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KUZN 105.9

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yragha

Was getting all kinds of out of town stations coming in this morning including 98.3 Columbus and 104.7 Bryan-College Station. But, I've never came across this one until I stopped right before the Big Dog 106 (Beaumont) and discovered the "Country Cousins" lol.

Googled to find out it's a station in Madisonville and a new station (?) in Livington 102.5.

Just curious if anyone knows how long these two have been around cause I don't get anything much usually at 105.9, but today was pretty dang clear. Sound wasn't great, but overall for the short period I was listening played some good Country.

BTW, I'm still getting 99.7 KVST like it's a local, last night it drowned out KHSN 99.9 which is much, much closer to here. Odd!

Thank you
 
yragha said:
Just curious if anyone knows how long these two have been around cause I don't get anything much usually at 105.9, but today was pretty dang clear. Sound wasn't great, but overall for the short period I was listening played some good Country.
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KUZN has been around for a couple of years, this time around. 105.9 was actually licensed to Centerville as a Class C3 (25,000 watts at 328 feet) back in 1999, but the frequency was occasionally silent due to financial problems over the years. It had the KUZN call letters back in 2000 but switched to KTCJ soon afterward and aired a Black gospel format. That failed and the station went into receivership, returning with the current call letters and ownership in 2005. The offices are in Madisonville and their station in Livingston is actually K237AL, a 75-watt translator.

www.gokuzn.com/staff.html
 
Apologies to anyone living in their primary service area, but unfortunately KUZN covers a bunch of nothing, which is why it has been silent several times. Even the attractive B/CS market is at the very fringe of the signal area Gotta be a tough sell, even in an area that demographically fits the format.

However Country fans that frequently make the I-45 trip probably enjoy having KUZN in a somewhat sparse area for choice on the radio.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
However Country fans that frequently make the I-45 trip probably enjoy having KUZN in a somewhat sparse area for choice on the radio.
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Funny that you mentioned that, since I was just thinking about the way things were for many years along I-45. It was slim pickings, with no stations at all (AM or FM) between Corsicana and Huntsville, and the ones over in Bryan/College Station were generally low-powered. KNES in Fairfield came along in 1983, but the situation really began to change when the FCC issued a revised FM table of allocations in the late '80's as a result of Docket 80-90. The first "80-90" station to arrive along that stretch of highway was KIXF Madisonville, later becoming KAGG "Aggie 96" in 1989.
 
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