KULF

This article is about the current AM 1090 at Bellville. For other stations with this callsign, see KULF (disambiguation).
KULF
City Bellville, Texas
Broadcast area Victoria, Texas, Houston, Texas
Frequency 1090 kHz
First air date November 19, 1974 (1974-11-19) (license)
Format Dark
Power 1,000 watts day only
Class D
Facility ID 48653
Transmitter coordinates 29°56′50.00″N 96°15′54.00″W / 29.9472222°N 96.2650000°W / 29.9472222; -96.2650000Coordinates: 29°56′50.00″N 96°15′54.00″W / 29.9472222°N 96.2650000°W / 29.9472222; -96.2650000
Former callsigns KBAL (November 20–December 14, 2009)
KNUZ (AM) (1997–2009)
KFRD (1993–1997)
KACO (1974–1993)
Owner Jerome Friemel
(JLF Communications, LLC)

KULF (1090 kHz) was an AM daytimer radio station based in Bellville, Texas. [1] Licensed to Bellville, Texas, USA, it served the Victoria, Texas and Houston, Texas regional area. The station is currently owned by Jerome Friemel, through licensee JLF Communications, LLC.[2]

The station operated on a Class D daytime license on 1090 kHz. Because KULF shared the same frequency as clear-channel station station KAAY in Little Rock, Arkansas, it only broadcast during daytime hours.

1090 signed on the air in 1974 as Austin County's first and only licensed radio station. It was owned by Mr. & Mrs. J. Lee Dittert. 1090 was granted the calls of KACO, representing not just service to its community of license Bellville, but to the entire Austin County population. KACO started as a 250 watt daytimer featuring a country & western format. In 2010, 1090 moved its tower site out of the City of Bellville itself, opting to build a new site 8 miles southeast of Bellville, Texas with an increase in power to 1 kilowatt, in an effort to cover more of the Houston-Galveston metropolitan area. In 1993, the Dittert family sold the facility to Roy Henderson, and the original KACO calls would be retired, as 1090 changed its callsign to KFRD, which had been at 980 AM in Rosenberg, Texas since its sign on in 1949. 4 years later, 1090 received a grant to change its call letters again and use the KNUZ calls that had occupied 1230 AM in Houston since the 1940s. As KNUZ, and under Roy Henderson's direction, the station simulcasted "Lite 94.1" KLTR out of Brenham. In 2009 the facility dropped the KNUZ call letters and briefly used KBAL, until a switch could be made with the co-owned facility in San Saba. As a result of the call switch, the KNUZ calls are now used for 106.1 FM in San Saba, Texas, the former KBAL.

In December 2009, the station was sold for a reported $500,000 by Roy E. Henderson to JHT Ventures, Inc., 100% controlled by Janice Hollan. JHT sold KULF to Jerome Friemel's JLF Communications, LLC at a purchase price of $10,000; the transaction was consummated on January 29, 2013.

As of January 2016, KULF has been taken dark as a result of non-payment of rent to the landowner on which the KULF towers and transmission equipment reside. According to radio insider sources, the landowner has a court order that has given him legal possession of all equipment related to KULF, sans the broadcast license itself. The Houston FCC agent has taken KULF off of the air, as for a period of over a month, 1090 remained on air both day and night, running 1,000 watts of dead air. Barring another broadcaster assuming control of the facility, and the Federal Communications Commission assigning the broadcast license for KULF to them, this facility will likely become deleted and the Bellville allocation lost.

References

  1. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Summer 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
  2. ↑ "KULF Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2010-02-13.

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