KRWR

KRWR
City Tyler, Texas
Broadcast area Tyler-Longview metropolitan area
Branding 92.1 The Team FM
Slogan All Sports Radio
Frequency 92.1 MHz
First air date 1975 (as KROZ)
Format Sports
ERP 9,600 watts
HAAT 135 meters (443 ft)
Class C3
Facility ID 24247
Former callsigns KROZ (1975-1992)
KGLD (1992-1993)
KGLD-FM (8/24/1993)
KDOK (1993-2009)
KTBB-FM (2009-2015)
Affiliations Fox Sports Radio
Owner Gleiser Communications, LLC
Sister stations KTBB, KYZS
Website Gleiser Website

KRWR (92.1 FM) is an American radio station in Tyler, Texas, and is owned by Gleiser Communications, LLC and airs a sports format with programming from Fox Sports Radio.

History

The 92.1 frequency traces its roots back to 1975 as KROZ ("K-Rose").

During its lifetime, it has aired country music ("Tyler Rose Country"), rock, and urban contemporary music formats (as "Z92.1" while keeping the KROZ calls) and included local personalities such as Hoss Huggins, Alex Price, Joel Hardy, Mike O'Neill, Bill Davis, Paul Berry, and Mick Fulgham.

KDOK logo used until April 2009

The station flipped to a 1950s/1960s oldies format and took the KGLD calls on February 9, 1992. On August 24, 1993, the station changed its call sign to KDOK.[1] KTBB (600 AM) has had the same call sign since it signed on.[2]

On April 27, 2009, KDOK dropped the oldies format for a syndication of the news/talk and sports programming on sister station KTBB. The call sign was also changed to KTBB-FM to match KTBB.[3]

On May 7, 2009, the KDOK calls and oldies format were moved to 1240 AM in Kilgore, Texas. The station on that frequency was previously known as KBGE.

On February 3, 2015, the station's call sign was changed to KRWR.

Programming

On August 6, 2011, KTBB-FM changed formats from consumer information based talk radio programming over to ESPN Radio. The subsequent change in format also led to change the branding of the radio station to "ESPN East Texas 92.1 FM". ESPN East Texas now offers the full lineup of ESPN Radio programming as well as local programs such as "Sportstalk with Bill Coates" and "The Eric Sullivan Show".

In February 2017 KRWR switched affiliations to Fox Sports Radio and rebranded as "92.1 The Team FM".

(KRWR's logo under previous ESPN Radio affiliation)

References

  1. ↑ "KRWR Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ "KTBB AM Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ "Statement from KDOK President Paul Gleiser".

Coordinates: 32°22′28″N 95°16′24″W / 32.37444°N 95.27333°W / 32.37444; -95.27333

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