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KYZS
KYZS (1490 AM) is a terrestrial radio station licensed to Tyler, Texas, paired with an FM translator, and simlucast with sister station 1240 KDOK Kilgore, serving the Tyler-Longview market with a classic hits format. The station, and translator, are owned by Charles Conrad through licensee Chalk Hill Communications, LLC. Translator History Early Days of KGKB; move to Tyler The facility was first proposed on March 27, 1928, by E.M., C.T., and E.E. Wilson, d.b.a. the Eagle Broadcasting Company. An application for a construction permit was filed to operate at 1070 kHz, with 50 watts of power, from a transmission site at Fisher & 5th Street in Goldthwaite, Texas. KGKB received its first License to Cover on May 22, 1928. The facility was again modified and requested an amendment of the license on December 6, 1928, moving the transmission site to Brownwood and the broadcast studio location to Howard Payne College. An amendment was requested to move KGKB's operating channel to 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KDOK
KDOK (1240 AM) is a terrestrial radio station licensed to Kilgore, Texas, United States, paired with an FM translator, and simulcast with sister station 1490 KYZS, serving the Tyler-Longview market with a Classic hits format. KDOK signed on the air in 1936 as KOCA, which represented the slogan "Kilgore - Oil Capital of America". The facility is the third oldest licensed broadcast station in East Texas, surpassed only by its broadcast partner 1490 KYZS KYZS (1490 AM) is a terrestrial radio station licensed to Tyler, Texas, paired with an FM translator, and simlucast with sister station 1240 KDOK Kilgore, serving the Tyler-Longview market with a classic hits format. The station, and translator, ... Tyler, signing on in 1931, and 1370 KFRO Longview in 1935. Translators History KOCA had a long and rich history of serving the Kilgore community. It ceased to exist on February 9, 1987, as the station became KTXC. On September 15, 1988, the station changed its call sign once ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KZQX
KZQX (100.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Tatum, Texas, United States, serving the Tyler-Longview market with an Oldies and Adult Standards format. K250AJ (97.9 FM) is an FM translator, licensed to Tyler, Texas, extending the KZQX coverage area to the City of Tyler and southern Smith County, Texas. The station is owned by Charles Conrad through licensee Chalk Hill Communications, LLC.; the translator is owned by the East Texas Community Repeater Group, based in Henderson, Texas. Radio Locator. Accessed December 21, 2013. History The facility and license began in Henderson as KGRI-FM, at 99.9 MHz. It was the original FM counterpart to the now surrendered and deleted AM 1000 KG ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Texas
The following is a list of FCC-licensed AM and FM radio stations in the U.S. state of Texas, which can be sorted by their call signs, broadcast frequencies, cities of license, licensees, or programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * KBAL-FM * KCER-LP * KERB-FM * KJNZ * KJOJ-FM * KLBW * KMUL * KM2XVL * KNSH * KOTY * KOZA * KPHS * KPRO * KQTY * KRHC * KSTB * KULF * KXAL-LP * KXGC-FM * KZSP See also * Texas media ** List of newspapers in Texas ** List of television stations in Texas ** Media of cities in Texas: Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Beaumont, Brownsville, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston, Killeen, Laredo, Lubbock, McAllen, McKinney, Midland, Odessa, San Antonio, Waco, Wichita Falls * Texas DX Society (ham radio) References Bibliography * * External links www.radiomap.us – List of radio stations in Dallas, Texaswww.radiomap.us – List of radio stations in Houston, Texas* (Directory ceased in 2017) Texas Association of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the largest city and county seat of Smith County, Texas, Smith County. It is also the largest city in Northeast Texas. With a 2020 census population of 105,995, Tyler was the List of cities in Texas by population, 33rd most populous city in Texas and List of United States cities by population, 299th in the United States. It is the principal city of the Tyler metropolitan area, Greater Tyler metropolitan statistical area, which is the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 198th most populous metropolitan area in the United States, U.S. and List of Texas metropolitan areas, 16th in Texas after Waco metropolitan area, Waco and the Bryan–College Station, College Station–Bryan areas, with a population of 233,479 in 2020. The city is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. In 1985, the international Adopt-a-Highway movement began in Tyler. After appeals from local Texas Department of Transportation officials, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KGLD
