KGLK

KGLK
City Lake Jackson, Texas
Broadcast area Greater Houston
Branding Houston's Eagle
Slogan "Houston's Only Classic Rock Station"
"Houston's Oldies Station"(HD2)
Frequency 107.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
107.5 HD-2 for Oldies
107.5 HD-3 for South Asian music (Hum FM Radio)
Translator(s) K291CE 106.1 MHz (relays HD3)
Repeaters KHPT 106.9 MHz
First air date November 10, 1980 (August 5, 1986 @ 107.5)
Format Classic Rock
ERP 95,000 watts
HAAT 601 meters
Class C
Facility ID 59951
Transmitter coordinates 29°17′16″N 95°13′53″W / 29.28778°N 95.23139°W / 29.28778; -95.23139
Callsign meaning K GL (Eagle) K
Former callsigns KGOL (1980-1986)
KZFX (1986-1994)
KRQT (1994-1995)
KTBZ (1995-2000)
KLDE (2000-2006)
KHTC (2006-2009)
Former frequencies 107.3 MHz (1980-1986)
Owner Cox Enterprises
(Cox Radio, Inc.)
Sister stations KHPT (simulcaster), KKBQ, KTHT
Webcast Listen Live
Website houstonseagle.com

KGLK (107.5 FM, "Houston's Eagle") is a classic rock formatted radio station licensed to serve the community of Lake Jackson, Texas, USA. It is owned by Cox Media Group. It is headquartered out of Suite 2300 at 1990 Post Oak Blvd in the Uptown district in Houston, Texas, United States.[1][2] Main transmitter facilities are located near Liverpool, TX[3] with a backup transmitter site co-located at the KKBQ backup site.[4]

History

Originally KGOL, broadcasting to Lake Jackson at 107.3 FM as a Gospel station in the early 1980s. The station moved north to include service to Houston and signed on at 107.5 FM on August 5, 1986 as classic rock KZFX "Z107". The station flipped to alternative rock on October 31, 1994 as KRQT "Rocket 107.5".[5] Under direction of new General Manager, Pat Fant (formerly of KLOL), re-launched the format in late May 1995 under the new callsign KTBZ and "107-5 The Buzz" moniker.[6]

The station continued as alternative rock until 2000, when the Clear Channel/AMFM merger went through, causing the new company to spin off two signals. The intellectual property of KLDE "Oldies 94.5" went to Cox Enterprises, along with the 107.5 facility and 97.1 KKTL (which was simulcasting the programming on 107.5). 97.1, now KTHT, operates separately as a classic country station.

Prior to the deal that sent the KLDE intellectual property to Cox, KLDE was at 94.5 FM. Prior owners included AMFM, Bonneville Corp. and Entercom. The oldies format was introduced in the late 1980s and has been under the direction of a variety of program directors including RC Rogers, Bob Harlow, Dennis Winslow, Ron Parker, and Ed Scarborough . Past General Managers include Steve Shepard, Chris McMurray, Chris Wegman, Caroline Devine. Mark Krieschen is currently Vice President and Market Manager.[7]

Recent changes

Since 2000, the station has undergone some changes. Afternoon "boss jock" Barry Kaye left in 2004, and in 2005 KLDE dropped any link to "Oldies" whatsoever, playing a mix of classic Top 40 known as classic hits, under the moniker "Houston's 107-5 KLDE" and slogan "The Greatest Hits of the 60's & 70's." The station was also the first to launch HD digital radio in the Houston market in January 2005, and the HD-2 channel was a mix of pre-1964 oldies. Most recently, the HD2 sub-channel, using the "Oldies 107.5" intellectual property since its 2006 sign-on, has been airing a playlist consisting of 1950s, 1960s and 1970s oldies, with 1960s music being the most prominent.

On July 10, 2006, the station changed branding to "107-5 The New K-Hits, Houston's home for the Greatest Hits of the 60's and 70's". It did not flip formats, fire all the DJs, or even change call letters, but did fire the morning team, to be replaced by longtime KRBE APD/afternoon DJ Scott Sparks.

On December 14, 2006, the station changed its call letters from the long time KLDE to KHTC.

On January 27, 2009, the station announced the addition of Dean and Rog from KKRW effective June 1, 2009.

On May 17, 2009, the station changed its call letters from KHTC to KGLK.

