KRMD-FM

KRMD-FM
City Oil City, Louisiana
Broadcast area Shreveport-Bossier City
Branding Country 101.1 KRMD
Slogan "Continuous Country"
Frequency 101.1 MHz
First air date 1948
Format Country
ERP 100,000 watts
HAAT 345.7 meters (1135 feet)
Class C0
Facility ID 1304
Transmitter coordinates 32°41′08″N 93°56′00″W / 32.68556°N 93.93333°W / 32.68556; -93.93333
Callsign meaning Robert M. Dean (original owner)
Owner Cumulus Media
(Cumulus Licensing LLC)
Sister stations KRMD (AM), KMJJ, KQHN, KVMA-FM
Webcast Listen Live
Website krmd.com

KRMD-FM (101.1 FM, "Country 101.1 FM") is a contemporary country music formatted radio station licensed to Oil City, Louisiana, United States, and serving the Shreveport-Bossier City Metropolitan Area. The station is owned by Cumulus Media and based at the Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City, with a transmitter based in Mooringsport (with an auxiliary backup transmitter outside downtown Shreveport).

Former studio locations include the Jefferson Building (near downtown Shreveport), the Alexander Avenue building (near Centenary College), and presently the Louisiana Boardwalk in Bossier City.

The Jefferson Building also housed the 25kW transmitter and 110 foot tower (HAAT), but winds from a bad storm toppled the tower directly on top of the building.

Another studio was located near the Centenary Gold Dome near Kings Highway with Smokey Hyde as a family-owned radio station. The station was sold or exchanged hands to many different companies over a five-year period, including AM FM Radio, Capstar, Gulf Star, Pacific Star, and Jacor. Clear Channel then sold off to Cumulus Media. During the Jacor/Clear Channel nationwide strategy to buy any and all stations available in the early 2000s, it was ruled by the FCC that Clear Channel could not acquire more than 50 percent of the Shreveport market share and had to sell off the old AM/FM stations, which included KRMD 101.1, KRMD 1340 AM, KVMA 107.9 FM (now 102.9) and KMJJ 99.7 FM.

The studio moved to the Louisiana Boardwalk in 2005 when construction of the boardwalk was near completion. Lightning had plagued the Alexander Avenue building and equipment many times. The boardwalk move with Cumulus Media made the stations and studios completely digital, with new equipment making it a new modern showcase studio.

Engineers CJ Jones, Gary, Kline, Gary Zocolo, Dave Supplee, James Kester, Hal Stinnett and Jasen Bragg designed and built the studios at the Louisiana Boardwalk above the New Orleans Style Copeland's Cheesecake Bistro.

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