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KGOW
KGOW (1560 AM broadcasting, AM) is a Vietnamese language terrestrial Full-service radio, full service radio station based in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States, owned by Gow Media, LLC. KGOW's programming schedule is leased to a third party group that utilizes the broadcast day to air Vietnamese focused programming for southwest Houston, Bellaire, and the areas in southwest Harris County where 1560's signal is strongest. Viet Radio programming is simulcasted on 1480 KNGO Dallas. The daytime transmitter site is located in Lochridge, Texas, across from Brazos Bend State Park. The nighttime transmitter site is in western Harris County, Texas, Harris County, halfway between Katy, Texas and Hockley, Texas. KGOW used its nighttime authorization at 15 kilowatts full-time, as the 46 kilowatt daytime site was damaged by floodwaters during a flooding event in 2016, then again in Hurricane Harvey. KGOW did not operate on the day power for over one year, authorized by the Federal Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNGO
KNGO (1480 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial Vietnamese Full-service radio, full service radio station licensed to serve Dallas, Dallas, Texas, and covering the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. It calls itself "Viet Radio" and simulcasts its programming with KGOW, KGOW (1560 AM) in Bellaire, Texas. Owned by Viet Media LLC, the KNGO transmitter is located off of South Saint Augustine Road in Dallas. History The station signed on as KGKO in 1952, which played a mixture of pop music and jazz. In 1958 in radio, 1958, KGKO changed its call sign to KBOX, adopting a Contemporary Hit Radio, Top 40 format to compete with Gordon McLendon's top-rated KFXR (AM), KLIF (1190 AM). The KBOX call sign was chosen because the station was owned by John F. Box. Future WABC (AM), WABC disc jockey Dan Ingram was an early voice on KBOX. Within a year, the station, known variously as "Wonderful K-Box in Dallas," "Big Top Radio" and "Tiger Radio," had rocketed from the bottom of the rati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFNC
KFNC (97.5 FM broadcasting, FM; "ESPN Houston") is a commercial radio, commercial radio station city of license, licensed to Mont Belvieu, Texas. KFNC is paired with a broadcast relay station, translator, K223CW, licensed to Houston. The facilities serve the Greater Houston and Golden Triangle (Texas), Golden Triangle areas of southeast Texas. The station is owned by David Gow, through licensee Gow Media, LLC, with radio studio, studios and offices in Uptown Houston one block from The Galleria (Houston), The Galleria. KFNC is a network affiliate of ESPN Radio, carried late nights and weekends. Local sports shows are heard weekdays from 7 a.m. to midnight and on weekend mornings. KFNC has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the highest permitted for non-grandfather clause, grandfathered FM stations. The transmitter is off Route 124 in Anahuac, Texas. A 2,000 watt broadcast relay station, booster, KFNC-FM-1, had its transmitter off West Baker Road in Baytown, Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lochridge, Texas
Lochridge is an unincorporated community located in Brazoria County, Texas, United States. It formerly had a distinct community. It is located within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. History Lochridge began with a farm and a grocery store. A post office was established at Lochridge in 1913, with Blackburn Lochridge as postmaster. He later built a gin and sent telephone service to the area and died in 1929. His son Tom maintained the only business in the area until his mother died and moved to Rosharon. There were several scattered houses in the area, alongside the post office, in the 1930s. Lochridge no longer found representation in the Census by 1950. Geography Lochridge is located on Texas State Highway 1462, west of Rosharon in northwestern Brazoria County. Education Angleton Independent School District operates schools in the area. Children in the area attend Frontier Elementary School, Angleton Junior High School, and Angleton High School in Angleton. Media KGO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNAL (FM)
KNAL (93.3 FM; ''93.3 The Wolf'') is a radio station licensed to Port Lavaca, Texas, United States, and serves Victoria and the Gulf Coast area. The station is currently owned by Victoria Radioworks, LLC., and airs a country music format. History KNAL was originally proposed by Daniel Andrus, who owned the AM facility in Port Lavaca, 1560 KGUL, under the licensee name of Calhoun County Broadcasting. The facility signed on as the FM sister to KGUL on April 13, 1978, as KGUL-FM. The original transmission site was located on U.S. Highway 87, 1.5 miles west of Port Lavaca, Texas, and a main studio location at 213 Colorado Street in Port Lavaca. The facility was originally operating on channel 240 (95.9 MHz), but relocated to channel 227 (93.3 MHz) in the early 80s to allow 95.7 at Houston (known as KIKK-FM at the time) to relocate from Shell Plaza in downtown Houston to the Senior Road tower near Missouri City. This allowed other spectrum changes. For example, in 1995 a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston, Texas
Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of Harris County, Texas, Harris County, as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the List of Texas metropolitan areas, second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Dallas–Fort Worth. With a population of 2,314,157 in 2023, Houston is the List of United States cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the United States after New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and the List of North American cities by population, sixth-most populous city in North America. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the List of United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Galleria (Houston)
The Galleria, stylized theGalleria and also known as the Houston Galleria, is an upscale mixed-use urban development and shopping mall located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas, United States.Uptown Houston Map. ''''. Uptwon-houston.com, Accessed July 22, 2008. The development consists of a retail complex, the Galleria Office Towers complex, two Westin hotels, and a private health club. The office towers and ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHMC
KHMC and KHMC-FM1 (95.9 FM) is a terrestrial American radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ..., relayed by a licensed FM booster, broadcasting a Tejano format. Licensed to Goliad, Texas, the station serves the Victoria, Texas area, and is owned by Minerva R. Lopez. References External links KHMC's webpage* HMC {{Texas-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellaire, Texas
Bellaire is a city in southwestern Harris County, Texas, United States, within the metropolitan area.. Retrieved on January 24, 2010. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, the city population was 17,202. It is surrounded by the cities of Houston and West University Place, Texas, West University Place. Bellaire is known as the "City of Homes", owing to its mostly residential character; but it has offices along the Interstate 610 (Texas), I-610 Loop within the city limits. History Bellaire was founded in 1908 by William Wright Baldwin, who was the president of the South End Land Company. Baldwin, a native of Iowa, was well known as the vice president of the Burlington Railroad. Bellaire was created on what was part of William Marsh Rice's ranch. Baldwin surveyed the eastern of the ranch into small truck farms. He named them "Westmoreland Farms". Baldwin started Bellaire in the middle of "Westmoreland Farms" to serve as a residential neighborhood and an agri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KRLD (AM)
KRLD ( ''NewsRadio 1080 KRLD'') is a commercial AM radio station in Dallas, Texas. Owned and operated by Audacy, Inc., the station runs news blocks during morning and afternoon drive time, with talk shows the rest of the day. Syndicated shows include ''The Chad Benson Show'', '' The Dave Ramsey Show'', ''Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb'' and '' America in the Morning with John Trout''. Audio simulcasts of the ''CBS Evening News'' were also presented on weekday evenings. Some weekend hours carry paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with CBS News Radio. The studios and offices are in Uptown Dallas. KRLD is a Class A, , clear channel station. The daytime signal is non-directional, covering North Texas and part of Oklahoma. KRLD shares AM 1080 with Class A WTIC Hartford, so at night, KRLD switches to a directional antenna, using a two- tower array. The transmitter is in Garland, off Saturn Road. KRLD's AM station also broadcasts in HD Radio. KRLD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Harvey was a devastating tropical cyclone that made landfall in Texas and Louisiana in August 2017, causing catastrophic flooding and more than 100 deaths. It is tied with 2005's Hurricane Katrina as the costliest tropical cyclone on record, inflicting $125 billion (2017 USD) in damage, primarily from catastrophic rainfall-triggered flooding in Greater Houston and Southeast Texas; this made the storm the costliest natural disaster recorded in Texas at the time. It was the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States since Wilma in 2005, ending a record 12-year span in which no hurricanes made landfall at the intensity of a major hurricane throughout the country. In a four-day period, many areas received more than of rain as the system slowly meandered over eastern Texas and adjacent waters, causing unprecedented flooding. With peak accumulations of , in Nederland, Texas, Harvey was the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBAP (AM)
WBAP () is an AM news/talk radio station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. WBAP is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts with from a transmitter site in the northwest corner of Mansfield. Its programming is also simulcast on WBAP-FM (93.3) in Haltom City. WBAP is a Class A clear-channel station, using a non-directional antenna. Its nighttime signal can often be heard throughout the Southern, Central, and Midwestern states and Northern Mexico, while its daytime signal provides at least secondary coverage from Oklahoma City to Austin. WBAP is one of the oldest radio stations in Texas, dating back to 1922, when stations in Texas were still given call signs beginning with "W" instead of "K". Emergency preparedness WBAP and sister station KSCS are responsible for activation of the North Texas Emergency Alert System when hazardous weather alerts, Disaster area declarations, and child abductions are issued. During a severe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