On June 1, 2009, the station changed its name to 107.5 The Eagle - Houston's Classic Hits and adopted a Classic Rock approach.

On June 20, 2011, sister station 106.9 KHPT began simulcasting KGLK's programming.[8]\

K291CE

K291CE
City Sugar Land, Texas
Broadcast area Greater Houston
Branding Hum FM Radio
Frequency 106.1 MHz
First air date 2012
Format South Asian music
Language(s) English
ERP 250 watts
Callsign meaning Serially assigned
Owner Primera Iglesia Evangelica de Apostoles y Profetas (operated by Hum Tum Radio)
Website humfmradio.com

K291CE (106.1 FM, Hum FM Radio) is a South Asian formatted FM radio station licensed to Sugar Land, Texas. For a time, It was known as "K-Breeze Sports Radio", a Classic hits and FBISD High School sports formatted station targeted at residents of Fort Bend County. In December 2014, It began rebroadcasting KMJQ-HD3, where the K-Breeze format was simulcast. Although licensed as a broadcast translator, it once originated its own programming, violating federal law. It did not broadcast in stereo until early 2015. It had falsely been licensed to rebroadcast several radio stations such as the nonexistent HD2 subchannel of KLOL and the HD3 subchannel of KGLK, which had, itself at the time, rebroadcast Houston NOAA weather radio station, KGG68. K291CE formerly rebroadcast KBRZ. In October 2015, the owners of K291CE (a Spanish-speaking evangelical church) forced RAFTT Corporation (the owners of the K-Breeze format) to rescind their lease to operate the station, at which point it was then leased to Hum Tum Radio, a South Asian broadcaster which, ironically, installed their format onto KGLK's HD3 subchannel after moving it from their previous outlet, KLVL 1480 AM.

Current jocks

The Morning Show with Dean and Rog is hosted by Dean and Rog w/Suzi Hanks who originated at 93.7 The Arrow (now KQBT). The mid-day host is Jennifer Tyler (formerly The Fabulous Jennifer Tyler) also from the former Arrow KQBT. Scott Sparks former APD of KRBE on afternoons, Maureen Cooper on evenings, and the station is fully automated overnight. Weekend hosts include Kelly Ryan (From the former Arrow), John Davis, Dan Cryer,and Mark Douglas(He has been with KLDE/KGLK since 1995)[9]

Former jocks

Former on-air personalities on KGLK include Susie "Carr" Loucks, Paul Christy, Ted Carson, Joe Ford, Barry Kaye, Michael "Vee" Valdez, Joe Martelle, Linda Cruz, Eddie Cruz, Mike McCarthy, Kevin Charles, Janice Dean, RC Rogers, J.D.Houston, Sheree Bernardi, Sean O'Neel, Col. St. James, Jerry Pelletier, Mark Megason, Bill Campbell, Dave E. Crockett, Ron Parker, Jackie Robbins, Kenny Miles, Ron Leonard, Bob Ford, Donna McKenzie, Chuck Contreras, The Catfish, Sheri Evans, Ken Sasso, Bob Edwards, and Mick Perry.

Callsign and moniker history

References

  1. ↑ "Contact Us." KHTC. Retrieved on April 24, 2009.
  2. ↑ "Uptown District Map." Uptown Houston District. Retrieved on January 30, 2009.
  3. ↑ https://maps.google.com/?q=http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/contourplot.kml%3Fgmap%3D2%26appid%3D1010217%26call%3DKGLK%26freq%3D107.5%26contour%3D60%26city%3DLAKE_JACKSON%26state%3DTX.kml
  4. ↑ https://maps.google.com/?q=http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/contourplot.kml%3Fgmap%3D2%26appid%3D1359772%26call%3DKGLK%26freq%3D107.5%26contour%3D60%26city%3DLAKE_JACKSON%26state%3DTX.kml
  5. ↑ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1994/RR-1994-11-04.pdf
  6. ↑ http://houstonradiohistory.blogspot.com/2010/10/fm-chronology-1960s-part-ii-khcb-fm.html
  7. ↑ http://www.houstonseagle.com/contact-us/
  8. ↑ http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/92845/cox-houston-changes-in-the-works
  9. ↑ http://www.1075theeagle.com/s/personalities/
  10. ↑ FCC KHTC Call Sign History

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