KDEI
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KDEI "Radio Maria" is an AM broadcasting station airing Catholic programming at 1250 kHz in Port Arthur, Texas
. It is a repeater station of KJMJ
580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana
.
frequently visited KPAC's studio during her recording career. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/music/5457531.html During this period,KPAC founded a sister FM at 98.5 mHz at first as a simulcast of KPAC-AM in 1963 which is now Spanish language KTJM
.
KPAC switched back to the previous MOR format in 1966 and later switched the callsign to KALO (aka: "K-Low") with an R&B format which competed with Beaumont's 1380 KJET (aka: "K-Jet") with a similar soul music format (now Fox News/Talk KRCM). KALO's studios were originally located at 7700 Gulfway Drive in Port Arthur until its sale to Radio Maria Inc. in 2000. KDEI (in November 2000) along with originator KJMJ
(in May 2000) and sisters KOJO
and KNIR
(in September 2000) were the first stations forming Radio Maria's USA network and the first to broadcast in English. KDEI can also be heard during daytime hours (at 5,000 watts) in portions of the Houston
and Pasadena
areas and just outside the Lake Charles, Louisiana
area where KOJO at 91.1 FM can be heard outside of KDEI's signal. In September 2005, Hurricane Rita
totally destroyed the KDEI tower site and was briefly off the air until another tower site was leased to resume broadcasting while an emergency fundraiser and on-air pleas were made by program director Father Duane Stenzel O.F.M. The fundraiser succeeded meeting and beating its goal,new towers erected and KDEI was officially back on the air at the original tower site by the end of 2007. Online streaming is available for listeners ourside of KDEI's daytime signal and when it must power down at sunset to 1,000 watts. In addition to broadcasting fulltime in English, Radio Maria USA also airs a Spanish language program "Peublo De Dios" (People of God) which is aired on Saturday mornings from 10:30 am until 12 noon local time and again at 10pm on Saturday evenings.
Radio Maria also offers fulltime Spanish language programming on the FM subcarrier of KPFT
in Houston and online. (see links below)
Listeners outside KDEI's signal can listen online in addition to iPhone
, BlackBerry
and Android mobile phone devices by downloading the appropriate app from the Radio Maria website.
The KPAC callsign is now used at an FM station in San Antonio, Texas, and for a micropower FM in Stockton, California.
The KALO
callsign is now used at an independent religious television station in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Port Arthur, Texas
-Demographics:As of the 2000 census, there were 57,755 people, 21,839 households, and 14,675 families residing in the city. The population density was 696.5 people per square mile . There were 24,713 housing units at an average density of 298.0 per square mile...
. It is a repeater station of KJMJ
KJMJ
KJMJ "Radio Maria" is an American AM radio broadcasting stationin Alexandria, Louisiana where the Diocese of Alexandria in Louisiana is also headquartered and is the originating English language station of Radio Maria USA airing Catholic programming.-History:Originally founded in 1935 as KALB ,...
580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria, Louisiana
Alexandria is a city in and the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes....
.
History
KDEI was originally KPAC founded in 1934 as middle of the road radio switching to Top 40 music in the late 1950s. It is believed locally that blues/rock artist (and Port Arthur native) Janis JoplinJanis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer, songwriter, painter, dancer and music arranger. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band...
frequently visited KPAC's studio during her recording career. http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/music/5457531.html During this period,KPAC founded a sister FM at 98.5 mHz at first as a simulcast of KPAC-AM in 1963 which is now Spanish language KTJM
KTJM
KTJM is a radio station broadcasting a regional Mexican format. Licensed to Port Arthur, Texas, it serves the Beaumont-Port Arthur area. The station is currently owned by Liberman Broadcasting....
.
