KTYS
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WBAP-FM is a commercial radio station licensed to serve the community of Flower Mound, Texas
. WBAP-FM, established in 1967 as KDSQ, is managed locally at 2221 East Lamar Blvd., Suite 300 - Arlington, Texas
76006 and is currently owned by Cumulus Media
. As of March 15, 2010, the station broadcasts a news
/talk radio
format to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
area as a simulcast
of sister station
WBAP (820 AM
). With the simulcast in place, the station, along with its AM sister station and KSCS, is responsible for activation of the North Texas
Emergency Alert System
when hazardous weather alerts
, disaster area
declarations, and AMBER Alert
s are issued.
in the Sherman
-Denison
area on frequency 101.7 FM. Two years later, it changed its callsign to KSHN. Up until 1975, the format was unknown, then the call letters changed to KIKM-FM with a country music
format during the day and Top 40 at night (simulcast from sister station KIKM), then to full time Top 40 a couple years later. In 1983, the call sign
changed to KZXL-FM, but two years later the previous call sign was re-established with a 24-hour country music format known as "Kick'm Country".
A decade later, KIKM-FM swapped frequencies with KDVE (also in Sherman), however the station went dark
in 1997. During that time, the city of license was changed from Sherman to its current location in Flower Mound, Texas
.
/ABC Radio. After launching on November 23, 1998, as Memories 96.7 FM, playing oldies
and easy listening
music from the 1950s to the 1970s, it changed call sign
s to KMEO on December 28, 1998. During the overnight hours, KMEO would switch to a live "Memories"/"Unforgettable Favorites"
(now merged with "Timeless
") programming from ABC Radio. Previously live, local programming was briefly replaced by ABC Radio's corporate "Memories" satellite programming for a full 24 hours on June 26, 2003, until 5pm on June 27, 2003 when the "Memories" format was dropped.
. This was followed by the first song on the "Twister", being "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" by Alan Jackson
. This was the start of 20,000 songs in a row without commercial interruption. Initially jockless, The Twister started adding DJs in September 2003. Its playlist was composed of "today's modern country hits" mixed with Texas country music, thus adopting the slogan "The Most New Country In Texas". The call letters were not officially changed to KTYS until October 21, 2003. On June 12, 2007, 24 Disney/ABC Radio stations including KTYS merged into Citadel Broadcasting
's portfolio. The KMEO
call letters have been reassigned to an American Family Radio
-affiliate station in Mertzon, Texas
.
followed by the first song of the new 96.7 being "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles
. From there, it broadcast a diverse oldies
format, as the playlist was taken directly from the remnants of the former ABC Radio's corporate "Memories" music library, thus their slogan was "Forgotten Hits Re-Discovered.". It also marked a return of a few former "Memories" personalities with Ron Chapman as the station's consultant. The callsign was changed to KPMZ on July 2, 2008 (referring to a PlatinuM record
and paying homage to "Memories 96.7"). The "Texas Twister" format was moved to its sister station
KSCS's HD-2 signal. KPMZ ceased transmitting its digital "HD" signal in 2009.
" by Steam
. Two hours later, a stunt
known as "Reagan Radio" began, exclusively featuring sound clips from former president Ronald Reagan
. The station began simulcasting sister station WBAP on Monday, March 15 reducing the number of formats in the DFW area by one. Although broadcasting on a rimshot frequency
, the staff at WBAP claims that this station will provide "crystal-clear FM fidelity" for their listeners in 96.7's pre-determined coverage area. The station changed call signs to WBAP-FM effective March 19, 2010. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.
Flower Mound, Texas
Flower Mound is a town in Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas, and a suburb of Fort Worth and Dallas. Its population was 50,702 at the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 census, and 64,669 at the 2010 Census. The town derives its name from the prominent mound located in the southern...
. WBAP-FM, established in 1967 as KDSQ, is managed locally at 2221 East Lamar Blvd., Suite 300 - Arlington, Texas
Arlington, Texas
Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...
76006 and is currently owned by Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media, Inc. is the second largest Owner and Operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States, behind Clear Channel Communications, operating 570 stations in 150 markets as of September 16, 2011. The company also owns Cumulus Media Networks...
. As of March 15, 2010, the station broadcasts a news
All-news radio
All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcast of news.All-news radio is available in both local and syndicated forms, and is carried in some form on both major US satellite radio networks...
/talk radio
Talk radio
Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
format to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a title designated by the U.S. Census as of 2003, encompasses 12 counties within the U.S. state of Texas. The area is divided into two metropolitan divisions: Dallas–Plano–Irving and Fort Worth–Arlington. Residents of the area...
area as a simulcast
Simulcast
Simulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
of sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
WBAP (820 AM
AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. AM was the first method of impressing sound on a radio signal and is still widely used today. Commercial and public AM broadcasting is carried out in the medium wave band world wide, and on long wave and short wave...
