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KTJK-FM/HD1, 106.3 The Raider
File:KTJK HD2 logo.png
Broadcast areaAbilene, Texas
Frequency106.3 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding106.3 The Raider
Programming
FormatVariety hits
SubchannelsHD2: Rhythmic top 40 "Infinity FM"
HD3: Sports [[[KWKC]] simulcast)
AffiliationsRetro Pop Reunion, KTXS-News, AccuWeather
Ownership
Owner
  • WesTex Communications
  • (WesTex Telco, LLC)
KKHR, KWKC, KZQQ
History
First air date
October 6, 1989 (1989-10-06)
Former call signs
  • KHXS (1989–1998)
  • KFQX-FM (1998–1999)
  • KKHR-FM (1999-2023)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID64056
ClassC2
ERP50,000 watts
HAAT56 meters (184 ft)
Transmitter coordinates
32°25′14.00″N 99°43′54.00″W / 32.4205556°N 99.7316667°W / 32.4205556; -99.7316667 (KTJK)
Links
Public license information
WebcastListen Live
HD2: Listen Live
Websitewww.theraiderabilene.com
HD2: www.infinityfmradio.com
HD3: www.foxsportsabilene.com

KTJK-FM/HD1 (106.3FM "The Raider") is a regional variety hits radio station licensed to Abilene, Texas and serving the surrounding area.

Current Programming

106.3 The Raider brands itself as "Your Ultimate Variety" and is the only true variety hits station currently broadcasting in the Abilene/Sweetwater market. Operations Manager, Program Director, and midday host Dustin Tatro curates the playlist that features pop and rock from solid gold 60s oldies to brand new releases. The playlist features a new music category commonly featuring such artists as The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, Shinedown, Pop Evil, and new releases from the stations core artists from the 80s and 90s decades. The daily "Touch of Gold" noon feature looks in depth at the stories behind songs and artists that built rock and roll from the ground up in the 1950s and early to mid 1960s, often played live on vinyl records.

"Retro Pop Reunion" with Joe Cortez airs Sunday afternoons; an 80s at 8 segment features "Absolutely 80s with Nina Blackwood" weekday mornings.

The Raider is the broadcast home for Wylie Bulldog football.

KTJK is held by local community ownership and is operated by local staff.

Branding

The station's identity as "106.3 The Raider" is a direct reference to the presence of Dyess Air Force Base in the local community.[2] The United States Air Force has announced Dyess AFB as one of the operational bases of the under-development US heavy bomber, the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider.

History

On February 18, 1988, a construction permit was granted to SURE Broadcasting, owned by Susan Lundborg, for a new 3,000-watt radio station on 106.3 MHz in Abilene. A classic country format under the name "Kicks 106" and the call letters KHXS were selected, and the station rented space on the tower of KACU.[3] The station began at 1:06 p.m. on October 6, 1989.[4]

In 1991, KHXS switched to a Spanish-language format of Tejano music.[5] The station's management and airstaff came from KKHR (98.1 FM), which simultaneously converted to oldies.[6] This new format lasted less than 18 months; the same core group moved on August 1, 1992, to KEYJ (1560 AM) because the station was not making enough money for its owner.[7] After nearly two months, businessman Dave Boyll became the new operator, adopting an easy listening format.[8] Most of the songs the station played were from Boyll's own collection.[9]

In November 1992, just as KHXS's easy listening format got underway, Sure Broadcasting declared bankruptcy, and its stations were transferred to a receiver. After nearly four years, the receiver found a buyer: Larry Hickerson, whose IQ Radio owned WPIQ in Brunswick, Georgia.[10] The transaction forced Boyll to move his easy listening programming to daytime hours on KYYD (1340 AM),[9] a sports radio station that Boyll had begun leasing in January 1995.[11] Hickerson, for his part, already had a contract in hand to sell KHXS to another Abilene radio station owner.[12]

After the easy listening programming moved out, Taylor County Broadcasting—a related company to the owners of KBCY and KCDD—began leasing the frequency from Hickerson and operated it with a conservative talk format, "The Talk of the Town at 106.3", with nationally syndicated hosts including Don Imus, Rush Limbaugh, and Laura Schlessinger.[13] This lasted just seven months, and in August, it was replaced with classic rock as "The Bear".[14] That November, Cumulus Media—which simultaneously purchased KBCY and KCDD—acquired KHXS by exercising a purchase option with Hickerson.[15]

