KVRK
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| City of license | Sanger, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Denton/McKinney/Fort Worth/Gainesville/ Sherman/Denison/Southern Oklahoma |
| Branding | 89.7 Power FM |
| Slogan | "The Christian ROCK Station" |
| Frequency | 89.7 MHz |
| First air date | 1999 |
| Format | Christian Rock |
| ERP | 14,000 Watts |
| HAAT | 518 meters |
| Class | C1 |
| Facility ID | 76285 |
| Former callsigns | KTPW (1999-2004) |
| Owner | Research Educational Foundation, Incorporated |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.897powerfm.com/ |
KVRK is a Christian rock music formatted radio station located in Dallas, Texas. It is owned and operated by Research Educational Foundation, Inc. (a non-profit entity) and broadcasts on 89.7 FM. As a non-profit, it annually hosts two fund-raising drives to remain on the air.
KVRK advertises itself as "Power FM," "89.7 Power FM," and "The Christian Rock Station." It broadcasts at 14,000 Watts from a tower in Sanger, Texas.
[edit] History
After a two year stay in Florida, Eldred and Raye Nell Thomas, returned to the Dallas area and decided to start a Christian radio station. Through other business interests, Mr. Thomas learned of KVTT-FM, an existing station that operated as an extension of Elkins Institute, a broadcasting training facility. With retirement looming, Bill Elkins, the founder and president of the Elkins Institute, wanted to find someone to continue with the station he had operated since 1950. In March 1976, Mr. Thomas became the president of Research Educational Foundation, Inc. and General Manager of KVTT-FM.
In 1994, KVTT applied to the FCC to begin broadcasting a full-time Christian rock station for the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Around the same time, 1995, the station began to target the area youth with their music programing in the evenings with Power Mix on weeknights, Youth Wake (later Lighthouse 21) on Saturday nights and Spin 180 on Sunday nights.
It took over 4 years for the application to be processed and granted by the FCC. A license was granted to broadcast at 14,000 watts as KTPW and transmit from a tower north of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Sanger, Texas on Jan. 18, 1999. The new station began broadcasting July 27, 1999.
In 2004 REF Inc. released their responsibility to KVTT and is responsible only for Power FM.
The KVRK call letters were established June 14, 2004.
Eldred and Raye Nell Thomas are both deceased.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KVRK
- Radio Locator information on KVRK
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KVRK
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