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KROI
KROI (92.1 FM) is a radio station serving the Greater Houston market. It is licensed to Seabrook, Texas and owned by the Spanish Broadcasting System. The station's studios are located in Greenway Plaza and the transmitter is based near Rosharon in unincorporated Brazoria County.
The station began as a Top 40 station upon its launch in 1983, but later shifted to beautiful music in 1984, and then classical music in 1986, before its acquisition by Radio One in 2004. Following a short-lived regional Mexican format, KROI became an urban contemporary gospel station in 2006. In October 2011, KROI flipped to an all-news radio format; however, by October 2014, plagued by poor ratings and large financial losses, Radio One flipped KROI to Boom 92—a format focusing on classic hip-hop music. That format also proved to be unsuccessful in the long run, which resulted in another format change back to top 40 in January 2017. In May 2021, the urban gospel programming (which had been broadcasting on KMJQ-HD2 since 2011) returned to KROI. In March 2023, it was reported that Urban One would acquire the Houston radio stations owned by Cox Media Group; to comply with Federal Communications Commissions ownership limits, Urban One would concurrently place KROI into a temporary station trust. The transfer was finalized on August 1, 2023, and the station was divested to the Spanish Broadcasting System for $7.5 million on December 20, 2024, upon which the station reverted to a regional Mexican format.
The very first radio station in the Houston area on the 92.1 frequency was KREL-FM, sister station of KREL AM 1360 in Baytown. KREL-FM signed on in April 1949, and simulcast its sister station for its entire existence. With FM radio failing to grow in popularity in the early 50s, KREL-FM was taken off the air in November 1953. The 92.1 frequency would remain unoccupied for the next thirty years.
The current 92.1 FM frequency signed on the air April 23, 1984 with a satellite-delivered adult contemporary format from Transtar. Within weeks, former KRBE programmer Clay Gish was hired as Program Director, and on June 1 he changed the station to a live contemporary hit radio format as KZRQ "Z92". The station, which was only a 1,400-watt at 300-foot Class A, took heavy shots against its CHR neighbor on the dial, KKBQ-FM "93FM" (which is a 100,000-watt Class C at 2,000 feet) and even had a song parody of then hit, Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" called "Zoobusters" that poked fun of KKBQ-FM's Q-Zoo morning show. The station also claimed to be the first station to play CDs and the world's first all-digital station.
Z92, with its limited signal, was unable to make a dent against KKBQ, and barely showed up in the ratings, with a 0.3 share compared to KKBQ's 9.2 in the Fall 1984 Arbitron survey. On February 25, 1985, KZRQ flipped to a beautiful music format with the KYND callsign (ironically, KKBQ-FM's previous incarnation). On April 2, 1986, KYND flipped to classical music, first as KLEF, and then later KRTS. The change occurred to fill the void when KLEF (94.5 FM) flipped from classical to adult contemporary as KJYY. Due to the station's transmitter being located further away from Houston, the station simulcasted on KRTK for a time. KRTS finally got upgrades in the 1980s, to a C2 (500 feet and 50,000 watts) at the intersection of US 59 and Texas 288 and then finally as a Class C1 (100,000 watts at 1,000 feet) in the 1990s. It currently is a C1 license (though at lower ERP) on the 2,000-foot Liverpool tower, close to KGLK's tower.
Radio One purchased KRTS in September 2004, changed its calls to KROI, and flipped the station, first to a two-week long hot adult contemporary format as simply "92.1 KROI" on September 15, and then to regional Mexican as "La Mera Mera" on September 29. When that was unsuccessful, its owners, which mainly specialize in urban contemporary radio formatted station ownership (with a majority African-American listener base), flipped it one more time to an urban contemporary gospel format branded as "Praise 92.1" at 6:45 pm on July 17, 2006. The first song on "Praise" was Why We Sing by Kirk Franklin & The Family. KROI was the flagship of the nationally syndicated Yolanda Adams Morning Show, which debuted March 2007. Outside of that, it was mainly jockless throughout the day except for several specialized programs on the weekends.
On October 28, 2011, Radio One announced that KROI would flip to an all-news format, starting November 17. This is the first time Radio One has programmed an all-news station geared towards a mainstream audience. Houston, the 6th largest radio market in the United States, according to Arbitron, has been underserved in regards to radio news, as KTRH and KPRC, well known for news coverage in past decades, have become predominantly talk radio oriented in recent years. The Praise 92 gospel format, as well as the station's status as the flagship of the Yolanda Adams Morning Show, moved over to the HD2 subchannel of KMJQ and to its online website.
On November 18, at 9 a.m., following the Yolanda Adams Morning Show (and after playing "Clean Inside" by Hezekiah Walker), KROI began stunting with construction sounds in preparation of its switch to all-news, with slogans such as "100% News, 0% Spin", "Reporting Houston 24/7", "Just give us 20 minutes each day for the next 20 days". There were also liners promoting that News 92 would launch soon during the stunt. The new format officially launched at 5 am on November 21. On-air talent included former radio and TV personalities from KTRH, KSEV, KPRC-TV, KLOL, KRBE, KIAH and KRIV, most already fairly well-known to the Houston audience (additionally, afternoon traffic reporter Robert Washington, who served in a similar role some years back for KTRH, was a DJ under the gospel music format). The new format operated as an affiliate of ABC News Radio (which was picked up by KTRH in 2016) and featured ABC News reports at the top and bottom of each hour. It also aired syndicated programs, such as The Jim Bohannon Show on weeknights and The John Batchelor Show on weekend evenings; weather and traffic updates were delivered "on the 9s". On Sundays, simulcasts of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and NBC's Meet the Press were featured.