KGLD (1330 AM) is a terrestrial American radio station, relayed by an FM translator, broadcasting a Gospel music format. Licensed to Tyler, Texas, United States, the station serves the Tyler-Longview area. The station is currently owned by Salt of the Earth Broadcasting. Translator History KDOK began broadcasting activities on February 16, 1956 as the original Top 40 station in Tyler, owned by Buford Broadcasting, and co-owned and operated with KLTV KLTV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Tyler, Texas, United States, serving East Texas as an affiliate of ABC and Telemundo. K31PR-D (channel 31) is a digital translator, also licensed to Tyler, in full simulcast with the primary ... television. In 1965, Buford Broadcasting sold 1330 KDOK to the owners of KZAK-FM, who desired an AM outlet for their country and western format. As a result, the Top 40 format was dropped on 1330 after 9 years, as it flipped formats to country music, mostly simulcasting the FM, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Radio
Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sport, sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-low comedy, boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both :wikt:host, hosts and caller (telecommunications), callers. Many sports talk stations also carry play-by-play (live commentary) of local sports teams as part of their regular programming. Hosted by Bill Mazer, the first sports talk radio show in history launched in March 1964 on New York's WNBC (AM). Soon after WNBC launched its program, in 1965 Seton Hall University's radio station, WSOU, started ''Hall Line'', a call-in sports radio talk show focusing on the team's Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball, basketball program. Having celebrated its 50th anniversary on air during the 2015–2016 season, ''Hall Line'', which broadcasts to central and northern New Jersey as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to describe a genre of music, although this was not the only style of music played by big bands. Big bands started as accompaniment for dancing. In contrast to the typical jazz emphasis on improvisation, big bands relied on written compositions and arrangements. They gave a greater role to bandleaders, arrangers, and sections of instruments rather than soloists. Instruments Big bands generally have four sections: trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and a rhythm section of guitar, piano, double bass, and drums. The division in early big bands, from the 1920s to 1930s, was typically two or three trumpets, one or two trombones, three or four sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTYK
KTYK (100.7 FM) is a terrestrial non-commercial analog and digital radio station, licensed to Overton, Texas, and broadcasting a Public radio format, featuring news, talk, and elements of Classical, Jazz, and Blues music, as a part of the Red River Radio Network. KTYK features news programming from NPR and the BBC, and serves the Tyler- Longview, Henderson- Rusk County area. History KTYK signed on November 6, 1961 as KIMP-FM in Mount Pleasant at 96.1 MHz. KIMP-FM was the original FM sister to 960 KIMP. It moved to 100.7 MHz in the mid-1960s and changed call letters to KPXI in 1974. It carried a beautiful music/easy listening format until the mid-1980s, when it shifted to a gold-based AC format that began phasing out the older music and playing more uptempo songs. By 1988, it went straight ahead CHR as "X-100". X-100 attempted to compete in the Tyler market with a signal that covered a large area of northeast Texas, but rarely showed significant numbers in Tyler due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTYL-FM
KTYL-FM (93.1 MHz) is a Townsquare Media radio station, licensed to Tyler, Texas, serving the Tyler- Longview-Jacksonville area, with a Top 40 (CHR) format. KTYL operates with an ERP of 82 kW from a transmitter site near Overton in western Rusk County. Studios are located on Brookside Drive in south Tyler in a building shared with Townsquare's other Tyler stations. History KSLT – Tyler's first FM station The initial construction permit for 93.1 was issued by the FCC on February 1, 1961, to Oil Center Broadcasting Company, owned by L.S. Torrans and Bryan L. Scott of Tyler. Construction of the station was completed by June of that year. Scott noted that the music broadcast by the station would include "everything that has withstood the test of time", which did not include rock and roll. The station was on the air by June 29. It originally operated with 5 kW of power from between the hours 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. KTYL featured an adult contemporary (AC) format from the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