KPAC switched back to the previous MOR format in 1966 and later switched the callsign to KALO (aka: "K-Low") with an R&B format which competed with Beaumont's 1380 KJET (aka: "K-Jet") with a similar soul music format (now Fox News/Talk KRCM). KALO's studios were originally located at 7700 Gulfway Drive in Port Arthur until its sale to Radio Maria Inc. in 2000. KDEI (in November 2000) along with originator KJMJ
KJMJ
KJMJ "Radio Maria" is an American AM radio broadcasting stationin Alexandria, Louisiana where the Diocese of Alexandria in Louisiana is also headquartered and is the originating English language station of Radio Maria USA airing Catholic programming.-History:Originally founded in 1935 as KALB ,...
(in May 2000) and sisters KOJO
KOJO (FM)
KOJO "Radio Maria" is a non-commercial FM broadcasting station at 91.1 mHz in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Radio Maria USA airs Catholic programming.-History:...
and KNIR
KNIR
KNIR "Radio Maria" is an AM broadcasting station at 1360 kHz on the AM band licensed to New Iberia, Louisiana serving the greater Lafayette area with Catholic programming as a repeater of KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana.-Brief history:KNIR at one time was an AM/FM combo in New...
(in September 2000) were the first stations forming Radio Maria's USA network and the first to broadcast in English. KDEI can also be heard during daytime hours (at 5,000 watts) in portions of the Houston
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
and Pasadena
Pasadena, Texas
Pasadena is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the metropolitan area. It is the second-largest city in Harris County, 17th-largest in Texas, and 162nd largest in the United States. The area was founded in 1893 by John H. Burnett of Galveston....
areas and just outside the Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles, Louisiana
Lake Charles is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Located in Calcasieu Parish, a major cultural, industrial, and educational center in the southwest region of the state, and one of the most important in...
area where KOJO at 91.1 FM can be heard outside of KDEI's signal. In September 2005, Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rita caused $11.3 billion in damage on the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 2005...
totally destroyed the KDEI tower site and was briefly off the air until another tower site was leased to resume broadcasting while an emergency fundraiser and on-air pleas were made by program director Father Duane Stenzel O.F.M. The fundraiser succeeded meeting and beating its goal,new towers erected and KDEI was officially back on the air at the original tower site by the end of 2007. Online streaming is available for listeners ourside of KDEI's daytime signal and when it must power down at sunset to 1,000 watts. In addition to broadcasting fulltime in English, Radio Maria USA also airs a Spanish language program "Peublo De Dios" (People of God) which is aired on Saturday mornings from 10:30 am until 12 noon local time and again at 10pm on Saturday evenings.
Radio Maria also offers fulltime Spanish language programming on the FM subcarrier of KPFT
KPFT
KPFT is a listener-sponsored community radio station in Houston, Texas, which went on the air on March 1, 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. Larry Lee sold the idea to Pacifica to establish listener-supported radio in Houston as an alternative to main-stream broadcasting. The...
in Houston and online. (see links below)
Listeners outside KDEI's signal can listen online in addition to iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
, BlackBerry
BlackBerry
BlackBerry is a line of mobile email and smartphone devices developed and designed by Canadian company Research In Motion since 1999.BlackBerry devices are smartphones, designed to function as personal digital assistants, portable media players, internet browsers, gaming devices, and much more...
and Android mobile phone devices by downloading the appropriate app from the Radio Maria website.
The KPAC callsign is now used at an FM station in San Antonio, Texas, and for a micropower FM in Stockton, California.
The KALO
KALO
KALO is a non-commercial, independent Religious broadcasting television station serving Honolulu, Hawaii. The One Love Outreach, Inc. station operates at digital channel 38...
callsign is now used at an independent religious television station in Honolulu, Hawaii.
External links
- Official Radio Maria USA site (with streaming audio)
- Radio Maria USA in Spanish (KPFTKPFTKPFT is a listener-sponsored community radio station in Houston, Texas, which went on the air on March 1, 1970 as the fourth station in the Pacifica radio family. Larry Lee sold the idea to Pacifica to establish listener-supported radio in Houston as an alternative to main-stream broadcasting. The...
subcarrier with streaming audio) - Listing of Radio Maria's USA stations in English,Spanish and Italian
- World Family of Radio Maria
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KDEI
- Radio-Locator information on KDEI.