KLUV
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| City of license | Dallas, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex |
| Branding | "98.7 K-Luv" |
| Slogan | "North Texas' Greatest Hits" |
| Frequency | 98.7 (MHz) (Also on HD Radio) 98.7 HD-2 for True Oldies |
| First air date | 1961 as KROW |
| Format | Oldies/Classic Hits |
| ERP | 99,000 watts |
| HAAT | 507 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 67195 |
| Callsign meaning | K-Love |
| Former callsigns | KROW (1961-1963) KLIF (1963-1966) KNUS (1966-1981) KLVU (1981-1984) |
| Affiliations | CBS CNN Radio Network |
| Owner | CBS Radio (Texas CBS Radio Broadcasting, LP) |
| Sister stations | KJKK, KLLI, KMVK, KRLD, KVIL also part of CBS Corp. cluster: TV stations KTVT and KTXA |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | kluv.com |
KLUV, branded as "K-LUV" (K-Love), is a radio station transmitting on 98.7 FM, serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Texas with an Oldies format, however KLUV is leaning into more of a Classic Hits format with some music from the early 1980s mixed in their playlist since late 2006. KLUV is currently owned by CBS Radio and affiliated with the CNN Radio Network.
[edit] History
KLUV was first established in January, 1984 and bills itself as a "Classic Top 40" station. Former owner John Tenaglia purchased the more-coveted "KLUV"-spelled call letters for $10,000 from a Louisiana station and trading them the former KLVU calls. Continuing its light adult contemporary format from KLVU, the station began incorporating pop oldies into its mix throughout 1984; then, by November, 1985, the station became all-pop oldies after purchasing the record collection of newly-defunct KXOL-1360 AM in Fort Worth at auction.
In the late 1950s, the station was first established as KOST. The callsign was immediately requested when the application was sent in 1959. It was then rebranded KROW in 1961 as a Top 40 station in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, owned by Gordon McLendon. Two years later, the callsign changed to KLIF as a simulcast of sister station KLIF (AM).
In the 1970s, the station changed to KNUS, while maintaining its Top 40 format. KNUS had previously been an all-news and then a progressive rock station, as "K-News." When McLendon sold his AM Top 40 flagship KLIF to Fairchild Industries in 1972, he offered them KNUS as well, but Fairchild declined. As part of the sale, McLendon agreed not to operate any AM station within a 150-mile radius, but since the agreement did not forbid him to operate an FM station, McLendon continued to operate KNUS and morphed it into a rock-based Top 40 station which played hit music without the "bubblegum" and "teeny-bopper" material.
KNUS eventually transitioned into a more mainstream Top 40, and it paid off when the station passed KLIF in the ratings in the fall of 1975, becoming one of the first FM Top 40 stations to defeat its chief AM competitor. By the end of the 1970s, however, KNUS had fallen out of the top ten, and the station switched to an adult contemporary format as KLVU in 1981 before adopting the current oldies format in 1983, playing pop oldies from the 1950s to the late 1960s.
The Chuck Brinkman years included many personalities: Hubcap Carter, Jason Walker, Jonathan Hayes, Brian Pierce & Kate Garvin.
After 1998, 98.7 KLUV, like many oldies stations around the United States, largely removed the 1950s songs from its playlist. Another KLUV station, 1190 AM (coincidentally, the former KLIF), existed from 1998-2000 and primarily played 1950s music. Meanwhile, the main station tweaked its format to pop oldies from the mid 1960s to early 1980s. Starting in 2002, the station was temporarily the "radio home" of the Dallas Cowboys, featuring live broadcasts of their games. In 2006 Dallas Cowboys broadcasts moved to KTCK.
In 2005, with the retirement of long-time radio veteran Ron Chapman, KLUV picked up noted Dallas news personality Jody Dean as replacement.
Peter Zolnowski, KLUV's Program Director, fired longtime DJ Chuck Brinkman in 2006. Most years, on Memorial Day weekend, KLUV features a "Top 500 Countdown" in which the top 500 oldies, as picked by the station's listeners, are played in descending order for the entire weekend.
KLUV recently launched an HD Radio sub-station. Originally, it was called "The Fab Format", where fans of The Beatles can hear their music 24/7, but in January 2008 they've changed the format to include oldies from the 1950s and 1960s, much similar to ABC Radio's True Oldies Channel. It can be heard on 98.7 HD-2 (HD Radio needed). [1]
[edit] External links
- KLUV official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KLUV
- Radio Locator information on KLUV
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KLUV
- KLUV is at coordinates Coordinates:
- 2006 Top 500 Countdown
- Mike Shannon's Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and TV History
- DFW Radio Archives
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