KULF

This article is about the current AM 1090 at Bellville. For other stations with this callsign, see KULF (disambiguation).
KULF
City of license Bellville, Texas
Broadcast area Victoria, Texas, Houston, Texas
Frequency 1090 kHz
First air date November 19, 1974 (license)
Format Spanish
Power 1,000 watts day only
Class D
Facility ID 48653
Transmitter coordinates 29°56′50.00″N 96°15′54.00″W / 29.9472222°N 96.2650000°WCoordinates: 29°56′50.00″N 96°15′54.00″W / 29.9472222°N 96.2650000°W
Former callsigns KBAL (November 20–December 14, 2009)
KNUZ (AM) (1997–2009)
KFRD (1993–1997)
KACO (1974–1993)
Owner Jerome Friemel
(JLF Communications, LLC)

KULF (1090 kHz) is an AM daytimer radio station based in Bellville, Texas broadcasting a Spanish music format known as "Radio Luz".[1] Licensed to Bellville, Texas, USA, serving the Victoria, Texas and Houston, Texas regional area. The station is currently owned by Jerome Friemel, through licensee JLF Communications, LLC.[2]

The station operates on a Class D daytime license on 1090 kHz. Because KULF shares the same frequency as clear-channel station station KAAY in Little Rock, Arkansas, it broadcasts only during the daytime hours. KULF currently holds a construction permit to move their broadcasts to Katy, Texas.

1090 signed on the air in 1974 as Austin County's first and only licensed radio station. It was owned by the Dittert family. It was granted the calls of KACO, representing not just service to its community of license Bellville, but to the entire Austin County population. KACO started as a 250 watt daytimer featuring a country & western format. In 2010, 1090 moved its tower site out of the City of Bellville itself, opting to build a new site 8 miles southeast of Bellville, Texas with an increase in power to 1 kilowatt, in an effort to cover more of the Houston-Galveston metropolitan area. In 1993, the Dittert family sold the facility to Roy Henderson, and the KACO calls would be retired in 1993, as 1090 changed its callsign to KFRD, which had been at 980 AM in Rosenberg, Texas for many years. 4 years later, 1090 received a grant to change its call letters and begin use of the KNUZ calls that had occupied 1230 AM in Houston since the 1940s. As KNUZ, and under Roy Henderson's direction, the station simulcasted "Lite 94.1" KLTR out of Brenham. The station's former KNUZ call letters were originally assigned to the Houston station on AM 1230 now known as KCOH, and are now used for 106.1 in San Saba, Texas.

In December 2009, the station was sold for a reported $500,000 by Roy E. Henderson to JHT Ventures, Inc., 100% controlled by Janice Hollan. JHT sold KULF to Jerome Friemel's JLF Communications, LLC at a purchase price of $10,000; the transaction was consummated on January 29, 2013.

References

  1. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Summer 2009. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
  2. ↑ "KULF Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2010-02-13.

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