KKPT
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KKPT is an American commercial radio station
located in Little Rock, Arkansas
, USA. KKPT broadcasts a classic rock
music format branded as "The Point". The station is owned by Signal Media and the broadcast license
held by Signal Media of Arkansas, Inc.
This station originally broadcast from the antenna on the side of the Tower Building in downtown Little Rock as KMMK, also known as K-Rose, a classical/easy listening format. In 1973, Bernie Mann/Mann Media, purchased the station,changed the calls to KEZQ and moved the tower out West to Shinall Mountain
, and eventually increased the ERP/Tower height to cover the entire Metro. The station aired the Bonneville "Beautiful Music" format, and did well.
Mann Media sold the station to Multi-Media Communications in 1976 along with the other station he owned, KALO-AM 1250 to Ron Curtis, who had purchased Dan Garner's KLAZ, 98.5 FM. Multi-Media changed the 94.1 FM call letter and format shortly after closing to KLPQ (KQ-94) and launched a Rock format. The market was in uproar for quite some time, while the Beautiful format was aired in mid-days and evenings on Ted Snider's KARN 920 AM.
In 1978, Ed Muniz from New Orleans purchased 100.3 FM in Jacksonville and purchased the "intellectual property" from Gary Fries/GM of KLPQ-FM, and launched FM-100/KEZQ. KLPQ survived until late 1983 when Philip Jonsson from Dallas purchased the station, and launched KHLT-"K-Lite". This format survived several years, but changed to CHR as K-Rock in approximately 1991.
In 1994, the change was made to "The Point", a classic/pop rock format, which was an early hybrid of Classic leaning Top-40 and Classic Rock. The station was assigned the call sign
"KKPT" by the Federal Communications Commission
on June 17, 1994. When Magic 105 FM left the harder edge Classic Rock format for "We Play Everything" Tom-FM in early 2008, The Point was left as the lone classic rock station in Little Rock.
Radio station
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located in Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock is the capital and the largest city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 699,757 people in the 2010 census...
, USA. KKPT broadcasts a classic rock
Classic rock
Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...
music format branded as "The Point". The station is owned by Signal Media and the broadcast license
Broadcast license
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held by Signal Media of Arkansas, Inc.
This station originally broadcast from the antenna on the side of the Tower Building in downtown Little Rock as KMMK, also known as K-Rose, a classical/easy listening format. In 1973, Bernie Mann/Mann Media, purchased the station,changed the calls to KEZQ and moved the tower out West to Shinall Mountain
Shinall Mountain
Shinall Mountain, elevation , is located near the Chenal Valley neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains...
, and eventually increased the ERP/Tower height to cover the entire Metro. The station aired the Bonneville "Beautiful Music" format, and did well.
Mann Media sold the station to Multi-Media Communications in 1976 along with the other station he owned, KALO-AM 1250 to Ron Curtis, who had purchased Dan Garner's KLAZ, 98.5 FM. Multi-Media changed the 94.1 FM call letter and format shortly after closing to KLPQ (KQ-94) and launched a Rock format. The market was in uproar for quite some time, while the Beautiful format was aired in mid-days and evenings on Ted Snider's KARN 920 AM.
In 1978, Ed Muniz from New Orleans purchased 100.3 FM in Jacksonville and purchased the "intellectual property" from Gary Fries/GM of KLPQ-FM, and launched FM-100/KEZQ. KLPQ survived until late 1983 when Philip Jonsson from Dallas purchased the station, and launched KHLT-"K-Lite". This format survived several years, but changed to CHR as K-Rock in approximately 1991.
In 1994, the change was made to "The Point", a classic/pop rock format, which was an early hybrid of Classic leaning Top-40 and Classic Rock. The station was assigned the call sign
Call sign
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"KKPT" by the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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on June 17, 1994. When Magic 105 FM left the harder edge Classic Rock format for "We Play Everything" Tom-FM in early 2008, The Point was left as the lone classic rock station in Little Rock.