KCMC (740 AM) is a radio station licensed to Texarkana, Texas, United States. It serves the Texarkana metropolitan area. The station is currently owned by Cliff Dumas, through licensee BTC USA Holdings Management Inc. Studios are located on Olive Street, just west of the border with Arkansas, and the transmitter is on De Loach Street in the Texarkana city limits also west of the Arkansas border.
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| Broadcast area | Texarkana metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 740 kHz |
| Branding | 107.9 The Fan |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports radio |
| Affiliations | Infinity Sports Network |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KBYB, KTFS, KTFS-FM, KTOY, KTTY | |
| History | |
First air date | 1933 |
Former call signs |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 33729 |
| Class | D |
| Power |
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Transmitter coordinates | 33°24′30.00″N 94°2′47.00″W / 33.4083333°N 94.0463889°W |
| Translator(s) | 107.9 K300DW (Texarkana) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | www |
History
editThe station was founded in 1933 by Clyde E. Palmer as a sister outlet to his Texarkana Gazette. It was Texarkana's first radio station. By approval of the Federal Communications Commission, station WDIX, Tupelo, Mississippi, was shut down, and operation of KCMC in Texarkana, Arkansas, was authorized. KCMC operated on 1420 kHz with 100 watts of power.[2]
The station is an affiliate of the Dallas Cowboys radio network.[3]
Disk jockey Barney Cannon (1955–2009), an authority on Country music who spent a quarter century with KWKH in Shreveport, once worked at KCMC.
On January 15, 2015, the then-KTFS changed formats to talk, branded as "Talk Radio 740".[4]
On July 1, 2017, KTFS went silent. On November 28, 2017, KTFS's call sign was changed back to KCMC. A news release on the KTOY website said that KCMC could return to the air from a new facility at some time in the future.[5]
On January 22, 2019, KCMC returned to the air with conservative talk, simulcasting KTFS-FM 107.1 Texarkana, AR.[6]
In mid-October 2019, KCMC dropped its simulcast with KTFS-FM and changed its format to sports, branded as "107.9 The Fan".[7]
740 AM is a Canadian clear-channel frequency, on which CFZM in Toronto, Ontario is the dominant Class A station. KCMC must reduce power during nighttime hours in order to protect the nighttime skywave signal of CFZM.
Translator
edit| Call sign | Frequency | City of license | FID | ERP (W) | HAAT | Class | Transmitter coordinates | FCC info |
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| K300DW | 107.9 FM | Texarkana, Texas | 202065 | 230 | 99 m (325 ft) | D | 33°25′45.4″N 94°7′11.7″W / 33.429278°N 94.119917°W | LMS |
References
edit- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KCMC". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "KCMC Soon Starts" (PDF). Broadcasting. January 15, 1932. Retrieved October 1, 2014.
- ^ "Dallas Cowboys on Radio". DallasCowboys.com. Archived from the original on December 8, 2007. Retrieved December 12, 2007.
- ^ "Format Shuffle In Texarkana - RadioInsight". January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Texarkana Radio Center the first to bring HD radio to Texarkana airwaves - KTOY". www.ktoy1047.com. Archived from the original on July 19, 2017.
- ^ Formats on the Move in Texarkana Radioinsight - January 22, 2019
- ^ 107.9 The Fan Debuts in Texarkana Radioinsight - November 11, 2019
External links
edit- Facility details for Facility ID 33729 (KCMC) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- KCMC in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- Facility details for Facility ID 202065 (K300DW) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- K300DW at FCCdata.org
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