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KFYO (AM)
KFYO (790 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Lubbock, Texas. It airs a news/talk radio format and is owned by Townsquare Media. Its studios are on 82nd Street in southwest Lubbock.
KFYO transmits 5,000 watts daytime; to protect other stations on 790 kHz from interference, at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array. The transmitter is off Slide Road at 146th Street in Lubbock. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K236CP on 95.1 MHz in Lubbock.
Weekdays begin on KFYO with a 20-minute block of Texas-based news and agricultural reports hosted by Tony St. James from Agriculture Today. That's followed by Sunrise LBK with Tom Collins and Matt Crow. There is also a Lubbock-based talk show on weekdays in afternoon drive time, hosted by Chad Hasty and shared with other Townsquare talk stations in Texas. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated shows: The Michael Berry Show, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.
Weekends feature specialty shows on money, health, home repair, guns, cars, the law, food and drink. Syndicated weekend programs include The Kim Komando Show, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Gun Talk with Tom Gresham, The Ben Ferguson Show and Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham. Most hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio.
T. E. Kirksey, owner of the Kirksey Bros. Battery and Electric Company, established a radio station in Breckenridge. Its first broadcast was on September 6, 1927. It operated with only 15 watts on 1420 kilocycles. In early 1928, it was allowed to increase power to 100 watts.
On September 22, 1928, KFYO moved to Abilene. It continued to broadcast on 1420, upgrading to 250 watts by day and 100 watts at night. The station maintained studios in the Grace Hotel. 16-year-old Grant Turner, later an announcer for the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, joined the station when it moved to Abilene.
At times, KFYO has claimed a longer history, stretching back to an experimental station allegedly started by Kirksey in 1923, in Bentonville, Arkansas. However, no records show a station was licensed to Kirksey there. Bentonville's first radio station was KFVX, run by Ralph H. Porter in 1925 but closed the same year. There was an earlier and unrelated KFYO, which operated at Texarkana, Texas. KFYO Texarkana shut down in February 1927. A new KFYO Breckenridge received a construction permit from the federal government six months later.
In February 1932, Kirksey was approved to move KFYO to Lubbock on 1310 kHz. It used a site at 2312 5th Street, three blocks east of Texas Tech University. The station began broadcasting from Lubbock on April 23. Two years later, the station moved to new downtown studios and offices located at 914 Avenue J. Also in 1934, KFYO aired the first-ever radio broadcast of a Texas Tech football game. It then began broadcasting games regularly in 1935, holding the rights continuously through the 1993 season.
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KFYO (AM)
KFYO (790 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Lubbock, Texas. It airs a news/talk radio format and is owned by Townsquare Media. Its studios are on 82nd Street in southwest Lubbock.
KFYO transmits 5,000 watts daytime; to protect other stations on 790 kHz from interference, at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array. The transmitter is off Slide Road at 146th Street in Lubbock. Programming is also heard on 250-watt FM translator K236CP on 95.1 MHz in Lubbock.
Weekdays begin on KFYO with a 20-minute block of Texas-based news and agricultural reports hosted by Tony St. James from Agriculture Today. That's followed by Sunrise LBK with Tom Collins and Matt Crow. There is also a Lubbock-based talk show on weekdays in afternoon drive time, hosted by Chad Hasty and shared with other Townsquare talk stations in Texas. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated shows: The Michael Berry Show, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Mark Levin Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.
Weekends feature specialty shows on money, health, home repair, guns, cars, the law, food and drink. Syndicated weekend programs include The Kim Komando Show, The Weekend with Michael Brown, Gun Talk with Tom Gresham, The Ben Ferguson Show and Sunday Night with Bill Cunningham. Most hours begin with an update from ABC News Radio.
T. E. Kirksey, owner of the Kirksey Bros. Battery and Electric Company, established a radio station in Breckenridge. Its first broadcast was on September 6, 1927. It operated with only 15 watts on 1420 kilocycles. In early 1928, it was allowed to increase power to 100 watts.
On September 22, 1928, KFYO moved to Abilene. It continued to broadcast on 1420, upgrading to 250 watts by day and 100 watts at night. The station maintained studios in the Grace Hotel. 16-year-old Grant Turner, later an announcer for the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, joined the station when it moved to Abilene.
At times, KFYO has claimed a longer history, stretching back to an experimental station allegedly started by Kirksey in 1923, in Bentonville, Arkansas. However, no records show a station was licensed to Kirksey there. Bentonville's first radio station was KFVX, run by Ralph H. Porter in 1925 but closed the same year. There was an earlier and unrelated KFYO, which operated at Texarkana, Texas. KFYO Texarkana shut down in February 1927. A new KFYO Breckenridge received a construction permit from the federal government six months later.
In February 1932, Kirksey was approved to move KFYO to Lubbock on 1310 kHz. It used a site at 2312 5th Street, three blocks east of Texas Tech University. The station began broadcasting from Lubbock on April 23. Two years later, the station moved to new downtown studios and offices located at 914 Avenue J. Also in 1934, KFYO aired the first-ever radio broadcast of a Texas Tech football game. It then began broadcasting games regularly in 1935, holding the rights continuously through the 1993 season.
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