KAWA (FM)
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Broadcast area | Denton/McKinney/Fort Worth/Gainesville/
WAY-FM Network |
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History | |
First air date | 1999 |
Former call signs | KBJV (1998–1999) KTPW (1999–2004) KVRK (2004–2015) |
Call sign meaning | WAy-FM |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 76285 |
Class | C |
ERP | 95,000 watts |
HAAT | 572 meters (1,877 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 33°33′37″N 96°57′34″W / 33.56028°N 96.95944°W |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | wayfm.com vidaunida.com |
KAWA (89.7
History
After a two-year stay in Florida, Eldred and Raye Nell Thomas returned to the Dallas area and decided to start a Christian radio station. Through other business interests, Mr. Thomas learned of KVTT, now KKXT, an existing station that operated as an extension of Elkins Institute, a broadcasting training facility. With retirement looming, Bill Elkins, the founder and president of the Elkins Institute, wanted to find someone to continue with the station he had operated since 1950. In March 1976, Mr. Thomas became the president of Research Educational Foundation, Inc. and General Manager of KVTT. (Eldred and Raye Nell Thomas are now both deceased and KVTT's FM 91.7 frequency was sold to local public broadcaster KERA in 2009.)
In 1994, KVTT applied to the
It took over four years for the application to be processed and granted by the FCC. On January 18, 1999, a license was granted to broadcast at 14,000 watts as KTPW and transmit from a tower north of the
In 2004 REF Inc. released its responsibility to KVTT and became responsible only for Power FM. The KVRK call letters were established on June 14, 2004. Power FM also had a TV show on
As of late September 2016, KAWA holds a construction permit to increase power from 14,000 to 45,000 watts and an application to further increase to 90,000 watts.
Signal
Unlike most of the area's FM stations like competitor KLTY, which transmit their signals from Cedar Hill, KAWA transmits its signal from an area West of Collinsville. Therefore, KAWA's signal is much stronger in the Northern parts of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex including Dallas, Denton, and McKinney as well as the cities of Decatur, Gainesville, Sherman, and Bonham, to as far North as Ardmore and Durant, Oklahoma, but is considerably weaker in Fort Worth and areas south of Dallas.
References
- ^ "Lighthouse 21 on IMDB". IMDB. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ Weinberg, Tessa (2015-05-14). "Report: Power 89.7 FM soon to become "Way-FM"". star-telegram. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- ^ "FCC Call Sign Query". FCC Call Sign Query. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
- ^ 5 Things Dallas and Fort Worth Need to Know About WAY-FM (accessed December 2, 2015)
- ^ Power FM (accessed December 2, 2015)
External links
- Power FM (station's former website)
- KAWA in the FCC FM station database
- KAWA in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- 89.7 WAY-FM Facebook Page
- Power FM Facebook Page
- JCTV
- DFW Radio/TV History
- Lighthouse 21 on IMDB