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KOKA (980 kHz, "KOKA 980 AM, 93.3 FM") is an American radio station licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana. The station is broadcasting an urban gospel format. The station serves the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area. The station is owned by Alpha Media Alpha Media LLC is a radio broadcasting company based in Portland, Oregon, and led by Bob Proffitt. The group does business under the Alpha Media name. It was formed from the merger of Alpha Broadcasting, L&L Broadcasting, and Main Line Broadc ... LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Its studios are located just north of downtown Shreveport, and the transmitter is north of Cross Lake. History Former blues and gospel singer-songwriter Eddy Giles was a DJ at the station for 40 years. He was a gospel announcer, program director and music director. References External links * * Urban gospel radio stations in the United States Christian radio stations in Louisiana Alpha Media radio stations R ...
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Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. It extends along the west bank of the Red River of the South, Red River into neighboring Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Bossier Parish. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census tabulation for the city's population was 201,573, while the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area had a population of 393,406. Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas. It grew throughout the 20th century and, after the discovery of oil in Louisiana, became a national center for the oil industry. Standard Oil of Loui ...
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City Of License
In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator. In North American broadcast law, the concept of ''community of license'' dates to the early days of AM radio broadcasting. The requirement that a broadcasting station operate a ''main studio'' within a prescribed distance of the community which the station is licensed to serve appears in U.S. law as early as 1939. Various specific obligations have been applied to broadcasters by governments to fulfill public policy objectives of broadcast localism, both in radio and later also in television, based on the legislative presumption that a broadcaster fills a similar role to that held by community newspaper publishers. United States In the United States, the Communications Act of 1934 requires that "the Commission shall make such distribution of licenses, frequenci ...
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Radio Stations Established In 1950
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Alpha Media Radio Stations
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Christian Radio Stations In Louisiana
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Urban Gospel Radio Stations In The United States
Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * ''Urban'' (newspaper), a Danish free daily newspaper * Urban contemporary music, a radio music format * Urban Dictionary * Urban Outfitters, an American multinational lifestyle retail corporation * Urban Records, a German record label owned by Universal Music Group Place names in the United States * Urban, South Dakota, a ghost town * Urban, Washington, an unincorporated community See also * New Urbanism, urban design movement promoting sustainable land use * Pope Urban (other), the name of several popes of the Catholic Church * Urban cluster (other) * Urban forest inequity, inequitable distribution of trees, with their associated benefits, across metropolitan areas * Urban forestry ...
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KOKA TheLight980AM Logo
KOKA (980 kHz, "KOKA 980 AM, 93.3 FM") is an American radio station licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana. The station is broadcasting an urban gospel format. The station serves the Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area. The station is owned by Alpha Media Alpha Media LLC is a radio broadcasting company based in Portland, Oregon, and led by Bob Proffitt. The group does business under the Alpha Media name. It was formed from the merger of Alpha Broadcasting, L&L Broadcasting, and Main Line Broadc ... LLC, through licensee Alpha Media Licensee LLC. Its studios are located just north of downtown Shreveport, and the transmitter is north of Cross Lake. History Former blues and gospel singer-songwriter Eddy Giles was a DJ at the station for 40 years. He was a gospel announcer, program director and music director. References External links * * Urban gospel radio stations in the United States Christian radio stations in Louisiana Alpha Media radio stations Ra ...
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The Times (Shreveport)
''The Times'' is a Gannett daily newspaper based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Its distribution area includes 12 parishes in Northwest Louisiana and three counties in East Texas. Its coverage focuses on issues affecting the Shreveport-Bossier market, and includes investigative reporting, community news, arts and entertainment, government, education, sports, business, and religion, along with local opinion/commentary. Its website provides news updates, videos, photo galleries, forums, blogs, event calendars, entertainment, classifieds, contests, databases, and a regional search engine. Local news content produced by ''The Times'' is available on the website at no charge for seven days. History From 1895 to 1991, ''The Times'' had competition from the afternoon Monday-Saturday daily, the since defunct ''Shreveport Journal''. The papers were later printed at the same 222 Lake Street address and shared opposite sides of the building, but were entirely separate and independent of the oth ...
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Eddy Giles
Elbert Giles (March 17, 1938 – February 5, 2019), professionally known as Eddy Giles (sometimes also billed as Eddie Giles or Eddy "G" Giles), was an American R&B, blues and gospel singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his 1966 song, "Losin' Boy". Despite never achieving a mainstream success, he was a significant contributor to Southern soul, the genre made famous by artists such as Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, O. V. Wright, Otis Redding, and Sir Charles Jones. Giles was born in Frierson, Louisiana, in 1938, and was raised by his grandmother, Mary Wiggins, on a farm. While still in his senior year, he relocated to live with his mother in Shreveport, Louisiana, and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1958. Giles was a self-taught musician, and he learned to play guitar. In a 2015 interview with The Shreveport Times, he said his music influences were Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. The song "Losin' Boy", written by Giles, was issued ...
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Cross Lake (Shreveport, Louisiana)
Cross Lake () is a man-made lake located near Shreveport, Louisiana. The reservoir provides the water supply for the City of Shreveport. Moss covered cypress trees line the banks of this open lake popular for fishing and recreational boating. It supports waterfowl, alligators and an abundance of other wildlife. There are many access sites, several commercial facilities, and two public parks. The Cross Lake land was acquired by the City of Shreveport during the administration of Mayor John H. Eastman, 1910-1914. The reservoir was constructed thereafter under the administration of Mayor Lee Emmett Thomas, 1922-1930. Under Mayor Sam Caldwell, Cross Lake was stocked with fish. Ford Park, a recreational facility on the lake, is named for the former mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a Municipal corporation, municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers a ...
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Shreveport–Bossier City Metropolitan Area
The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, officially designated Shreveport–Bossier City by the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, or simply Greater Shreveport, is a metropolitan statistical area in North Louisiana, northwestern Louisiana that covers three parishes: Caddo Parish, Louisiana, Caddo, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Bossier, and DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, DeSoto. At the 2020 United States census, the metropolitan region had a population of 393,406; its American Community Survey population was 397,590 per census estimates. With a 2010 United States census, 2010 census population of 439,000, it declined to become Louisiana's fourth largest metropolis at 394,706 residents at the 2019 census estimates. Shreveport–Bossier City is the largest economic and cultural center of North Louisiana and the wider Ark-La-Tex region. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan region comprises the highest concentration of colleges and universities ...
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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 radio station, while in '' satellite radio'' the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network that provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast, or both. The encoding of a radio broadcast depends on whether it uses an analog or digital signal. Analog radio broadcasts use one of two types of radio wave modulation: amplitude modulation for AM radio, or frequency modulation for FM radio. Newer, digital radio stations transmit in several different digital audio standards, such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), HD radio, or DRM ( Digital Ra ...
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