). With the simulcast in place, the station, along with its AM sister station and KSCS, is responsible for activation of the North Texas
North Texas
North Texas is a distinct cultural and geographic area forming the central-northeastern section of the U.S. state of Texas. North Texas is generally considered to include the area south of Oklahoma, east of Abilene, and north of Waco...
Emergency Alert System
Emergency Alert System
The Emergency Alert System is a national warning system in the United States put into place on January 1, 1997, when it superseded the Emergency Broadcast System , which itself had superseded the CONELRAD System...
when hazardous weather alerts
Severe weather terminology (United States)
This article describes the United States National Weather Service severe weather terminology. The NWS defines precise meanings for nearly all its weather terms. This article describes NWS terminology and related NWS weather scales...
, disaster area
Disaster area
A disaster area is a region or a locale heavily damaged by either natural hazards, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, technological hazards including nuclear and radiation accidents, or sociological hazards like riots, terrorism or war. The population living there often...
declarations, and AMBER Alert
AMBER Alert
An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency is a child abduction alert bulletin in several countries throughout the world, issued upon the suspected abduction of a child, since 1996...
s are issued.
KDSQ/KSHN/Kick'm Country
The station first started out as KDSQ in 19671967 in radio
The year 1967 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history.-Events:*Fall: St. Louis radio station KSHE flips from female-oriented rock to progressive rock, becoming the first progressive rock radio station in the US....
in the Sherman
Sherman, Texas
Sherman is a city in and the county seat of Grayson County, Texas, United States. The city's estimated population as of 2009 was 38,407. It is also one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
-Denison
Denison, Texas
Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, United States. The population was 22,773 at the 2000 census; it is estimated to have grown to 24,127 in 2009. Denison is one of two principal cities in the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...
area on frequency 101.7 FM. Two years later, it changed its callsign to KSHN. Up until 1975, the format was unknown, then the call letters changed to KIKM-FM with a country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
format during the day and Top 40 at night (simulcast from sister station KIKM), then to full time Top 40 a couple years later. In 1983, the call sign
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...
changed to KZXL-FM, but two years later the previous call sign was re-established with a 24-hour country music format known as "Kick'm Country".
A decade later, KIKM-FM swapped frequencies with KDVE (also in Sherman), however the station went dark
Dark (broadcasting)
In the broadcasting industry, dark is a term used to describe a radio station or television station that has gone off-the-air for an indefinite period of time, or as defined by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission , a "silent" station...
in 1997. During that time, the city of license was changed from Sherman to its current location in Flower Mound, Texas
Flower Mound, Texas
Flower Mound is a town in Denton and Tarrant counties in the U.S. state of Texas, and a suburb of Fort Worth and Dallas. Its population was 50,702 at the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 census, and 64,669 at the 2010 Census. The town derives its name from the prominent mound located in the southern...
.
Memories 96.7 FM
A couple months later, the KNKI call letters were established, but the station did not sign on until November 1998, under the control of DisneyThe Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
/ABC Radio. After launching on November 23, 1998, as Memories 96.7 FM, playing oldies
Oldies
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
and easy listening
Easy listening
Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...
music from the 1950s to the 1970s, it changed call sign
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...
s to KMEO on December 28, 1998. During the overnight hours, KMEO would switch to a live "Memories"/"Unforgettable Favorites"
Unforgettable Favorites
Unforgettable Favorites was a satellite driven format distributed by ABC Radio Networks...
(now merged with "Timeless
Timeless (radio network)
Timeless was a 24-hour satellite music service of Citadel Media . It has distributed a mix of soft oldies and adult standards to radio stations around the USA...
") programming from ABC Radio. Previously live, local programming was briefly replaced by ABC Radio's corporate "Memories" satellite programming for a full 24 hours on June 26, 2003, until 5pm on June 27, 2003 when the "Memories" format was dropped.
96.7 The Texas Twister
96.7 The Twister (alternately "The Texas Twister") officially "touched-down" at 5 pm on June 27, 2003. The last song heard on "Memories" was "Thanks For The Memories" by Bob HopeBob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
. This was followed by the first song on the "Twister", being "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" by Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...
. This was the start of 20,000 songs in a row without commercial interruption. Initially jockless, The Twister started adding DJs in September 2003. Its playlist was composed of "today's modern country hits" mixed with Texas country music, thus adopting the slogan "The Most New Country In Texas". The call letters were not officially changed to KTYS until October 21, 2003. On June 12, 2007, 24 Disney/ABC Radio stations including KTYS merged into Citadel Broadcasting
Citadel Broadcasting
Citadel Broadcasting Corporation was a Las Vegas, Nevada-based broadcast holding company. Citadel owned 243 radio stations across the United States and was the third-largest radio station owner in the country...
