KYMK-FM is a commercial
radio station
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located in
Maurice, Louisiana, broadcasting to the
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette (, ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and the most populous city and parish seat of Lafayette Parish, located along the Vermilion River. It is Louisiana's fourth largest incorporated municipality by population and the 234th- ...
area on 106.3
FM. KYMK airs an
alternative rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstre ...
music format branded as "106Three Radio Lafayette."
Pittman flipped 106.3 to urban contemporary (as "The Juice 106.3") in 2009. Before that, they flipped to Hot AC from
Jones Radio Networks
Jones Radio Networks & Jones Media Group were branches of Jones International before being sold to Triton Media Group. JRN and JMN provide local radio stations with satellite-delivered formats. They also offer other services to local radio such ...
' Smooth Jazz format on Friday, March 28, 2008. On March 31, the station officially switched calls from KKSJ to KYMK. As a smooth jazz-formatted station, KKSJ was branded as "Smooth Jazz 106".
KYMK's studios are located on Evangeline Thruway in Carencro, and its transmitter is located southwest of Maurice in rural
Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
Vermilion Parish (french: Paroisse de Vermillion) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana, created in 1844. The parish seat is Abbeville. Vermilion Parish is part of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area, and located in southern ...
.
Current on-air staff
Leblanc - Mornings
Morgan Pierce - Middays and Homegrown (specialty show)
Brigette Rose - Afternoons
Clint Domingue - Weeknights and Saturdays
Tanya Ardoin - Sundays (specialty show)
References
External links
106Three Radio Lafayette*
Radio stations in Louisiana
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