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Anybody know about... KWSK 95.7 assigned to Cason, Texas

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b-turner

This is a LPFM that has had quite a history since its inception after the first window. It seems they had a fire and recovered. Later, they lost their tower site and got a new site. During this time they have had to change frequencies 3 times due to interference reducing their signal to squat.

It seems the station runs an oldies format with some gospel music and local information and weather.

Looking at their 50 and 60 dbu, it appears they are located in that space between Mount Pleasant, Pittsburg and Daingerfield, Texas, with the 50 dbu not quite making the city limits of any of these 3 towns. However it looks like almost 10,000 live within the 50 dbu although the unincorporated Cason has a mere 173 population in 2000. There are very few businesses in the 50 dbu coverage.

Can anyone tell me more about KWSK 95.7. Have you heard it?
 
Unless something's changed KWSK-LP is still run by Wayne Shultice. I worked for him years ago (he still owes me $250) and he built KWSK-FM 106.9 around 1989-90 as kind of a hobby station. He had an tinny antenna, an old 3K RCA transmitter and trailer with a makeshift studio off the side of Lookout Mountain (Henley Dr & Hicks Rd) a couple miles west of Daingerfield. It was never a well programmed station.. it sounded like a 20 CD changer with oldies and southern gospel CD's playing on random. He later sold that license and it became KAZE (The Blaze) out of Ore City. I guess he used that money to later set up an LPFM station. With that location it got out pretty good in Mt Pleasant & Pittsburgh. I remember listening to it driving down 271 and it got out very well for 100 watts (hummm) almost to Gilmer. I also heard he was trying to buy KNGR 1560 there but gave up with the owners.
 
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Thank you for the info. No website for the station and very little detail. Even the phone has a full mailbox. Pretty much, just curious about the station since there was so little info out there.
 
That's all I know. I haven't been in that area for a couple years so I dont know if KWSK is on the air at that new frequency now.
 
I would doubt much has changed but the frequency and tower site. It seems that in a search I saw the new tower site is 'donated' but looking at the new coverage it looks they are further from Daingerfield and a bit closer to Pittsburg. I hope the station is making it. It seems it might be more a labor of love with open wallet versus one that at least pays its bills. It seems the Daingerfield AM is not a big moneymaker but a ministry, although I read the husband has passed. I think that was a couple of years back.
 
b-turner said:
I would doubt much has changed but the frequency and tower site. It seems that in a search I saw the new tower site is 'donated' but looking at the new coverage it looks they are further from Daingerfield and a bit closer to Pittsburg. I hope the station is making it. It seems it might be more a labor of love with open wallet versus one that at least pays its bills. It seems the Daingerfield AM is not a big moneymaker but a ministry, although I read the husband has passed. I think that was a couple of years back.
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Unless something has happened, KNGR has been dark for a couple of years since the owner's death. Last time I heard it on the air while driving through the area (about 3 years ago) KGOW Houston's huge 50K skywave near sundown was totally overwhelming KNGR's little 1.6K about 7 miles out of town.
 
KGOW likely would still intefere with the Daingerfield co-channel, if KNGR were on the air, but KGOW throttled it back to 46kW shortly after they got the authorization for 15k at night. I'm sure it still blasts way into East Texas and the ArkLaTex most evenings.

Btw, you can't blame us in Houston for that one, Billy. 1560's Bellaire's, not ours.
 
Oops sorry.. I just wish KNGR's owners had tried to move off 1560 when KGOW moved in or tried to get a FM translator. But they were an mom & pop station running a niche format on a tiny AM signal in a very small town.
 
I understand KNGR was a Southern Gospel/Christian Country station that was a ministry versus simply a format. That is not to say they were not a nice niche formatted station but I suspect they were not a cash cow by any means. Too bad they left the air. I always hate to see a station vanish from the dial.

At least KWSK, in all its Low Power FM glory gets to pump out its 100 watt ERP equivalent from what I understand is a donated site off of Farm to Market Road 1735.
 
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