KLBJ (AM)
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Frequency | 590 kHz |
Branding | News Radio KLBJ |
Programming | |
Format | News/Talk |
Network | Fox News Radio |
Affiliations | |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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KBPA, KGSR, KLBJ-FM, KLZT, KROX-FM | |
History | |
First air date | July 2, 1939 | (as KTBC)
Former call signs | KTBC (1939-1973) |
Call sign meaning | Lyndon Baines Johnson (The Johnson family once owned the station.) |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 65791 |
Class | B |
Power | 5,000 watts days 1,000 watts nights |
Translator(s) | 99.7 K259AJ (Austin) |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | www |
KLBJ (590
The station has studios and offices along Interstate 35 in Austin. Its transmitter site is off North Farm to Market Road 973 in Travis County, near the Colorado River.[1] By day, KLBJ operates with 5,000 watts non-directional. To protect other stations on 590 AM from interference, at night it reduces power to 1,000 watts and uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array. It also simulcasts its programming on FM translator station K259AJ at 99.7 MHz.
Programming
Weekdays on KLBJ start with The Todd and Oz Show, a local news and interview program with Todd Jeffries and Patrick Osborn. In the afternoon
Weekends feature shows on financial advice, real estate, health, cars, gardening, and food, some of which are paid
History
Early years as KTBC
The station first
KTBC was a
Johnson family ownership
KTBC was acquired by the family of future
Although Mrs. Johnson was the owner in papers filed with the
The Johnson family put Austin's first TV station on the air in 1952, Channel 7 KTBC-TV. The co-owned station 93.7 KTBC-FM (now KLBJ-FM) signed on the air in 1960. In the 1950s, as network programming moved to television, 590 KTBC began playing middle of the road (MOR) and easy listening music, while still airing CBS News on the hour.
Selling the TV and radio stations
In 1973, the Johnson family sold KTBC-TV to the Times Mirror Company, a newspaper and broadcasting company that published the Los Angeles Times and the Dallas Times Herald. Channel 7 kept the KTBC call sign.[6] Today KTBC is owned by Fox Television Stations. The radio stations' call letters were changed to KLBJ and KLBJ-FM, to match the initials of former President Johnson, who had died earlier that year.[7] The AM station continued its format of MOR music with news, talk, and sports. The year before, the FM station had switched to a progressive rock sound.
In 1997, KLBJ-AM-FM came under the ownership of the LBJS Corporation.[8] The new company was a merger of LBJ Broadcasting, which by this point also owned KAJZ, with Sinclair Telecable's two stations in the market: KROX-FM and KGSR.[9] 590 KLBJ had already shifted from MOR music to an all-talk format. 93.7 KLBJ-FM continued its album-oriented rock format.
At the time, Sinclair Telecable Inc. was a minority stakeholder in the stations, with LBJ Holdings Co. as the 51-percent controlling stakeholder. In 2003, the
On October 30, 2009, 590 AM began simulcasting its programming on FM translator station K259AJ at 99.7 MHz. That gave listeners in Austin and its adjacent suburbs the opportunity to hear KLBJ's programming on FM.
In June 2019, Emmis announced that it would sell its controlling stake in the Austin cluster back to Sinclair Telecable for $39.3 million. KLBJ-AM-FM operates under the licensee name "Waterloo Media".[10]
Translators
Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | HAAT |
Class | FCC info |
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K259AJ | 99.7 MHz FM | Austin, Texas | 82261 | 250 | 252 m (827 ft) | D | LMS |
References
- ^ Radio-Locator.com/KLBJ-AM
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1942 p. 178.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1944, p. 154.
- ^ ISBN 0-679-73371-X.
- ^ Russell, Jan Jarboe (March 1998). "Luci in the Sky". Texas Monthly.
- ^ "Lady Bird Johnson Biography :: National First Ladies' Library". Retrieved November 26, 2022.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1974 p. B-201.
- ^ Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 1999, p. D-422.
- ^ Bertin, Michael. "Two Schools of Thought". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved July 9, 2023.
- ^ a b "Emmis Exits Austin Market With Sale To Sinclair Telecable". Insideradio.com. June 10, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
- Austin Business Journal. July 2, 2003. Retrieved July 9, 2023.
External links
- Official website
- KLBJ in the FCC AM station database
- KLBJ in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- K259AJ in the FCC FM station database
- K259AJ at FCCdata.org
- FCC History Cards for KLBJ