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KVDT
KVDT (103.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Allen, Texas, and serving the greater Dallas–Fort Worth market. It is owned by VCY America and it airs a Christian radio format. Most programming comes from radio studios at VCY America's headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. KVDT schedules Christian talk and teaching shows in the daytime, while Christian music is heard at night. SRN News provides hourly news updates.
KVDT has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 98,000 watts. The transmitter site is on FM 902 southeast of Collinsville, Texas, in Grayson County. The signal covers the northern parts of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and North Texas as well as Southern Oklahoma.
The station first signed on the air on December 1, 1981. The call sign was KEMM. From 1981-2000, the station was licensed to Commerce, Texas, broadcasting at 92.1 MHz with a country music format.
In 2000, KEMM was acquired by ABC/Disney. It went silent on September 28, 2000. This was in preparation of a move to the more lucrative Dallas market, to become the home for ESPN Radio programming.
The city of license was switched to Allen and the transmitter was relocated to Collinsville in 2001. The station was re-launched on April 27, 2001, as 103.3 KESN with a new sports radio format. Fourteen outlying stations were rearranged and relocated to make way for KESN to move into DFW, all at ABC/Disney's expense. Among KESN's most notable local programs was Galloway and Company, hosted by Randy Galloway until his retirement in October 2013.
Despite different owners and a merger of ABC Radio into Citadel Broadcasting, KESN, WBAP, and WFAA-TV maintained a strong partnership (as WFAA is the local ABC television affiliate). In early 2006, 103.3 ESPN welcomed WFAA-TV personality Dale Hansen, a former Dallas Cowboys radio analyst and host on rival station KTCK, to the station. KTCK had become the Cowboys' flagship station, and many speculated that Hansen leaving KTCK for KESN was due to his criticism of the team. The official explanation, however, was that Hansen's ratings did not justify his salary request.
Beginning in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, KESN and KZMP acquired the rights to broadcast all Texas Rangers baseball games for the next four years. English-language broadcasts aired on KESN while the Spanish-language broadcasts were heard on KZMP. These broadcasts were in addition to the Dallas Mavericks broadcasts that were already heard on KESN. Rangers games remained on KESN until the 2015 season, when they returned to KRLD-FM.
Until mid-2011, KESN broadcast in HD Radio, with its HD2 signal simulcasting KZMP (ESPN Deportes Radio) and its HD3 substation broadcasting an audio simulcast of ESPNews. The HD broadcasts were later discontinued. Because the license to broadcast digital HD Radio is perpetual, the station could resume digital broadcasts at any time.
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KVDT
KVDT (103.3 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to Allen, Texas, and serving the greater Dallas–Fort Worth market. It is owned by VCY America and it airs a Christian radio format. Most programming comes from radio studios at VCY America's headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. KVDT schedules Christian talk and teaching shows in the daytime, while Christian music is heard at night. SRN News provides hourly news updates.
KVDT has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 98,000 watts. The transmitter site is on FM 902 southeast of Collinsville, Texas, in Grayson County. The signal covers the northern parts of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and North Texas as well as Southern Oklahoma.
The station first signed on the air on December 1, 1981. The call sign was KEMM. From 1981-2000, the station was licensed to Commerce, Texas, broadcasting at 92.1 MHz with a country music format.
In 2000, KEMM was acquired by ABC/Disney. It went silent on September 28, 2000. This was in preparation of a move to the more lucrative Dallas market, to become the home for ESPN Radio programming.
The city of license was switched to Allen and the transmitter was relocated to Collinsville in 2001. The station was re-launched on April 27, 2001, as 103.3 KESN with a new sports radio format. Fourteen outlying stations were rearranged and relocated to make way for KESN to move into DFW, all at ABC/Disney's expense. Among KESN's most notable local programs was Galloway and Company, hosted by Randy Galloway until his retirement in October 2013.
Despite different owners and a merger of ABC Radio into Citadel Broadcasting, KESN, WBAP, and WFAA-TV maintained a strong partnership (as WFAA is the local ABC television affiliate). In early 2006, 103.3 ESPN welcomed WFAA-TV personality Dale Hansen, a former Dallas Cowboys radio analyst and host on rival station KTCK, to the station. KTCK had become the Cowboys' flagship station, and many speculated that Hansen leaving KTCK for KESN was due to his criticism of the team. The official explanation, however, was that Hansen's ratings did not justify his salary request.
Beginning in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, KESN and KZMP acquired the rights to broadcast all Texas Rangers baseball games for the next four years. English-language broadcasts aired on KESN while the Spanish-language broadcasts were heard on KZMP. These broadcasts were in addition to the Dallas Mavericks broadcasts that were already heard on KESN. Rangers games remained on KESN until the 2015 season, when they returned to KRLD-FM.
Until mid-2011, KESN broadcast in HD Radio, with its HD2 signal simulcasting KZMP (ESPN Deportes Radio) and its HD3 substation broadcasting an audio simulcast of ESPNews. The HD broadcasts were later discontinued. Because the license to broadcast digital HD Radio is perpetual, the station could resume digital broadcasts at any time.