KODA (99.1
FM, "Sunny 99.1") is an American
commercial
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adult contemporary
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-formatted
radio station
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in
Houston, Texas. The station is owned by
iHeartMedia
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. Its
studio
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s and offices are located along the
West Loop Freeway in
Uptown Houston
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.
KODA has an
effective radiated power
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(ERP) of 100,000
watt
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s. The
Senior Road Tower
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transmitter
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is off Farm to Market Road 2234 near
Fort Bend Parkway
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in
Southwest Houston
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Many Section 8 (housing) complexes are located in Southwest Houston. ...
.
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/ref> KODA broadcasts in the HD Radio
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hybrid format, with its sister station
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KTRH
KTRH () is a commercial radio station licensed to Houston, Texas and owned by iHeartMedia that airs a talk radio format. Programming is also heard on co-owned KODA's HD 2 channel at , and the station uses the iHeartRadio platform to stre ...
simulcast
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ing on KODA's HD2 subchannel.
History
On Christmas Eve
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, 1946, the station signed on as KPRC-FM. It was owned by the ''Houston Post
The ''Houston Post'' was a newspaper that had its headquarters in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1995, the newspaper shut down, and its assets were purchased by the ''Houston Chronicle''.
History
Gail Borden Johnson founded the ''Houston Po ...
'' daily newspaper, which also owned KPRC and would put KPRC-TV
KPRC-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Graham Media Group. Its studios are located on Southwest Freeway ( I-69/ US 59) in the Southwest Management District (formerly Gre ...
on the air in 1949. (The call sign
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referred to Post Radio Company.) In its early years, KPRC-FM mostly simulcast its AM sister station.
KPRC-FM began broadcasting on 99.7 MHz
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until 1947 when it moved to 102.9 MHz. In 1958, the FM station was sold and changed its call sign to KHGM-FM. It moved to its current frequency in 1959.
In 1961, it changed call letters again, this time to KODA-FM, and aired a beautiful music
Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM, B/EZ or BM/EZ for "beautiful music/easy listening") is a mostly instrumental music format that was prominent in North American radio from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Easy listening, elevator m ...
format. (KODA refers to the musical term coda
Coda or CODA may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
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* ''Coda'' (1987 film), an Australian horror film about a serial killer, made for television
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, indicating an extended passage which brings a piece to an end.) Several months later, KODA
KODA (99.1 FM, "Sunny 99.1") is an American commercial adult contemporary-formatted radio station in Houston, Texas. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. Its studios and offices are located along the West Loop Freeway in Uptown Houston.
KO ...
(1010 AM) went on the air as an AM daytimer
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, with the two stations simulcasting. KODA-FM continued the station's programming independently from sunset to sunrise. KODA-AM-FM and their easy listening
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format proved to be quite popular, and enjoyed high ratings through the 1960s and 70s.
KODA-AM-FM were sold to Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting
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in 1978, and were shortly broken up when the AM station was quickly re-sold. The easy listening format continued on KODA-FM, which was renamed KODA when the AM station took new call letters. The station was the flagship radio station for the Houston Oilers
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(now the Tennessee Titans
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) of the National Football League
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during the 1986 season.
The station was sold to SFX Broadcasting in 1989. SFX was amalgamated into AM/FM Inc. and acquired by Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia
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) in 1999. By the mid-1990s, KODA had begun adding more vocals to its playlist
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, and reducing the instrumentals, until it made the transition to soft adult contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet s ...
.
The station, which had long been identified as K-O-D-A or "Coda", relabeled itself as "The All-New Sunny 99.1" in February 1991. The new moniker reflected the evolution from a Soft AC to Mainstream Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet ...
under the direction of General Manager Dusty Black and Program Director Dave Dillon. Since 2001, between mid-November and December 25, the station switches formats to all-Christmas music
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.
References
External links
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DFW Radio Archives - First FMs
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Radio stations established in 1946
1946 establishments in Texas
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