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Salem sells KLTY, six other CCM stations to EMF

txchipk said:
The "40 years in North Texas" counts the KOJO 94.1 days, since the KLTY calls don't have 40 years combined across 94.9, 94.1, 100.7, and 94.9 again. Which is legit as the owners of 94.1 did buy up all the KLTY jingles, library, etc. when KLTY was sold the first time and became KHYI "Y95."
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Growing up mostly in Tulsa, KESS/KOJO/KLTY 94.1 and KZRK/KDGE 94.5 were almost always available with a good car radio or outdoor antenna on a digital home stereo. Those were the only DFW stations on FM that were regulars there. At the beginning of my sophomore year of high school, KOKL-FM moved to 94.1 as KTHK and obliterated KLTY, and KDGE was gone about a year later when KEMX signed on.

KLTY's sign off sounded a lot like the sign off of KLGH in Oklahoma City some 20+ years earlier.

txchipk said:
Since they waited a year to change 94.1 from regional Mexican to contemporary Christian, the KLTY calls were long gone and taken by AC "K-Lite" 106.5 Kanas City and they had to bring back the format under different calls until the KLTY calls got reclaimed in 1989.
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I spent a few weeks in the summer of ‘87 at a summer camp near Kansas City and remember listening to K-Lite 106.5. It was basically a Pop/Top-40 station that didn’t play hard rock or rap. It was very current focused. Can’t remember if it had the KLTY calls at the time or not, but I remember thinking the K-Lite name was somewhat weird for the programming because it didn’t sound like your typical lite rock station. Then again, Kansas City had so many AC stations at the time that differentiating yourself was essential. I also remember hearing KLTY right after KOJO 94 changed calls and wondering if it was the same station.
 
I find it sad that DFW doesn’t have a full-time local CCM station now. KCBI plays a lot of CCM but not full-time and 88.3 The Journey only covers a part of Tarrant County.

I sampled KLTY this rainy Thursday morning. They were talking about the rainy weather and even had bumpers to the effect. You can’t really do that on a national scale.

It seems when Christian stations get successful they want to expand and turn into a network. When churches seek to reach other areas they will start church plants that (if successful) turn into their own churches with local people. It’s a shame you don’t see something like that in Christian radio.

I think DFW could support another locally programmed CCM station, at least non-commercial. Some people would say that is too many. This brings to something someone commented on this site a while back about the “cardinal rule” that there can’t be too many religious stations on the dial. Maybe I’m wrong. Personally, I would prefer for Power FM to come back, but personal preferences do not dictate reality or feasibility.
 
94.9 KLTY is currently showing the “94.9 KLTY Your Life Inspired” text info on HD. Maybe they’ve decided to switch back? 😝
 
chriscervantez said:
94.9 KLTY is currently showing the “94.9 KLTY Your Life Inspired” text info on HD. Maybe they’ve decided to switch back? 😝
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More than likely the RDS will continue to display incorrect tag lines until the actual license purchase is complete when EMF engineers can swap out the equipment. Same reason the sub channels still air Salem content.
 
chriscervantez said:
I’m guessing they’re still running out of the former Salem KLTY studios for now and the K-Love feed is just potted up on the board.
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Close. The equipment is running out of the building but it's not in the KLTY studio. Soon K-Love will run directly from the transmitter site.

As for the call letter change from KLTY to KLUV, I am leaning toward it not happening, or if it does it will be six month to a year. There is too much goodwill to be maintained by keeping it KLTY. The main reason for taking over the KLUV call letters and parking them outside of the market was to reduce / eliminate confusion.
 
Kent said:
Growing up mostly in Tulsa, KESS/KOJO/KLTY 94.1 and KZRK/KDGE 94.5 were almost always available with a good car radio or outdoor antenna on a digital home stereo. Those were the only DFW stations on FM that were regulars there. At the beginning of my sophomore year of high school, KOKL-FM moved to 94.1 as KTHK and obliterated KLTY, and KDGE was gone about a year later when KEMX signed on.
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I'm curious: how could you get stations from North Texas in Tulsa?
 
When I go there to stock up on Trader Joe's, I can find the big DFW AM's on the freeway, but no FM's. I think FMs would be during tropo ducting season only.
 
tested said:
I'm curious: how could you get stations from North Texas in Tulsa?
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During the late 80’s/early 90’s, there weren’t very many stations between Tulsa and DFW. My dad was always adamant that we wouldn’t pay for cable when we could watch TV for free over-the-air. So, we had an outdoor TV antenna, which I also wired into my stereo. That was easy even for a teenager with only rudimentary mechanical and electronic skills. It worked fine for FM since it was a VHF antenna, and the FM band sits between Channels 6 and 7. With the exceptions of 94.1 and 94.5, none of the DFW stations were regulars at the house. Well, KMEZ 107.5 was a regular, too, until KGND 107.5 signed on. I got most of the DFW area stations occasionally unless they were co-channel or adjacent channel to Tulsa stations. Most everything non-local that I got was OKC or Ft. Smith. Wichita, Little Rock, and Joplin visited occasionally, too, but few, if any, were reliable. By the end of 1991, the Tulsa area had stations on 94.1 and 94.5, and the DFW stations were gone other than occasional visitors. Today, when I visit Tulsa (my mom and sister live there), the FM dial is so cluttered from translators and move-ins I can’t get much of anything that's not local. The house that had the outdoor antenna was sold roughly half my life ago, but I can’t imagine that antenna would make a difference today.

