KPWJ

KPWJ
City Kurten, Texas
Broadcast area Bryan – College Station metropolitan area
Branding Peace 107.7
Frequency 107.7 FM MHz
First air date April 6, 2010 (as KKLB Madisonville)
Format Contemporary Christian Music
ERP 3,500 watts
HAAT 100 m (328 ft)
Class A
Facility ID 166036
Callsign meaning Know Peace With Jesus
Owner Bryan Broadcasting License Corporation
Webcast Listen Live
Website http://peace107.com/
KKEE
City Centerville, Texas
Broadcast area Madisonville, Buffalo
Branding Peace 101.3
Frequency 101.3 FM MHz
First air date January 11, 2017
Format Contemporary Christian Music
ERP 5,200 watts
HAAT 75.8 m (249 ft)
Class A
Facility ID 191507
Transmitter coordinates 31°14′36″N 95°58′40″W / 31.24333°N 95.97778°W / 31.24333; -95.97778
Owner Bryan Broadcasting License Corporation
Sister stations KNDE, WTAW, WTAW-FM, KWBC
Webcast Listen Live
Website http://peace107.com/

KPWJ and KKEE (107.7 FM, 101.3 FM) are a pair of radio stations airing a simulcasted Contemporary Christian Music format, licensed to Kurten, Texas, and Centerville, Texas respectively. The combined stations serve the Bryan – College Station metropolitan area as well as Madisonville, Buffalo, Jewett and points east of Bryan-College Station, and are owned by Bryan Broadcasting License Corporation. [1] The station's studios are located in College Station and the respective transmitters are in College Station and Centerville.

KPWJ was first proposed by Katherine Pyeatt as a Class A facility, operating at 101.3 MHz, with an ERP of 3.1 kilowatts, and an elevation of 141 meters height above average terrain, from a transmission site northwest of Madisonville. The facility was sold and the construction permit transferred to Robert Clint Crawford on December 30, 2009, under the licensee name of Southwest Radio Broadcasting.[2]

Crawford applied to change the facility's operating channel to the current 107.7, with a power increase to the full 6 kilowatts allowed for a Class A facility, from a tower site near Texas State Highway 90 in Madisonville. The modifications were granted by the FCC on February 19, 2010, and the facility received its first License to Cover at the new Madisonville site on April 6, 2010.

Bryan Broadcasting Corporation purchased KKLB on July 23, 2012. As a part of purchasing the facility, Bryan Broadcasting filed an application to move the facility from Madisonville to its current transmit site, requesting a change of COL to Kurten. A change of the callsign to its current KPWJ was granted on September 3, 2012, and the station was licensed to operate from the current site on January 15, 2013.

KKEE began broadcasting from its current site on January 11, 2017, simulcasting the "Peace" programming of sister station KPWJ, assuming the former frequency, and most of the coverage area of the original KKLB construction permit proposal.

References

  1. ↑ "KPWJ Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Accessed October 26, 2012
  2. ↑ Venta, Lance. Bryan/College Station Gets Peace Radio Insight. October 10, 2010. Accessed October 26, 2012

Coordinates: 30°37′12″N 96°15′13″W / 30.62000°N 96.25361°W / 30.62000; -96.25361


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