KPXI

KPXI
City	Overton, Texas
Broadcast area	Tyler-Longview
Frequency	100.7 MHz
First air date	November 6, 1961 (license granted as 96.1 KIMP-FM Mount Pleasant, Texas)
Format	Silent
ERP	8,100 Watts
HAAT	174 meters (571 ft)
Class	C3
Facility ID	29916
Transmitter coordinates	type:city 32°09′7.00″N 95°03′27.00″W / 32.1519444°N 95.0575000°W
Callsign meaning	K P X-100 I (former station branding when in Mt. Pleasant)
Former callsigns	KIMP-FM
Owner	Wanda J. Hanszen and Jerry T. Hanszen (sale pending to Louisiana State University and A&M College) ; (Hanszen Broadcasting, Inc.)

KPXI (100.7 FM) is a terrestrial radio station, licensed to Overton, Texas, serving the Tyler-Longview area.

KPXI targets the Henderson-Rusk County area.

History

KPXI signed on November 6, 1961 as KIMP-FM in Mount Pleasant @ 96.1 MHz. KIMP-FM was the original FM sister to 960 KIMP. It moved to 100.7 MHz in the mid-1960s and changed call letters to KPXI in the early to mid-1970's. It carried a beautiful music/easy listening format until the mid-1980s, when it shifted to a gold-based AC format that began phasing out the older music and playing more uptempo songs.

By 1988, it went straight ahead CHR as "X-100". X-100 attempted to compete in the Tyler market with a signal that covered a large area of northeast Texas, but rarely showed significant numbers in Tyler due to its limited signal strength within the City.

In 1991, KPXI shifted back to an Adult Contemporary format, but flipped to country music by the end of the year. It ran various derivatives of country under the branding of "K-101" until it was moved to Overton and downgraded to a C3 signal in June 1999, so that co-channel KRJT 100.7 could relocate from Bowie to Highland Village as KLTY, which later changed calls to KWRD-FM, in order to rimshot the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. After briefly running a stand alone oldies format, KPXI was then simulcasted on the co-channel Highland Village licensed 100.7 MHz.

KPXI was owned by various members of the Ward family from its sign on in the early 1960s until it went into receivership in the 1990-91 timeframe. East Texas Broadcasting purchased it from the receiver and sold it to Sunburst, which owned other Tyler/Longview market stations at the time, when it began the process of moving KRJT into Dallas/Ft. Worth. Sunburst exited the radio business in 2000 and sold KPXI to Salem along with KLTY. Sunburst's other Tyler/Longview area stations were sold to Waller Broadcasting.

Jerry Hanszen purchased KPXI from Salem Media subsidiary Inspiration Media of Texas, LLC on June 3, 2009. In doing so, KPXI became the sister station to co-owned KWRD in Henderson, which Hanszen has purchased from former Tyler City Councilman Jerry Russell. KPXI would cease simulcasting co-channel KWRD-FM once the sale was consummated between the two parties, and launched a Classic Country format as "The Heartbeat of East Texas, KPXI 100.7 FM".

On September 12, 2018, a license transfer of the KPXI facility was granted by the Federal Communications Commission, from Hanszen Broadcasting to the Board of Directors at Louisiana State University and A&M College, after the two parties had reached a deal for L.S.U. to acquire the station. Neither sister station KWRD, nor its FM relay translator, was included in the sale.

On October 11, 2018, KPXI was taken silent, in preparation of the facility's acquisition by Louisiana State University. As a result of the sale of KPXI, now former sister station KWRD has returned to its heritage country format, along with its FM relay translator at 98.5 MHz, dropping NBC Sports Radio in the process. Consummation of the license transfer remains pending.

References

External links

AM1470 KWRD-Henderson

Query the FCC's FM station database for KPXI

Radio-Locator information on KPXI

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KPXI

Coordinates: 32°09′07″N 95°03′29″W / 32.152°N 95.058°W / 32.152; -95.058

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