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KFNC
KFNC (97.5 FM; "ESPN Houston") is a commercial radio station licensed to Mont Belvieu, Texas. KFNC is paired with a translator, K223CW, licensed to Houston. The facilities serve the Greater Houston and Golden Triangle areas of southeast Texas. The station is owned by David Gow, through licensee Gow Media, LLC, with studios and offices in Uptown Houston one block from The Galleria. KFNC is a network affiliate of ESPN Radio, carried late nights and weekends. Local sports shows are heard weekdays from 7 a.m. to midnight and on weekend mornings.
KFNC has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the highest permitted for non-grandfathered FM stations. The transmitter is off Route 124 in Anahuac, Texas. A 2,000 watt booster, KFNC-FM-1, had its transmitter off West Baker Road in Baytown, but has since been powered down, its license returned, and subsequently deleted.
On March 1, 1948, the station began broadcasting on 99.5 MHz as KRIC and continued on that frequency through the early 1950s.
Interference to Beaumont viewers trying to watch KGUL-TV in Galveston (now KHOU-TV in Houston), since its March 22, 1953 sign-on, caused the FCC to swap frequencies with this facility and one allocated to Lake Charles, Louisiana. That changed KRIC's operating frequency to 97.5 FM in order to alleviate the interference to KGUL-TV's signal. The Lake Charles 99.5 station continues to operate as well, and is currently country KNGT, having first signed on in November 1965 as KPLC.
The KRIC call sign was changed to KAYD several years later to match its then AM counterpart 1450 KAYC. As KAYD, 97.5 was the long-time FM country music outlet in the Golden Triangle, going by the branding "KD 97".
In December 2001, a new 2,000-foot tower was built near Winnie, Texas so that the station could target the more lucrative Houston radio market.
It was as at this point that the country format of "KD 97" was moved to KAYD-FM 101.7 as "KD101." Meanwhile, 97.5 began stunting, initially with Christmas music, and afterward, a week-long loop of airing empowerment-themed music and speeches from African-American artists and figures.
On January 3, 2002, the station officially began targeting the Houston market by flipping to an Urban Contemporary format as Power 97.5 under the temporary call letters KKTT but gave KRPW as its on-air identification. (The station was unable to get the call sign in time for the sign on and acquired the KRWP call letters several weeks later.) KRWP also continued to serve the Beaumont area, while primarily targeting Houston.
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KFNC
KFNC (97.5 FM; "ESPN Houston") is a commercial radio station licensed to Mont Belvieu, Texas. KFNC is paired with a translator, K223CW, licensed to Houston. The facilities serve the Greater Houston and Golden Triangle areas of southeast Texas. The station is owned by David Gow, through licensee Gow Media, LLC, with studios and offices in Uptown Houston one block from The Galleria. KFNC is a network affiliate of ESPN Radio, carried late nights and weekends. Local sports shows are heard weekdays from 7 a.m. to midnight and on weekend mornings.
KFNC has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the highest permitted for non-grandfathered FM stations. The transmitter is off Route 124 in Anahuac, Texas. A 2,000 watt booster, KFNC-FM-1, had its transmitter off West Baker Road in Baytown, but has since been powered down, its license returned, and subsequently deleted.
On March 1, 1948, the station began broadcasting on 99.5 MHz as KRIC and continued on that frequency through the early 1950s.
Interference to Beaumont viewers trying to watch KGUL-TV in Galveston (now KHOU-TV in Houston), since its March 22, 1953 sign-on, caused the FCC to swap frequencies with this facility and one allocated to Lake Charles, Louisiana. That changed KRIC's operating frequency to 97.5 FM in order to alleviate the interference to KGUL-TV's signal. The Lake Charles 99.5 station continues to operate as well, and is currently country KNGT, having first signed on in November 1965 as KPLC.
The KRIC call sign was changed to KAYD several years later to match its then AM counterpart 1450 KAYC. As KAYD, 97.5 was the long-time FM country music outlet in the Golden Triangle, going by the branding "KD 97".
In December 2001, a new 2,000-foot tower was built near Winnie, Texas so that the station could target the more lucrative Houston radio market.
It was as at this point that the country format of "KD 97" was moved to KAYD-FM 101.7 as "KD101." Meanwhile, 97.5 began stunting, initially with Christmas music, and afterward, a week-long loop of airing empowerment-themed music and speeches from African-American artists and figures.
On January 3, 2002, the station officially began targeting the Houston market by flipping to an Urban Contemporary format as Power 97.5 under the temporary call letters KKTT but gave KRPW as its on-air identification. (The station was unable to get the call sign in time for the sign on and acquired the KRWP call letters several weeks later.) KRWP also continued to serve the Beaumont area, while primarily targeting Houston.