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KLBJ (AM)
KLBJ (590 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Austin, Texas, airing a news/talk radio format. It is owned by Sinclair Telecable Inc. and operates under the name Waterloo Media. It is Central Texas' primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.
The station has studios and offices along Interstate 35 in Austin. Its transmitter site is off North Farm to Market Road 973 in Travis County, near the Colorado River. By day, KLBJ operates with 5,000 watts non-directional. To protect other stations on 590 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts and uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. It also simulcasts its programming on FM translator station K259AJ at 99.7 MHz.
Weekdays on KLBJ start with The Todd and Oz Show, a local news and interview program with Todd Jeffries and Patrick Osborn. In the afternoon drive time, another local program, The Mark and Melynda Show is heard, featuring Mark Caesar and Melynda Brant. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated programs: Brian Kilmeade and Friends, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Will Cain Show, Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and America in The Morning with John Trout.
Weekends feature shows on financial advice, real estate, health, cars, gardening, and food, some of which are paid brokered programming. Syndicated weekend programming includes The Kim Komando Show, Rich DeMuro on Tech, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell and The Weekend News with Gordon Deal. One of its weekend shows, Retire Smart Austin, also airs on Thursday evenings. Fox News Radio supplies hourly updates. KLBJ has a local news-sharing agreement with the Fox TV Network's KTBC Channel 7, its former sister station.
The station first signed on the air on August 1, 1939. The original call sign was KTBC, standing for the Texas Broadcasting Company. It originally broadcast on 1150 kilocycles, with 1,000 watts.
The station was restricted to daytimer status, required to go off the air at night. It also had to share 1150 AM with WTAW, which was owned by the A&M College of Texas in College Station. The two stations had to work out a schedule where only one of them could broadcast while the other was silent.
KTBC was acquired by the family of future President Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1943, the future First Lady, known as Lady Bird Johnson, invested an inheritance of $17,500 to purchase KTBC. She hired new on-air talent, found commercial sponsors, kept all the financial accounts, and maintained the facility. Using her formal name, Mrs. Claudia T. Johnson served as manager, and then as chairman of what later came to be known as KLBJ for some four decades. In later years, the president and Lady Bird's children ran the media company.
Although Mrs. Johnson was the owner in papers filed with the Federal Communications Commission, then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson used his influence with the FCC to permit KTBC to relocate to AM 590, increasing its coverage area and broadcasting around the clock with nighttime authorization. With its new fulltime status and stronger signal, KTBC became a CBS Radio Network affiliate. It carried the CBS schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio."
KLBJ (AM)
KLBJ (590 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Austin, Texas, airing a news/talk radio format. It is owned by Sinclair Telecable Inc. and operates under the name Waterloo Media. It is Central Texas' primary entry point station for the Emergency Alert System.
The station has studios and offices along Interstate 35 in Austin. Its transmitter site is off North Farm to Market Road 973 in Travis County, near the Colorado River. By day, KLBJ operates with 5,000 watts non-directional. To protect other stations on 590 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts and uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. It also simulcasts its programming on FM translator station K259AJ at 99.7 MHz.
Weekdays on KLBJ start with The Todd and Oz Show, a local news and interview program with Todd Jeffries and Patrick Osborn. In the afternoon drive time, another local program, The Mark and Melynda Show is heard, featuring Mark Caesar and Melynda Brant. The rest of the weekday schedule is nationally syndicated programs: Brian Kilmeade and Friends, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Will Cain Show, Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and America in The Morning with John Trout.
Weekends feature shows on financial advice, real estate, health, cars, gardening, and food, some of which are paid brokered programming. Syndicated weekend programming includes The Kim Komando Show, Rich DeMuro on Tech, Somewhere in Time with Art Bell and The Weekend News with Gordon Deal. One of its weekend shows, Retire Smart Austin, also airs on Thursday evenings. Fox News Radio supplies hourly updates. KLBJ has a local news-sharing agreement with the Fox TV Network's KTBC Channel 7, its former sister station.
The station first signed on the air on August 1, 1939. The original call sign was KTBC, standing for the Texas Broadcasting Company. It originally broadcast on 1150 kilocycles, with 1,000 watts.
The station was restricted to daytimer status, required to go off the air at night. It also had to share 1150 AM with WTAW, which was owned by the A&M College of Texas in College Station. The two stations had to work out a schedule where only one of them could broadcast while the other was silent.
KTBC was acquired by the family of future President Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1943, the future First Lady, known as Lady Bird Johnson, invested an inheritance of $17,500 to purchase KTBC. She hired new on-air talent, found commercial sponsors, kept all the financial accounts, and maintained the facility. Using her formal name, Mrs. Claudia T. Johnson served as manager, and then as chairman of what later came to be known as KLBJ for some four decades. In later years, the president and Lady Bird's children ran the media company.
Although Mrs. Johnson was the owner in papers filed with the Federal Communications Commission, then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson used his influence with the FCC to permit KTBC to relocate to AM 590, increasing its coverage area and broadcasting around the clock with nighttime authorization. With its new fulltime status and stronger signal, KTBC became a CBS Radio Network affiliate. It carried the CBS schedule of dramas, comedies, news, sports, soap operas, game shows and big band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio."