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UT Tyler to Launch NPR affiliate at 99.7 FM

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https://radioinsight.com/headlines/189123/ut-tyler-to-launch-new-npr-affiliate-with-kvut-purchase/


https://radioinsight.com/headlines/189123/ut-tyler-to-launch-new-npr-affiliate-with-kvut-purchase/ The University of Texas at Tyler has filed to purchase 99.7 KVUT Cuney TX from North Texas Radio Group for $120,000.

The former KOEE holds a CP to relocate to a University owned site in Bullard TX with 1.4kW/166.8m where it will add coverage of Tyler. The deal, which has been in the works for months, was first reported in the University’s student newspaper in March. At the time, the Patriot Talon reported that KVUT intends to launch around September 1 with a mix of NPR and APM produced content with News and Talk programming surrounded by Classical music during the day and Jazz at night.
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The proposed launch date is on September 1st.
 
Chuck said:
It's not anything, just a Construction Permit for Cuny, TX.
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Actually, it is indeed on the air. Airing a mix of hard rock/80's hair with no imaging, and no commercials. Has a simple ID of "KVUT Cuney Frankston". There's a stretch of SH 155 that you can listen OTA for about 5 miles. It was still on the air as of yesterday from the current "tower".
 
cotton belt said:
Actually, it is indeed on the air. Airing a mix of hard rock/80's hair with no imaging, and no commercials. Has a simple ID of "KVUT Cuney Frankston". There's a stretch of SH 155 that you can listen OTA for about 5 miles. It was still on the air as of yesterday from the current "tower".
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I should clarify that KVUT is currently operating from behind the Cuney Community Center on US 175 at its licensed 100 watts ERP. It has an extremely compact coverage area, much as you would expect from the equivalent of an LPFM. Chuck is correct that KVUT has a CP for 1.4kW from the on campus tower at UT Health in Bullard, just west of US 69. It will have less of an overall coverage area than 94.3 KZXM once the upgrade is built out. It's basically being shoehorned in to Tyler, and will be stuck with a less than stellar signal on the north side of the city, and gone well before I-20. The facility has to protect next door neighbor KMOO-FM in Mineola, KERA's translator at 100.1 in Tyler, White Oak's KAPW on 99.3, and co-channel KETE up in Sulphur Springs.
 
It's sort of counter to the pattern we've been seeing lately where colleges around the country have sold off their broadcast stations, claiming their students aren't interested in FM radio, and there's more interest in internet radio. Of course this appears to be a professionally run operation, rather than a student station.
 
That explains the KVUT calls. Non-commercial niche programming would be about the best use for a signal that weak. Too bad it doesn't cover Longview. But Longview is able to get programming from KDAQ out of Shreveport. I'm sure KVUT will stream, too. The station should do alright since the signal is strongest in the more afluent south side of Tyler, where the bankrollers are.
 
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