KLEB

KLEB (1600 AM "The Rajun' Cajun") is a 5,000 watt daytime directional/ 250 watt nighttime directional radio station in Golden Meadow, Louisiana, broadcasting most of sister station KLRZ-FM's programming with the exception of some independent programming in the form of playing traditional cajun music instead of swamp pop during some hours of the week.

History

KLEB was originally owned by the Egle family of Golden Meadow from its inception. One of its owners was Dick Egle, who served as Lafourche Parish president in the 1980s. The Egles also owned the FM station, KZZQ-Galliano, La., which was automated. In the 1980s it was owned by the Harold Callais family of Golden Meadow who also owned the local cable company. During its life under Callais Cablevision, programming was mainly country music. In the early 1990s, It shared programming with sister station KBAU-FM 94.3 (As KZZQ was known at that time, before it was renamed KLEB-FM before being sold in 1995 and becoming WTIX-FM ). This station was sold by the family in 1999 to Coastal Broadcasting of Larose who installed a Cajun music format on the station. Since that time, the station has started to relay more of KLRZ's programming over this station compared to before.

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KLEB
• Radio-Locator Information on KLEB
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KLEB