Cumulus also took over KFQX-FM 102.7 and switched the formats of the two stations in 1998, with 106.3 inheriting the contemporary hits "Fox FM" that had been revived on the 102.7 frequency the year prior.[16] It then traded with Powell Meredith Communications Company, which owned KKHR at 98.1; a format and call sign swap resulted, bringing the Spanish-language music programming of KKHR to the 106.3 frequency. Powell Meredith not only brought over KKHR's music to the frequency, it also brought a running dispute with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Since 1995, the station had not paid for an ASCAP license, and it played ASCAP-registered songs under a de facto license that expired at the end of 2000. From 2001 to 2003, ASCAP contacted Powell Meredith five times and advised them not to play its songs without a license; the owners of the station rebuffed proposals to settle the dispute. In October 2002 and again in July 2003, ASCAP sent an agent to Abilene to record the station's broadcasts. An ASCAP-employed musician confirmed that the station had aired eight compositions represented by the performing rights society without permission, such as Santana's version of "Oye Como Va" and Juan Gabriel's "Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez" (I Forgot Again). In 2005, a court awarded $8,000 in statutory damages to ASCAP and the rightsholders of the compositions.[17]

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Former logo

Canfin Enterprises, a company owned by Parker Cannan, purchased KKHR in late 2004 for $684,000.[18] In 2022, Canfin Enterprises reached a deal to sell its Abilene radio cluster to WesTex Telco, LLC, owner of KTJK (101.7 FM).[19] On November 7, 2022, KKHR began stunting, promising "something new" and a "Great Flip" for a new format to debut on November 10; on that date, KKHR relaunched as "My 106.3", continuing to air Spanish-language hit music in a bilingual presentation.[20]

At midnight, August 1, 2023, the station began simulcasting on sister KKHR 106.3FM in preparation of a swap to that frequency, replacing the hispanic music format previously on KKHR.

On August 8, 2023, the FCC approved a swap of callsigns, placing the KTJK-FM calls and The Raider format permanently on 106.3FM. The KKHR calls were then assigned to 101.7FM, KTJK's former frequency.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTJK-FM/HD1, 106.3 The Raider". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Jaklewicz, Greg (2020-07-01). "What the Abilene Reporter-News liked and disliked: Those stepping up". Abilene Reporter-News. Retrieved 2021-08-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Bruce, Bob; Lemon, Mary Ann (August 22, 1989). "New country-western radio station opening". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. 5C. Archived from the original on October 16, 2021. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
  4. ^ Bruce, Bob; Lemon, Mary Ann (October 3, 1989). "'Kicks-106' goes on air at 1:06 p.m. Oct. 6". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. 6C.
  5. ^ Bruce, Bob; Kirk, Scott (March 20, 1991). "KHXS switches from country". p. 8A. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  6. ^ Jaklewicz, Greg (March 22, 1991). "Local ears get a rest, but more ahead". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. 2D. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  7. ^ Jaklewicz, Greg (August 7, 1992). "Garth echo; Tejano travels". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. 8D. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  8. ^ Jaklewicz, Greg (October 2, 1992). "Easy-listening, Top 40 formats debut". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. 3C. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  9. ^ a b Whitaker, Bill (November 11, 1996). "Radio station official determined to keep 'taking it easy'". Abilene Reporter-News. p. 1B. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  10. ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. September 30, 1996. p. 45. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  11. ^ Williamson, Doug (January 20, 1995). "CD 103, SportsRadio 1340 change hands, keep same formats". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. 5B. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  12. ^ Williamson, Doug (November 17, 1996). "Radio dialing for $$$". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. 1E, 2E. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  13. ^ Williamson, Doug (January 22, 1997). "News-talk radio returns to Abilene airwaves". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. 3E. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  14. ^ Jaklewicz, Greg (August 29, 1992). "KHXS: Talk radio gives way to classic rock". The Abilene Reporter-News. p. Weekend 9. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  15. ^ "Cumulus Adds Ann Arbor Quartet, Abilene Trio" (PDF). Radio & Records. November 21, 1997. p. 8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-09-28. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
  16. ^ Moore, Rob (July 25, 1999). "Radio Days: Abilene makes its mark on the airwaves". The Abilene Reporter-News. pp. 1B, 2B. Archived from the original on October 16, 2021. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
  17. ^ Metered Music, Inc. v. Powell Meredith Communications Co., 1:04-CV-015-C, 3 (N.D. Tex. March 2, 2005), Text.
  18. ^ "Deals". Broadcasting & Cable. December 5, 2004. Archived from the original on October 17, 2021. Retrieved October 17, 2021.
  19. ^ Venta, Lance (June 28, 2022). "WesTex Telco Acquires Abilene Trio". RadioInsight. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
  20. ^ Venta, Lance (November 11, 2022). "My 106.3 Debuts in Abilene". RadioInsight.

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