KHPT

KHPT (106.9 FM, "The Eagle") is a classic rock radio station licensed to Conroe, Texas. It is owned by Cox Media Group and is part of the Houston cluster that includes KGLK, KKBQ, and KTHT. It is headquartered in Suite 2300 at 3 Post Oak Central in the Uptown district in Houston, Texas, United States. Its transmitter is located in Splendora, Texas, and is shared with KSBJ.

The station simulcasts 107.5 KGLK to reach the parts of the Houston metro where 107.5 is weak. Between the two frequencies, the Eagle covers more square miles than any station in southeast Texas.

History

The station signed on to service Conroe on February 14, 1965 with the call letters KNRO. Over time, the call letters have been changed 6 times. It was a religious station for many years, having been owned by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries with its 600 foot tower in Grangerland and licensed as KJOJ-FM. It was sold in the early 1990s after the fall of Jimmy Swaggart in a sex scandal. US Radio, a company owned by Philadelphia lawyer Ragan Henry, owned 106.9 through the early 1990s, until the financing balloon bank note for US Radio's 49 stations across the country became due and Henry was forced to sell his empire with 106.9 being sold to Salem Communications in 1995. During this time, 106.9 (under the KJZS and KKHU callsigns) moved to a 1200 foot tower west of Cleveland and just north of state highway 105, with plans to build a 2000 foot tower near Splendora to cover more of the Houston market.