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KLAT (1010 AM) is a commercial radio station in Houston, Texas. It is owned by Latino Media Network, and airs a Spanish-language adult contemporary and Regional Mexican radio format. KLAT's transmitter site is on West Little York Road in northwest Houston. [2] By day, KLAT broadcasts at 5,000 watts.
In 1947, Houston's first FM station was added, 101.1 MHz KTRH-FM. [19] The FM station mostly simulcast KTRH's programming when few people had FM radios. In the 1950s, as network programming moved from radio to TV, KTRH-AM-FM switched to a full service middle of the road (MOR) format. In 1965, KTRH-AM-FM were acquired by the Rusk Corporation.
Interstate 610 (I-610 [a]) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that forms a 37.972-mile-long (61.110 km) loop around the inner city sector of the city of Houston, Texas.I-610, colloquially known as The Loop, Loop 610, The Inner Loop, or just 610, traditionally marks the border between the inner city of Houston ("inside the Loop") and its surrounding areas.
For much of the early days of radio, KTRH had been one of Houston's top AM stations, co-owned with The Houston Chronicle. In 1947, an FM station was added, 101.1 KTRH-FM. [ 4 ] It was the third FM station in Houston (after the short-lived KOPY and KPRC-FM) and mostly simulcast KTRH's programming when few people had FM radios.
Steve Hicks purchased the AM & FM facilities in 1980. In 1989, Hicks proposed to move the FM signal off of the AM's tower in Vidor, Texas, and relocate it further west to Devers, Texas in order to rimshot Houston with its signal. A Construction Permit for the move was granted on October 10, 1989, and was licensed for operation at the new site ...
KPRC (950 kHz) is a commercial radio station in Houston, Texas.It has a talk radio format and is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. KPRC broadcasts mostly conservative talk radio shows and is the home base for the nationally syndicated Walton & Johnson and The Jesse Kelly Show.
Westheimer Road and Westheimer Parkway are named after Mitchell (Michael) Louis Westheimer, [13] a prosperous German Jewish immigrant and flour salesman who had settled in Houston in 1859. [14] [15] He purchased a 640-acre (260 ha) farm west of Houston's city limits at the time, where Lamar High School and St. John's School are currently ...
Interstate 10 (I-10 [b]) is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas , it runs east from Anthony , at the border with New Mexico , through El Paso , San Antonio , and Houston to the border with Louisiana in Orange .