Robert Douglas said:
When I go there to stock up on Trader Joe's, I can find the big DFW AM's on the freeway, but no FM's. I think FMs would be during tropo ducting season only.
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KDFT 540, KLDD/KKWM/KLIF 570, KWFT/KAAM 620, KSKY 660, WBAP 820, KRLD 1080, and KNRB 1360 were the AM regulars when I lived in Tulsa. 570, 620, 820, and 1080 were the most reliable, and 1480 and 1540 were occasional visitors. Surprisingly, I frequently found Soul 73 KKDA on my stereo when I went to college in Arkansas, but it was nonexistent in Tulsa due to being next to KRMG 740.
 
tested said:
I'm curious: how could you get stations from North Texas in Tulsa?

Kent said:
During the late 80’s/early 90’s, there weren’t very many stations between Tulsa and DFW. My dad was always adamant that we wouldn’t pay for cable when we could watch TV for free over-the-air. So, we had an outdoor TV antenna, which I also wired into my stereo. That was easy even for a teenager with only rudimentary mechanical and electronic skills. It worked fine for FM since it was a VHF antenna, and the FM band sits between Channels 6 and 7. With the exceptions of 94.1 and 94.5, none of the DFW stations were regulars at the house. Well, KMEZ 107.5 was a regular, too, until KGND 107.5 signed on. I got most of the DFW area stations occasionally unless they were co-channel or adjacent channel to Tulsa stations. Most everything non-local that I got was OKC or Ft. Smith. Wichita, Little Rock, and Joplin visited occasionally, too, but few, if any, were reliable. By the end of 1991, the Tulsa area had stations on 94.1 and 94.5, and the DFW stations were gone other than occasional visitors. Today, when I visit Tulsa (my mom and sister live there), the FM dial is so cluttered from translators and move-ins I can’t get much of anything that's not local. The house that had the outdoor antenna was sold roughly half my life ago, but I can’t imagine that antenna would make a difference today.
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And vice versa...in Dallas, I could catch then-KAYI 106.9 Muskogee-Tulsa since that part of the dial was vacant until 95.3 McKinney moved to 106.9 to allow KHYI to become a full C. (The old 106.9 McKinney was later relocated east, now KRVA-FM 107.1 Campbell, to allow KXGM 106.5 Muenster to move to 106.7C to rimshoot D/FW).
 
txskywtchr said:
Still Salem until the license change is approved. Everything is still running through the Salem compound off of Beltline in Irving.
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I get it, but that seems like a technicality. If the license change would happen to be denied (anything seems possible at this point), does Salem just fire up the old studio? It just seems poor planning to debut a format about 80% of the way and leave it like that for weeks. But I guess that just how radio works nowadays.
 
chriscervantez said:
I get it, but that seems like a technicality. If the license change would happen to be denied (anything seems possible at this point), does Salem just fire up the old studio? It just seems poor planning to debut a format about 80% of the way and leave it like that for weeks. But I guess that just how radio works nowadays.
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It’s just a mere formality. Probably within the next few weeks. Once the license has been assigned to KLOVE, their engineers with began the build out at the Cedar Hill sight. More than likely you’ll see Air1 on HD2 and one of the other KLOVE streaming channels on HD3. The digital delay wont be upwards of 45 seconds on the main channel either (you’ll notice this if you’re commuting from Waco to DFW and listening to 88.1). There will be two EAS transmissions during severe weather. One directly from the National Weather Service Office in Fort Worth instantly when it’s issued off of WarnGen and the other 10 minutes later for the same Watch/Warning from WBAP.
 
chriscervantez said:
I get it, but that seems like a technicality. If the license change would happen to be denied (anything seems possible at this point), does Salem just fire up the old studio? It just seems poor planning to debut a format about 80% of the way and leave it like that for weeks. But I guess that just how radio works nowadays.
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Keep in mind, also, that, while Salem remains the licensee, it's responsible for the station's FCC obligations. That's part of why 94.9 is still being operated out of Salem's offices.

If the deal would happen to fall apart, Salem would take back over operation of the station. When something like that happens, the licensees can usually work together to make the handoff as graceful as possible. Radio has worked that way for more than 30 years now.
 
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