WKBU (95.7
FM, "Bayou 95.7") is a radio station
licensed
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A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...
to
. Owned by
Audacy, Inc.
Audacy, Inc. is an American broadcasting company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1968 as Entercom Communications Corporation, it is the second largest radio company in the United States, owning 235 radio stations across 48 media ...
, it broadcasts a
classic rock
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format. It shares studios with its sister stations at
400 Poydras Tower in
downtown New Orleans, and the transmitter site is in the city's
Algiers
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district.
The station broadcasts in
HD Radio
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; its second subchannel carries ''Metal Militia''—a
heavy metal-based format which changed its name in 2018 from ''The Metal Channel''. The subchannel previously carried ''Live Rock''.
History
Before October 2005, the station was oldies WTKL.
WTKL was at one time beautiful music WBYU (called Bayou 96) before going through a succession of ill-fated formats from country as WQXY (Y-96) from 1987 to 1990 and adult contemporary as WMXZ (Mix 95.7) from 1990 to 1993 before settling on an oldies format that lasted for 12 years as Kool 95.7 FM.
Due to flood damage to its transmitter in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina
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, WKBU and WTKL switched frequencies in early-October 2005.
September 5, 2019, nationally syndicated
John Clay Wolfe
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Wolfe also hosts a nationally syndicated radio show ''The John Clay Wolfe Show'', broadcast coast to ...
Show joins WKBU on Saturday mornings.
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WKBU
WKBU (95.7 FM, "Bayou 95.7") is a radio station licensed to New Orleans. Owned by Audacy, Inc., it broadcasts a classic rock format. It shares studios with its sister stations at 400 Poydras Tower in downtown New Orleans, and the transmitter ...
Classic rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1953
Audacy, Inc. radio stations