KHVL (1490
AM) is a
radio station
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, paired with two FM relay translators. Licensed to
Huntsville, Texas
Huntsville is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Texas. The population was 45,941 as of the 2020 census. It is the center of the Huntsville micropolitan area. Huntsville is in the East Texas Piney Woods on Interstate 45 and home t ...
, 1490 KHVL & 104.9 K285GE primarily serve Huntsville and the surrounding Walker County rural areas. 94.1 K231DA relays KHVL's programming to extend the signal into
Willis, Panorama Village, and Lake Conroe. The station's branding is The Lake and broadcasts a
classic hits
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format.
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History
KHVL was granted its License to Cover by the
Federal Communications Commission
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on November 1, 1938 as 1500
kHz
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KSAM @ 0.1 kilowatt daytime only. The facility was initially owned by the Sam Houston Broadcasting Association, H.G. Webster, President.
On April 14, 2022, KHVL changed its branding from "The Hits" to "The Lake", positioning as "More Music, More Fun" featuring a rock leaning classic hits playlist from the 1970s to the 1990s with more music from the 1990s coming.
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Classic hits radio stations in the United States
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