KLTY-FM

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

**KLTY-FM** <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:Klty95.gif</td></tr><tr><th>City of license</th><td>Arlington, Texas</td></tr><tr><th>Broadcast area</th><td>Dallas/Fort Worth /Denton</td></tr><tr><th>Branding</th><td>94.9 KLTY</td></tr><tr><th>Slogan</th><td>Safe for the Whole Family</td></tr><tr><th>First air date</th><td>1985</td></tr><tr><th>Frequency</th><td>94.9 MHz</td></tr>
Format	Christian AC / Adult Contemporary <tr><th>ERP</th><td>100,000 watts</td></tr><tr><th>Class</th><td>Class C FM Station</td></tr>
Owner	Salem Communications <tr><th>Website</th><td>www.klty.com</td></tr>

KLTY-FM is the largest Christian radio station in America and is located in Irving, Texas. Their slogan is "Safe for the whole family". KLTY is a service of Salem Communications, and broadcasts on 94.9 FM.

Each year in July at Southfork Ranch, KLTY hosts Celebrate Freedom, which is the largest outdoor all day Christian concert in America, followed by the biggest fireworks display in the state of Texas.

1 History
2 "Celebrate Freedom"
3 Andi Jaxson's Ten @ Ten
4 External links

[edit] History

KLTY was first owned by Scott Ginsburg. He purchased KWJS 94.9 Arlington from Jimmy Swaggert Ministries and began playing a mix of CCM music along with the preaching/teaching shows inherited from the WJS operation. Key to the mass appeal of CCM on KLTY was the engagement of CCM industry pioneer Jon Rivers as PD and Paul Martin as GSM.

This version of KLTY lasted only from August 1985 to August 1986- suspiciously, exactly one year after closing.

During that time, the format and approach caught the eye, and ears, of Marcos Rodriguez. He controlled KESS 94.1 FM and had recently purchased 1270 AM and was looking for a way to stay in Spanish Radio while more fully maturing the FM.

Rodriguez purchased the music library from Ginsburg and began planning the conversion of 94.1 to all CCM. Unable to make a deal for the KLTY call letters or the services of Rivers, he hired Paul Martin, Chuck Gratner and Mark Johnson and launched KOJO the following year as the first all CCM FM in a major market. KOJO instantly became the top Christian-oriented station in the USA (and the world).

In the spring of 1989, with a free Michael W. Smith concert, Rodriguez and his then GM Mark Hulme relaunched the station with Jon Rivers and the KLTY call letters.

Rivers became VP of programming and held that position through August 2001.

The Vice President and General Manager of 94.9 FM KLTY is now John L. Peroyea, who joined the team in July 1999. Peroyea collaborates with Chuck Finney, Director of Programming for 94.9 FM KLTY and National Brand Manager for the Salem FISH Stations to provide family-friendly music 24/7!

KLTY also spent 8 months in 2000 on the 100.7 frequency owned by Sunburst until it was sold to Salem. Salem soon swapped the Christian talk format on 94.9fm known as the Word and placed the highly popular KLTY on the better 94.9 signal while the Word went to 100.7fm. This placed KLTY back on its original station that it debuted on in 1985.

[edit] "Celebrate Freedom"

KLTY sponsors an annual one day Christian festival on the weekend of the 4th of July (Independence Day in the United States). It is held at Southfork Ranch in Dallas.

[edit] Andi Jaxson's Ten @ Ten

The 10 most requested songs of the day, counted down from #10 to #1 every weeknight at 10. Vote tonight and then listen for your song in the countdown!