interstate 45 and home to ...
at 103.5 as an Adult Contemporary station named "Star 103.5". The format was short-lived and yielded the way for the current K-Star country format. The frequency was changed later to 103.7 and then moved southward to Willis, Texas
Willis is a city in Montgomery County, Texas, United States, located eight miles north of Conroe in north central Montgomery County. The city began to develop in 1870 after what is now the Union Pacific Railroad built track through the area. As a ...
in hopes of covering the exploding populous around Montgomery County.
The original 99.7 signal in Huntsville came on the air as KUST from a transmit site west of Huntsville and was used as a replacement for the original K-Star at 103.7 (now KHJK
KHJK (103.7 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station, licensed to LaPorte, Texas and serving both Greater Houston and the Golden Triangle (Beaumont- Port Arthur-Orange). It is owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF). KHJK relays EMF's ...
) when it was moved to Willis. This facility came to life so as to expand the K-Star format back into Huntsville with a clear signal, which was lost when 103.7 moved to Willis.
103.7 was sold to Cumulus Broadcasting by New Wavo for $32 million in 2005. Once Cumulus assumed control of KVST, the company applied for and received a grant to uproot 103.7 again. This time, it moved to La Porte, upgrading to a full Class C facility, and traded calls with this facility as part of the license transfer, resulting in 103.7 becoming KUST La Porte, while KUST became KVST Huntsville. At the same time, New Wavo applied for and was granted a move of its own. Once receiving FCC approval, 99.7 was physically moved down Interstate Highway 45
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by trucks from Huntsville to the former transmit site near Willis used for 103.7, making the very same journey that New Wavo had made with 103.7 years before, and reimaged as "K-Star Country 99.7".
In July 2014, KVST filed an application to move from its tower west of Willis back north to the original 103.5/103.7 tower near Huntsville. This improves the station's signal in Huntsville and Trinity, Texas
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History
Trinity was founded in 1872 on land purchased from the New York and Texas Land Company. The town was a railroad station on the Houston ...
, while resulting in some loss of coverage in The Woodlands and northern Houston.
On-Air Staff
The Funny Farm with Brave Dave and Lisa Christi is the longest running, continuous, single station morning show in the Houston area. Texas radio hall of famers Larry Galla and Mary McCoy have been doing their classic show since 1998.
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