KKRW is 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...

 radio station in Houston, Texas. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications

Clear Channel Communications

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Adult alternative

Adult album alternative

Adult album alternative is a radio format. A spinoff from the album-oriented rock format, its roots trace to the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier freeform and progressive formats....

 music can be heard on the digital radio channel 93.7 HD-2 (HD Radio

HD Radio

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 needed). A simulcast of Newsradio 740 KTRH can be heard on 93.7 HD-3

Walton and Johnson and the on-air line-up

Walton and Johnson joined the station as its new morning show on February 23, 2009. The weekday on-air line-up is:

• 5:30 - 10 am Walton and Johnson (w/ KPRC-TV
  KPRC-TV
  KPRC-TV is the NBC affiliated television station based in Houston, Texas, and serving the Greater Houston television market. It has studios located in the Sharpstown district on the Southwest portion of the city, and has a transmitter site in unincorporated Fort Bend County near Missouri City...
  
  's Anthony Yanez providing morning weather, for the local feed)
• 10 am - 2 pm Kelly Ryan
• 2 - 7 pm Steve Fixx
• 7 pm - midnight Colonel St. James

Former on-air staff

Dean and Rog hosted mornings for 12 years starting in 1997.

Terry Ehlar hosted the 7 pm-midnight show during the K-Lite era.

Mac McClennahan hosted the afternoon show for several years and created the station's first website. He also sent out a weekly e-mail "blast" to over 5000 subscribing listeners.

Callsign history

• KBNO - 12/1963 (the 1970 film Brewster McCloud
  Brewster McCloud
  Brewster McCloud is a 1970 movie, directed by Robert Altman, about a young recluse who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome, where he is building a pair of wings so he can fly. He is helped by his fairy godmother, played by Sally Kellerman....
  
  featured an advertisement on a bus billboard)
• KRLY - Fall 1974 (Disco 94, Love 94, Y94)
• KLTR-FM - 3/20/1984 (Lite Rock 93.7)
• KLTR - 3/2/1986 (K-Lite 93.7)
• KKRW - 12/20/1993 (Arrow 93.7 70's Rock Hits, 93.7 The Arrow, Classic Rock 93.7 The Arrow)

External links

• 93.7 The Arrow (KKRW) Official Site