KDXX
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| History | |
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First air date | 1992 (as KPXG) |
Former call signs | KPXG (1992-1994) KECS(1994-1998) KDOS (1998-2002) KDXX-FM (1/2002-6/2002) KDXX (2002-2003) KESS-FM (2003-2013) KFZO (2013-2016) |
Call sign meaning | Dallas/Fort Worth's "Latino Mix" |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 57376 |
| Class | C1 |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 299 meters (980 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 33°19′42.4″N 97°03′57.4″W / 33.328444°N 97.065944°W |
| Links | |
| Webcast | Listen live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | www |
KDXX (107.9
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History
Early years
The current version of 107.9 was made possible when Marcos A. Rodriguez successfully obtained a new class C2 licensed to Gainesville, Texas, and purchased 107.9, a Class C licensed to Corsicana, Texas. After Rodriguez sold to Heftel Broadcasting and Mac Tichenor gained control of HBC, Tichenor moved the Corsicana signal south to the Waco market (as the new class A6 in Robinson, Texas, called KHCK-FM) and allowed the Gainesville signal to upgrade and move into Dallas as a class C1 in Lewisville, Texas.
The upgrade project had been started under the Cecil Heftel version of HBC, and completed by the engineers at Tichenor Media/HBC working under David Stewart (now owner of an upgrade consultancy, Moving Target Consulting Works). The call letters changed a few times through KDXX and KESS-FM.
107.9 La Kalle
On February 19, 2009, the regional Mexican station branded as "La Que Buena" was moved from KESS-FM to 107.1 FM (KDXX) and 99.1 FM (KFZO). The reggaeton-formatted station and the "La Kalle" (Spanish for "The Street") branding were then moved to KESS-FM and shortly after, the format was retooled to Latin pop.
The KESS call letters were first used in D/FW in the spring of 1976 when Marcos Rodriguez Sr. father of Marcos A. Rodriguez gained control of a country station, KBUY-FM, on 93.9 FM. That station changed to 94.1 when it moved its transmitter to Cedar Hill, Texas, in order to avoid a spacing problem with another Dallas station.
In late 2011, the "La Kalle" format has been dissolved and replaced with a simulcast of its sister station KDXX, reducing the number of formats by one in DFW's market. It was in competition with CBS Radio's Spanish rhythmic AC station KMVK Mega 107.5 prior to the recent format change.
Top 40/rhythmic era
On June 28, 2012, KESS flipped to bilingual
On May 9, 2013, Univision announced that KESS would rebrand to "Hot 107.9" as it shifts directions to a more conventional rhythmic top 40 presentation, in part due to an increase in the ratings since phasing out the Spanish music and content.
107.9 today
On July 29, 2013, Univision pulled the plug on KESS' rhythmic format after two months without a word of a format change announcement, making it not only the shortest-ran rhythmic station in the metroplex, but one of the shortest-ran format periods for both the rhythmic format and radio history, and leaving said metro area without such a format once again. It is replaced by KFZO's regional Mexican format after KFZO (now KESS-FM) became a simulcast of sister station Spanish top 40 sister KDXX. The shuffling was done in response to KMVK's shift from Spanish contemporary to regional Mexican and to protect KLNO, which KMVK will be competing against.[4]
On August 9, 2013 KESS-FM swapped call letters with KFZO.
Sometime in early 2014, KFZO (alongside other Univision-owned stations) has dropped their "La Jefa" branding in favor of using its frequency as its ident. However, it has brought back the previous branding in late 2015.
On February 17, 2016, Univision has swapped call signs and formats on this station and 99.1 once again, marking the return of the KDXX call letters on this particular frequency after 13 years. A day later, 107.9 simulcast from KESS-FM "Latino Mix".[5]
Aside from nightly and weekend mix shows, KDXX's specialty programming includes select sporting events in Spanish. Starting in 2024, KDXX airs annual Dallas Stars National Hockey League games in March as part of the team's Hispanic Heritage Night--something hosted on then-sister TUDN Radio station KFLC (1270 AM) for 2 years prior to its sale to Latino Media Network.[6]
KDXX HD Radio programming
KDXX broadcasts in
Sometime in early 2022, KDXX launched a third digital subchannel (HD3) to simulcast Spanish sports station KFLC TUDN Radio 1270 AM. This simulcast has ceased operations beginning in 2024 a few months after KFLC's new owner Latino Media Network took over full operations.
Signal
Unlike most of the area's FM stations like sister KLNO, which transmit their signals from
, but is considerably weaker in southern parts of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex pointing south.References
- ^ Radio-Locator.com
- ^ "Univision Launches “Radio H2O” 107.9 Dallas" from Radio Insight (June 28, 2012)
- ^ "H2O Dallas To Get Hot?" from Radio Insight (May 9, 2013)
- ^ Univision Shuffles Dallas Signals from Radio Insight (July 29, 2013)
- ^ La Jefa On The Move In Dallas - RadioInsight (published February 17, 2016)
- ^ Stars to host Hispanic Heritage Night on Tuesday, March 12 - NHL/Dallas Stars (published March 5, 2024)
- ^ http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=10 Archived 2015-11-23 at the Wayback Machine HD Radio Guide for Dallas-Ft. Worth
- ^ Hot 107.9 Dallas (Accessed June 30, 2013)
- ^ Hot 107.9 FM - iHeartRadio Streaming Page (Accessed June 30, 2013)
External links
- Official website
- KDXX in the FCC FM station database
- KDXX in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
- DFW Radio Archives
- DFW Radio/TV History
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