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KELW (95.3 FM) and KGLY (91.3 FM) are a pair of terrestrial American radio stations, licensed to Gilmer and Tyler, Texas, United States, respectively, and broadcasting in a simulcast Contemporary worship music format as "Lift Worship". The stations serve the Tyler-Longview-Marshall area, and are owned by Encouragement Media Group.

Studio location for both stations are at 7695 Old Jacksonville Highway in southwest Tyler.

The station went on the air as KNIF on September 9, 1980, as "Nifty" 95 and was originally owned by Jack Daniels. It was sold to Rick Reynolds, changed calls to KAEZ on December 5, 1986, and became an Easy Listening station.

On September 17, 1990, the station changed its call sign to KLSQ, being changed to an adult contemporary station as "Q-95." In 1993, the station switched to oldies as a simulcast of KFRO and taking the KFRO-FM calls in the process, after being sold to J.R. Curtis Jr., son of longtime KFRO (AM) owner James R. Curtis Sr. KFRO-FM remained an oldies station, in its first run, for 10 years, even taking the format exclusively from the AM sister station as 1370 moved to sports programming.

In 1998, KFRO-FM relaunched its oldies format with a simulcast on KPXI 100.7, which had just been downgraded and moved from Mt. Pleasant to Overton. It also briefly changed calls to KCGL during this period, but was quickly aborted and returned to KFRO-FM on February 15, 1999.

In 2001, KFRO-FM, having dropped the simulcast with KPXI, reimaged as "95.3 The Frog."

In October 2003, KFRO-FM dropped the oldies format and moved into a simulcast of Regional Mexican KOYE 96.7, "K-Oye." At this time, both the stations reimaged as "La Super Invasora." This simulcast lasted only six months, with the oldies format and "The Frog" branding returning to 95.3 afterwards.

In Spring 2005, after being purchased by Dudley Waller's Waller Media, KFRO-FM switched to a simulcast of new sister station KLJT 102.3, launching a soft adult contemporary format as "95.3 & 102.3 The Breeze."

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