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KBDT (1160 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Highland Park, Texas, and serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by Charles Kim, through licensee Pacific Star Media LLC. It broadcasts an Asian format.
By day, KBDT is powered at 35,000 watts. Because KBDT broadcasts on a United States clear-channel frequency, it must reduce power at night to 1,000 watts to avoid interfering with the dominant station on 1160 AM, Class A KSL Salt Lake City. KBDT uses a directional antenna at all times, employing separate six-tower array transmitter sites for daytime and nighttime operations. The daytime transmitter is off County Road 3250 in Paradise, Texas, while the nighttime site is on Huffines Boulevard in Lewisville.
The station's first FCC license was granted 6-29-1960. The station was formerly on 1150 kHz as KVIL, owned by University Broadcasting. The original location of the studios was in the Highland Park Village Shopping Center (hence the VIL call letters). The address was 4152 Mockingbird Lane at Preston Road, overlooking the Dallas Country Club golf course. At first, KVIL was a daytimer, powered at only 500 watts and required to sign-off at night. It got a power boost to 1,000 watts a short time later, but was still restricted to daytime-only operation.
In 1961, FM sister station KVIL-FM officially signed on. In a large city like Dallas, the FCC would discourage AM and FM stations from simulcasting. However, due to KVIL's daytimer status, as well as the station's city of license being Highland Park, KVIL and KVIL-FM were able run the same programming for all the hours the AM station was on the air. In the 1960s, KVIL-AM-FM played Top 40 hits. By the 1970s, the music became more adult-oriented, while the disc jockeys and station formatics remained youthful and contemporary.
KVIL-AM-FM was a highly rated hot adult contemporary station in the Dallas-Fort Worth radio market for much of the late 1970s and 1980s, often finishing at #1 in the Arbitron ratings. While the FM station had most of the listeners, KVIL was available to people who did not have FM radios in their cars or offices and wanted to hear the station on AM.
In 1987, Infinity Broadcasting bought KVIL-AM-FM from Sconnix Broadcasting. The sale price was $82 million, the largest amount of money in radio history for an AM-FM combo up to that date. Sconnix had acquired KVIL-AM-FM only the month before in an eight-station deal. Infinity president Mel Karmazin said his company wanted a station in Dallas and "the best there is KVIL." Infinity later was folded into CBS Radio.
AM 1150 adopted the call sign KVIX and programmed a separate AC format from KVIL-FM for a short time after the sale to Infinity. Since nearly all listeners had FM radios by the 1990s, Infinity decided to sell the AM station.
In October 1996, the station was sold to Marcos A. Rodriguez, who was its owner until August 2003. Rodriguez used it to carry foreign language programs as KDMM. Due to the popular Pakistani and Indian music and talk programs, KDMM became all-South Asian formatted. Initially, the station was allowed 1,000 watts daytime only with a six tower directional array located on the western edge of the L.B Houston Golf Course, a City of Dallas public property, abutting the eastern bank of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, just south of Royal Lane. The ground lease agreement with the city of Dallas allowed for broadcast radio operations for $1 and for a period not to exceed 100 years. The lease stipulated that, If radio broadcasting ceased for a period of six months or longer, the land lease would be terminated and the land usage rights would revert back to the city and golf course.
KBDT
KBDT (1160 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Highland Park, Texas, and serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is owned by Charles Kim, through licensee Pacific Star Media LLC. It broadcasts an Asian format.
By day, KBDT is powered at 35,000 watts. Because KBDT broadcasts on a United States clear-channel frequency, it must reduce power at night to 1,000 watts to avoid interfering with the dominant station on 1160 AM, Class A KSL Salt Lake City. KBDT uses a directional antenna at all times, employing separate six-tower array transmitter sites for daytime and nighttime operations. The daytime transmitter is off County Road 3250 in Paradise, Texas, while the nighttime site is on Huffines Boulevard in Lewisville.
The station's first FCC license was granted 6-29-1960. The station was formerly on 1150 kHz as KVIL, owned by University Broadcasting. The original location of the studios was in the Highland Park Village Shopping Center (hence the VIL call letters). The address was 4152 Mockingbird Lane at Preston Road, overlooking the Dallas Country Club golf course. At first, KVIL was a daytimer, powered at only 500 watts and required to sign-off at night. It got a power boost to 1,000 watts a short time later, but was still restricted to daytime-only operation.
In 1961, FM sister station KVIL-FM officially signed on. In a large city like Dallas, the FCC would discourage AM and FM stations from simulcasting. However, due to KVIL's daytimer status, as well as the station's city of license being Highland Park, KVIL and KVIL-FM were able run the same programming for all the hours the AM station was on the air. In the 1960s, KVIL-AM-FM played Top 40 hits. By the 1970s, the music became more adult-oriented, while the disc jockeys and station formatics remained youthful and contemporary.
KVIL-AM-FM was a highly rated hot adult contemporary station in the Dallas-Fort Worth radio market for much of the late 1970s and 1980s, often finishing at #1 in the Arbitron ratings. While the FM station had most of the listeners, KVIL was available to people who did not have FM radios in their cars or offices and wanted to hear the station on AM.
In 1987, Infinity Broadcasting bought KVIL-AM-FM from Sconnix Broadcasting. The sale price was $82 million, the largest amount of money in radio history for an AM-FM combo up to that date. Sconnix had acquired KVIL-AM-FM only the month before in an eight-station deal. Infinity president Mel Karmazin said his company wanted a station in Dallas and "the best there is KVIL." Infinity later was folded into CBS Radio.
AM 1150 adopted the call sign KVIX and programmed a separate AC format from KVIL-FM for a short time after the sale to Infinity. Since nearly all listeners had FM radios by the 1990s, Infinity decided to sell the AM station.
In October 1996, the station was sold to Marcos A. Rodriguez, who was its owner until August 2003. Rodriguez used it to carry foreign language programs as KDMM. Due to the popular Pakistani and Indian music and talk programs, KDMM became all-South Asian formatted. Initially, the station was allowed 1,000 watts daytime only with a six tower directional array located on the western edge of the L.B Houston Golf Course, a City of Dallas public property, abutting the eastern bank of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, just south of Royal Lane. The ground lease agreement with the city of Dallas allowed for broadcast radio operations for $1 and for a period not to exceed 100 years. The lease stipulated that, If radio broadcasting ceased for a period of six months or longer, the land lease would be terminated and the land usage rights would revert back to the city and golf course.