| City of license | Longview, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Longview-Marshall, Texas |
| Slogan | East Texas Best Country |
| Frequency | 105.7 MHz |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 456 meters (1,496 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 54844 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°35′37″N 94°49′10″W / 32.59361°N 94.81944°W |
| Affiliations | Fox News Radio |
| Owner | Access.1 Texas License Company LLC |
| Website | kykx.com |
KYKX (105.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Longview, Texas, USA, the station serves the Longview-Marshall area. The station is currently owned by Access.1 Texas License Company LLC and features programing from Fox News Radio.[1]. The current studio location of KYKX is at 4408 North US Highway 259 in Longview. KYKX shares studio space with sister stations KFRO (AM), KCUL (AM), and KCUL-FM.
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Sister stations [link]
KYKX is owned by Access.1 of New York, its East Texas sister stations are 1410 KCUL (AM) Marshall, 92.3 KCUL-FM Marshall, 104.1 KKUS Tyler, 1370 KFRO (AM) Longview, 96.7 KOYE Frankston, and 106.5 KOOI Jacksonville.
History [link]
105.7 signed on the air in 1951 as KLTI-FM, it's initial power was 6.2 kW. 105.7's sister station was KLTI 1280. It was founded and owned by LeTourneau Institute (hence the call letters KLTI). 105.7 transmitted from the tower at Signal Hill across from LeTourneau Industries. The tower was designed and built by LeTourneau, it was designed to look like a small Eifel Tower. The studios for both 105.7 and 1280 were at the Signal Hill facility. 105.7's studios remained there even until Rusty Reynolds owned the station and it changed to KYKX.
1280 and 105.7 became KLUE-AM/FM, and was bought by H.A. Tony Bridge's Radio Longview, Inc. KLUE-FM was not a simulcast of KLUE 1280, and most likely had an automated easy listening format, with stacks of records repeating every day.
In 1967, KLUE-FM upgraded their power to 36 kW.
In 1969, the calls were changed to KHER-FM.
On July 1, 1974, KHER-FM was sold to Rusty Reynolds' and Dick Osborne's Stereo 105 Inc., the calls were changed to KYKX, and the country music format began, and has maintained the format to the present. Rusty eventually moved the transmitter to West Mountain at 100KW, and was upgraded to a "Class C". The studios were moved to Judson Road.
On November 1, 1985, KYKX was sold to Radio Sungroup of Texas, Inc. During Sungroup's ownership, The KYKX transmitter site was moved to the corner of SH 300 and 1844
On July 23, 1998, KYKX was sold to Sunburst Media
On October 18, 2000, KYKX was sold to Waller Media.
On January 7, 2005, KYKX was sold to its current owner, Access.1 Texas License Company LLC.
References [link]
- ^ "KYKX Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. https://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=KYKX.
- "Big East Texas Personality Passed Away". KTBB. November 21, 2011. https://www.ktbb.com/post/?p=143224. Retrieved November 21, 2011. "Long time East Texas disc jockey and comedian Warren Bradley died Sunday morning after a long fight with cancer, according to friends. Bradley, 55, was a staple on the morning show on radio station KYKX for years."
External links [link]
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KYKX
- Radio-Locator information on KYKX
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KYKX
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