KHJK is an Adult Alternative

Adult alternative

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-formatted radio station

Radio station

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 serving the Houston and Beaumont, Texas

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, areas. The studios are currently located in the Westchase Bank Building at 9801 Westheimer Road

Westheimer Road

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 in Houston, Texas

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, with its transmitter facility located southeast of Devers, Texas

Devers, Texas

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, in Liberty County

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. The station serves as the only competitor to Clear Channel

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's rock stations (alternative

Alternative rock

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 KTBZ

KTBZ-FM

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 and classic rock

Classic rock

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 KKRW

KKRW

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). The station features KHOU

KHOU

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 anchors and weatherman Gene Norman as information providers for the station.

History

KHJK-FM previously operated as KVST, "K-Star Country 103.7", which was licensed to service the area north of Houston. Owned by Ben Amato of Conroe (who sold his chain of grocery stores around the Conroe, Texas area to finance the radio station), it originally signed on as KVST in Huntsville, TX on 103.5; however, interference from 103.5 in Buda, TX (Oldies 103.5 Austin, now BOB-FM) caused the station not to reach down to the intended audience of Conroe and a look at a move in frequency was done. It moved to 103.7 and later a simulcast on 99.7 (KUST, Willis) was added to help the coverage in Conroe and The Woodlands. The station, whose signal was poor in comparison to Houston's other country music stations, was purchased by Cumulus Media in mid-2004, which later acquired greater Houston

Greater Houston

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's only Top 40 station, KRBE, in addition to also owning 97.5, the former KAYD-FM (now KFNC and a rimshot for Houston).

In 2005, the station's transmitter was moved to its current location in Devers to service the Houston area. This resulted in another format change, with the station switching to KIOL and its heritage rock format that had been carried on the 97.5

KFNC

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 frequency, which was a carry over from the original heritage rock frequency of 101.1 KLOL which had flipped to a Spanish format. 97.5 continued as a simulcast on the latter until switching to a news (and later, ESPN

ESPN

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) format.

On August 30, 2007, the Houston Chronicle

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 reported that KIOL would be switching to the Jack FM

Jack FM

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format at 10:37 a.m. on August 31, 2007 and adopting new call letters, KHJK http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/entertainment/5096189.html.

In May 2009, KHJK shifted from Adult Hits to Adult Alternative as "103-7FM."

Callsign history

• KTDD - 05/03/1990
• KVST - 07/22/1991 (K-Star Country)
• KUST - 03/30/2005
• KIOL - 05/23/2005 (Rock 103-7)

HD radio

Cumulus Broadcasting began upgrading its stations to HD Radio broadcasting in 2005. One of the first ten stations to be upgraded was KIOL. However, the station is only currently on HD Radio via KRBE-HD2.