KLBJ (AM)

KLBJ (590 kHz) is a commercial AM Radio station licensed to Austin, Texas. It carries a News/Talk Radio format. KLBJ is owned by Emmis Communications of Indianapolis, Indiana but once was owned by the family of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and still carries his initials as its call letters. On October 30, 2009, 590 AM began simulcasting its programming on FM translator K259AJ 99.7 MHz. The station has studios along Interstate 35 in North Austin, and the transmitter site is located east of Austin near the Colorado River in unincorporated Travis County. KLBJ 590 operates at 5000 watts by day, 1000 watts by night.

Programming

KLBJ carries both local and nationally syndicated programs. Weekdays begin with an hour of news at 5 a.m., called Austin's Morning News. At 6 a.m., KLBJ airs The Todd and Don Show, a wake-up program of news, interviews and phone calls hosted by Todd Jeffries and Don Pryor. At 10 a.m., it's Mark Caesar and Charlie Hodge. At 11 a.m., KLBJ carries The Rush Limbaugh Show. KLBJ returns to local programming at 2 p.m. with Dale Dudley, followed at 3 p.m. by Jeff Ward and Ed Clemments. At 7 p.m., KLBJ goes back to syndicated shows, with Dana Loesch followed by Clyde Lewis at 9 p.m. Overnight it's Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and America in The Morning at 4 a.m.