KODM-FM

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KODM-FM
City of license	Odessa, Texas
Broadcast area	Midland-Odessa
Branding	Lite Rock 98
Frequency	97.9 FM (MHz)
Format	Soft Rock
Callsign meaning	Odessa
Owner	Cumulus Media
Website	http://www.kodm.com

KODM (branded as Lite Rock 98) is a radio station that serves the Midland–Odessa metropolitan area with Soft rock music. The station broadcasts on 97.9 FM and is under ownership of Cumulus Media.

[edit] Personalities

Current

Spencer Bennett (Workday Wakeup Show, and program director; joined 19??)
Tonya Calloway (Workday Wakeup Show; joined 2005)
Justin Tate (Afternoon Drive; joined 2004)

Former

Kris Moore
Dina Fuentes
Ron Jeffries
Karen Carter
Lance Braden
Jim Brewer
Mark Bairrington

Before 97.9 KODM, the station was known as KUFO (FM) and before that as KOYL-FM

97.9 FM in Odessa, Texas was an off shoot of 1310 AM KOYL. It was called KOYL-FM, and went on April 1, 1966. Power was 34,000 watts horizontal polarization at 100 feet above average terrain. KOYL (AM) was a daytimer founded in 1957 by Edward Roskelley and his brother. This station was used to extend the day format into the night hours.

In 1979 the station was sold by the Roskelleys (Mid Cities Broadcasting) to Stream Broadcasting (Harold H. "Spook" Stream III who was married at the time to Lynn Anderson.) Stream also owned an FM station in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

While KOYL AM/FM had studios, AM transmitter, and FM transmitter at one site in north west Odessa, the new owners leased space in a newly constructed bank building in Odessa, built new AM, FM, news, and production spaces, and built a new FM site (used to this day by KODM)that boasted better coverage (100,000 watts horizontal and vertical, 360 feet above average terrain, and more centrally located betweenOdessa and Midland. The new KUFO (FM) was an Album oriented Rock station. The manager and chief architect was Frank Hall. The Program Director was J. Michael Scott. The Chief Engineer was Paul Easter, who'd done a tour at ch 4 KAMR-TV Amarillo, Texas and at KVOP (AM)/KATX (FM) Plainview, Texas.

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Radio stations in the Odessa-Midland, Texas market (Arbitron #187)

By Frequency: (FM) 88.1 | 88.7 | 89.5 | 90.1 | 90.5 | 90.9 | 91.3 | 92.3 | 93.3 | 94.1 | 95.1 | 96.1 | 96.9 | 97.9 | 98.3 | 99.1 | 99.9 | 101.3 | 102.1 | 103.3 | 104.1 | 104.7 | 105.5 | 105.9 | 106.3 | 106.7 | 107.9