's portfolio. The KMEO
KMEO
KMEO is an FM radio station that serves the San Angelo, Texas area. It is part of the American Family Radio network.The current callsign was resurrected after Disney/ABC Radio -owned KMEO in Flower Mound, Texas dropped its Memories 96.7 programming in 2003 for country music as KTYS...
call letters have been reassigned to an American Family Radio
American Family Radio
American Family Radio is a network of more than 180 radio stations broadcasting Christian-oriented programming to over 40 states.-Overview:AFR was launched by Rev...
-affiliate station in Mertzon, Texas
Mertzon, Texas
Mertzon is a city in and the county seat of Irion County, Texas, United States. The population was 839 at the 2000 census. It is part of the San Angelo, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Mertzon is located at ....
.
Platinum 96.7
On June 30, 2008 at 5:28 am, after five years as The Twister the station ended its tenure as a country station in favor of returning to Oldies as Platinum 96.7. The last song on The Twister being "Kiss My Country Ass" by Rhett AkinsRhett Akins
Thomas Rhett Akins Sr. is an American country singer and songwriter. Signed to Decca Records between 1994 and 1997, he released two albums for the label , followed by 1998's What Livin's All About on MCA Nashville. Friday Night in Dixie was released in 2002 on Audium Entertainment...
followed by the first song of the new 96.7 being "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
. From there, it broadcast a diverse oldies
Oldies
Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
format, as the playlist was taken directly from the remnants of the former ABC Radio's corporate "Memories" music library, thus their slogan was "Forgotten Hits Re-Discovered.". It also marked a return of a few former "Memories" personalities with Ron Chapman as the station's consultant. The callsign was changed to KPMZ on July 2, 2008 (referring to a PlatinuM record
Music recording sales certification
Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
and paying homage to "Memories 96.7"). The "Texas Twister" format was moved to its sister station
Sister station
In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership....
KSCS's HD-2 signal. KPMZ ceased transmitting its digital "HD" signal in 2009.
WBAP simulcast
At noon CT on March 12, 2010, after a run of almost two years as "Platinum", the station briefly reverted back to its previous "Texas Twister" country music format. Platinum 96.7's last song was "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him GoodbyeNa Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" is a song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then-fictitious band they named "Steam". It was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969,...
" by Steam
Steam (band)
Steam was a pop-rock music group best known for the 1969 number one hit song and perennial favorite "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye." The song was written and recorded by studio musicians Garrett DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, and producer/writer Paul Leka at Mercury Records studios in New York City...
. Two hours later, a stunt
Stunting (broadcasting)
In radio broadcasting, stunting occurs when a station abruptly airs programming that is seemingly uncharacteristic compared to what they normally play...
known as "Reagan Radio" began, exclusively featuring sound clips from former president Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
. The station began simulcasting sister station WBAP on Monday, March 15 reducing the number of formats in the DFW area by one. Although broadcasting on a rimshot frequency
Rimshot (broadcasting)
A rimshot is a radio and television broadcasting term for a station that attempts to reach a larger media market from a distant suburban, exurban, or even rural location. The term is primarily used with FM stations, and mainly in North America...
, the staff at WBAP claims that this station will provide "crystal-clear FM fidelity" for their listeners in 96.7's pre-determined coverage area. The station changed call signs to WBAP-FM effective March 19, 2010. Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, 2011.
Former on-air staff
- John LaBella: morning host 1998–2002 (deceased)
- Charles "Chaz" Mixon: 1999–2004 (most recently with KKHJ-FMKKHJ-FM-External links:*...
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) - Becky Wight: DJ & "Memories Scrapbook" host 1998–2003
- Randy Fuller: 1998–2003
- Mike Young: 1998–2003
- Bob Lawrence: 1998–2003
- Susan Edwards: 1998–2003
- Sammi Gonzales: 1998–2003
- Tori Logan: 1998–2003
- Pamela Steele: 1998–2003
- Bob Eliot: 1998–2003
- Tyler Cox: 1998-2003, 2008–2010
- Vic Thomas: 1998-2003 (via satellite), 2008–2010
- Blake Barret: nighttime host 2004–2005, now morning show host for Radio DisneyRadio DisneyRadio Disney is a radio network based in Burbank, California and headquartered out of the Disney Channel headquarters on West Alameda Ave., from where it has been based since November 2008. Prior to that, the network was based in Dallas, Texas...
nationwide. - Carletta Blake: nighttime host 2008
- Scott Gaines: midday & nighttime host 2003–2006
- Hondo: overnight host & weekends; host of Club Twister 2006–2008
- Lorri Leigh: nighttime host 2006–2008
- Angie Michaels: nighttime Host 2008-2009
- Allan Peck: afternoon host 2003–2008, now morning show producer on The Big 96.3 KSCS
- Crash Poteet: morning host 2004–2008
- Jeremy Robinson: midday & nighttime host 2005–2008
- Wendy Westbrook: afternoon host 2008-2009