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KROI
KROI (92.1 FM) is a radio station serving the Greater Houston market. It is licensed to Seabrook, Texas and owned by the Spanish Broadcasting System. The station's studios are located in Greenway Plaza and the transmitter is based near Rosharon in unincorporated Brazoria County.
The station began as a Top 40 station upon its launch in 1983, but later shifted to beautiful music in 1984, and then classical music in 1986, before its acquisition by Radio One in 2004. Following a short-lived regional Mexican format, KROI became an urban contemporary gospel station in 2006. In October 2011, KROI flipped to an all-news radio format; however, by October 2014, plagued by poor ratings and large financial losses, Radio One flipped KROI to Boom 92—a format focusing on classic hip-hop music. That format also proved to be unsuccessful in the long run, which resulted in another format change back to top 40 in January 2017. In May 2021, the urban gospel programming (which had been broadcasting on KMJQ-HD2 since 2011) returned to KROI. In March 2023, it was reported that Urban One would acquire the Houston radio stations owned by Cox Media Group; to comply with Federal Communications Commissions ownership limits, Urban One would concurrently place KROI into a temporary station trust. The transfer was finalized on August 1, 2023, and the station was divested to the Spanish Broadcasting System for $7.5 million on December 20, 2024, upon which the station reverted to a regional Mexican format.
The very first radio station in the Houston area on the 92.1 frequency was KREL-FM, sister station of KREL AM 1360 in Baytown. KREL-FM signed on in April 1949, and simulcast its sister station for its entire existence. With FM radio failing to grow in popularity in the early 50s, KREL-FM was taken off the air in November 1953. The 92.1 frequency would remain unoccupied for the next thirty years.
The current 92.1 FM frequency signed on the air April 23, 1984 with a satellite-delivered adult contemporary format from Transtar. Within weeks, former KRBE programmer Clay Gish was hired as Program Director, and on June 1 he changed the station to a live contemporary hit radio format as KZRQ "Z92". The station, which was only a 1,400-watt at 300-foot Class A, took heavy shots against its CHR neighbor on the dial, KKBQ-FM "93FM" (which is a 100,000-watt Class C at 2,000 feet) and even had a song parody of then hit, Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" called "Zoobusters" that poked fun of KKBQ-FM's Q-Zoo morning show. The station also claimed to be the first station to play CDs and the world's first all-digital station.
Z92, with its limited signal, was unable to make a dent against KKBQ, and barely showed up in the ratings, with a 0.3 share compared to KKBQ's 9.2 in the Fall 1984 Arbitron survey. On February 25, 1985, KZRQ flipped to a beautiful music format with the KYND callsign (ironically, KKBQ-FM's previous incarnation). On April 2, 1986, KYND flipped to classical music, first as KLEF, and then later KRTS. The change occurred to fill the void when KLEF (94.5 FM) flipped from classical to adult contemporary as KJYY. Due to the station's transmitter being located further away from Houston, the station simulcasted on KRTK for a time. KRTS finally got upgrades in the 1980s, to a C2 (500 feet and 50,000 watts) at the intersection of US 59 and Texas 288 and then finally as a Class C1 (100,000 watts at 1,000 feet) in the 1990s. It currently is a C1 license (though at lower ERP) on the 2,000-foot Liverpool tower, close to KGLK's tower.
Radio One purchased KRTS in September 2004, changed its calls to KROI, and flipped the station, first to a two-week long hot adult contemporary format as simply "92.1 KROI" on September 15, and then to regional Mexican as "La Mera Mera" on September 29. When that was unsuccessful, its owners, which mainly specialize in urban contemporary radio formatted station ownership (with a majority African-American listener base), flipped it one more time to an urban contemporary gospel format branded as "Praise 92.1" at 6:45 pm on July 17, 2006. The first song on "Praise" was Why We Sing by Kirk Franklin & The Family. KROI was the flagship of the nationally syndicated Yolanda Adams Morning Show, which debuted March 2007. Outside of that, it was mainly jockless throughout the day except for several specialized programs on the weekends.
On October 28, 2011, Radio One announced that KROI would flip to an all-news format, starting November 17. This is the first time Radio One has programmed an all-news station geared towards a mainstream audience. Houston, the 6th largest radio market in the United States, according to Arbitron, has been underserved in regards to radio news, as KTRH and KPRC, well known for news coverage in past decades, have become predominantly talk radio oriented in recent years. The Praise 92 gospel format, as well as the station's status as the flagship of the Yolanda Adams Morning Show, moved over to the HD2 subchannel of KMJQ and to its online website.
On November 18, at 9 a.m., following the Yolanda Adams Morning Show (and after playing "Clean Inside" by Hezekiah Walker), KROI began stunting with construction sounds in preparation of its switch to all-news, with slogans such as "100% News, 0% Spin", "Reporting Houston 24/7", "Just give us 20 minutes each day for the next 20 days". There were also liners promoting that News 92 would launch soon during the stunt. The new format officially launched at 5 am on November 21. On-air talent included former radio and TV personalities from KTRH, KSEV, KPRC-TV, KLOL, KRBE, KIAH and KRIV, most already fairly well-known to the Houston audience (additionally, afternoon traffic reporter Robert Washington, who served in a similar role some years back for KTRH, was a DJ under the gospel music format). The new format operated as an affiliate of ABC News Radio (which was picked up by KTRH in 2016) and featured ABC News reports at the top and bottom of each hour. It also aired syndicated programs, such as The Jim Bohannon Show on weeknights and The John Batchelor Show on weekend evenings; weather and traffic updates were delivered "on the 9s". On Sundays, simulcasts of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and NBC's Meet the Press were featured.