KYKR

KYKR

City	Beaumont, Texas
Broadcast area	Beaumont/Port Arthur/Orange Golden Triangle
Branding	"Kicker 95.1"
Slogan	"Continuous Country Favorites"
Frequency	95.1 (MHz)
First air date	November 1991
Format	Country
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	131 meters
Class	C1
Facility ID	25581
Transmitter coordinates	30°03′43.00″N 93°58′50.00″W / 30.0619444°N 93.9805556°W / 30.0619444; -93.9805556
Callsign meaning	KY(i)cKeR
Owner	iHeartMedia, Inc. (Capstar TX LLC)
Sister stations	KLVI, KKMY, KCOL-FM, KIOC
Website	www.kykr.com

KYKR (95.1 FM, "Kicker 95.1") is a radio station broadcasting a Country format. Licensed to Beaumont, Texas, it serves the Beaumont/Port Arthur metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting at 93.3 FM under the current call sign. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia, Inc..

History

For many years, KYKR was located at 93.3 FM. Then, in November 1991, top 40 station KZZB went silent, prompting then-owners Gulfstar to purchase the 95.1 signal and place KYKR's country format on it. 93.3 and 95.1 simulcast briefly before the latter frequency became KYKR's full-time home in the summer of 1992.

Actually, 93.3 was originally licensed at KCAW-FM (its sister AM was on 1510 as a daytimer only - Currently KBED and owned by Cumulus) and was owned by Jimmie Joynt of Port Arthur. Jimmie sold the station when he moved to Dallas to start Superior Broadcast Products. KYKR was issued to 93.3 in the early 1980s and went through owner ship by the Hicks family of Beaumont (Steve Hicks most notably of CapStar; his father, John Hicks, had owned 560 KLVI since the 1960s) and was moved to the 2000 ft Clear Channel Devers tower in the early 1990s after Steve Hicks had purchased 95.1. 93.3 was sold to Tichner Broadcasting, now Univision, and the KYKR format was permanently moved to the 95.1 frequency that had been dark for some time under KZZB.

On January 4, 1988, the KYKR tower in South Vidor suffered a massive fire believed to be arson. Both the FM and 1510 AM transmitter were lost. KYKR struggled with borrowed equipment to make it back on the air at low power and eventually recovered.

External links

Kicker 95.1 Website

Query the FCC's FM station database for KYKR

Radio-Locator information on KYKR

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KYKR

Radio stations in the Beaumont–Port Arthur, Texas market

By AM frequency	560 740 790 850 990 1150 1250 1300 1340 1450 1510 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.5 89.7 90.5 91.3 92.5 93.3 94.1 94.7 95.1 96.9 97.5 98.1 98.5 99.9 100.7 101.7 102.5 103.3 103.7 104.5 104.9 105.3 106.1 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.475

By callsign	K234AM K251AL K277AG K285GD KAYD-FM KBED KBME KBPO KCOL-FM KDEI KEYH KFNC KGHY KHJK KIKR KIOC KKHT-FM KKMY KLBT KLLS KLVI KOGT KOLE KQBU-FM KQQK KQXY-FM KSAP-LP KSHN KTCX KTJM KTRH KTXB KVLU KXXF KYKR KZFT KZZB WXK28

Nearby radio markets Fort Polk South Houston–Galveston Huntsville Lake Charles Lufkin–Nacogdoches See also List of radio stations in Texas

iHeartMedia

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (Chairman/CEO)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by iHeartMedia

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