KGOW

KGOW
City of license	Bellaire, Texas
Broadcast area	Greater Houston
Branding	Yahoo! Sports Radio 1560
Slogan	"The Flagship of Yahoo! Sports Radio"
Frequency	1560 kHz
First air date	1961 (in Port Lavaca, TX)
Format	Sports
Power	46,000 watts (day) 15,000 watts (night)
Class	B
Facility ID	17389
Transmitter coordinates	29°19′37″N 95°33′0″W / 29.32694°N 95.55000°W / 29.32694; -95.55000 (day) 29°54′5″N 95°48′15″W / 29.90139°N 95.80417°W / 29.90139; -95.80417 (night)
Callsign meaning	David GOW (CEO)
Former callsigns	KILE (1996-2007)
Affiliations	Yahoo! Sports Radio
Owner	GOW Communications
Sister stations	KFNC
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1560TheGame.com

KGOW (1560 AM), known as "Yahoo! Sports Radio 1560," is an American sports talk format radio station based in Houston, Texas, USA. It is currently owned by GOW Communications. GOW Communications also owns Yahoo! Sports Radio, and the network's operations are based at KGOW. The transmitter site is located between Manvel and Angleton, Texas and studios are located in Uptown Houston one block from The Galleria.

History

1560 first appeared in south Texas as KGUL (AM) in Port Lavaca, Texas. It began on 95.9 FM.

A time brokered station in the Houston area (the now deleted KFCC (AM)) operated in Bay City, Texas and later operated in the Stafford, Texas area. Unfortunately the station moved without proper FCC permission. When it was clear that this facility would be going away, the principals secured a front "real party in interest" to take the KGUL facility to Houston. They operated with 800 watts, later 5,000 watts on a simple directional system.

Prior to September 2007, the station was KILE, with a Multi-Language talk radio format, and was the only one in the Houston area to broadcast in many languages.

The current all-sports format began on August 20, 2007.

Programming

The station's lineup includes morning co-hosts Sean Pendergast and John Granato from 6 - 11 AM. Travis Rodgers, former producer of the Jim Rome Show, hosts a local hour from 11 to noon with noon - 3 carried by Yahoo! Sports Radio, which is owned by the same company that owns KGOW. The afternoon show features Adam Clanton (the voice of the parody "Rome On A Mobile") and John Wessling.

KGOW is the flagship radio broadcast affiliate for Rice University football.

During daytime hours, KGOW transmits from near Rosharon, TX, SSW of Houston, with 46,000 watts. At night, KGOW transmits from near Cypress-Katy, TX, NW of Houston, with 15,000 watts. The highly directive nature of both the daytime antenna array (six towers, with high efficiency) and the nighttime antenna array (nine towers, with standard efficiency) means that the apparent power towards Houston is greatly in excess of the licensed power, about the equivalent of 857,000 watts days and 197,000 watts nights (when compared to the 1,000 watt non-directional reference antenna for this class of station, Class B). This effect is shared by a number of other Class B stations in the Houston market. Houston has no allocated Class A stations (the only Class A stations in Texas are allocated to Dallas, KRLD, 1080 kHz; Fort Worth, WBAP, 820 kHz; and San Antonio, WOAI, 1200 kHz).

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KGOW

Radio-Locator Information on KGOW

Radio stations in Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown

by FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.7 89.3 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.9 93.3 93.7 94.5 95.7 96.5 96.9 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.5 99.1 99.7 99.9 100.3 100.7 101.1 102.1 102.9 103.7 104.1 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.5 106.9 107.5 107.9

by AM frequency	560 610 650¹ 700 740 790 850 880 900¹ 920 950 980 1010 1050¹ 1070 1090¹ 1110¹ 1140¹ 1180 1230 1320 1360 1380 1400 1430 1460 1480 1500 1520¹ 1540 1560 1590 1610 1670 1680

Digital radio	790 950

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 (Houston) 162.550 (Galveston)

by callsign	KACC KAFR KAMA-FM KANI KBME KBRZ KBXX KCHN¹ KCOH KEYH KFNC KFTG KGBC KGG68 KGLK KGOL KGOW KHB40 KHCB KHCB-FM KHJK KHMX KHPT KIKK¹ KILT KILT-FM KJIC KJOZ KKBQ-FM KKHH KKHT-FM KLAT KLOL KLTN KLVI KLVL KMIC KMJQ KNTH KODA KOVE-FM KPFT KPRC KPVU KQBT KQBU-FM KQQK KQUE KRBE KRCM KREH¹ KROI KSBJ KSEV KSHJ KSHN KTBZ-FM KTEK¹ KTHT KTJM KTRH KTSU KTWL KUHA KUHF KULF¹ KVST KWWJ KXBJ KXYZ KYND¹ KYOK¹ KYST

Defunct	KSTB 101.5 FM

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 226 Sirius Channel 154 Nearby radio markets Austin Bay City–Freeport Beaumont–Port Arthur Bryan–College Station Corpus Christi Huntsville San Antonio Victoria See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Daytime-only AM radio station.

Sports Radio Stations in the state of Texas

Stations:	KBED - Nederland KBME - Houston KCLE - Burleson KESN - Allen KETX - Livingston KEYS - Corpus Christi KFNC - Beaumont KGOW - Bellaire KHEY - El Paso KIKK - Houston KIKR - Beaumont KILT - Houston KJXJ - Franklin KKTK - Texarkana KKAM - Lubbock KLGO - Elgin KMND - Midland KNET - Palestine KONO - San Antonio KOPY - Alice KPUR - Amarillo KREW - Plainview KRLD-FM - Dallas KROD - El Paso KRWR - Tyler KRZI - Waco KSEY- Seymour KSIX - Corpus Christi KSNY - Snyder KTCK - Dallas KTCK-FM - Flower Mound KTKR - San Antonio KTLT - Anson KTRG - Hooks KTTU-FM - New Deal/Lubbock KTXX-FM - Bee Cave KVET - Austin KVNS - Brownsville KXPN-FM - Scotland KYZS - Tyler KZDC - San Antonio KZNE - College Station KZQQ - Abilene

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Texas See also ESPN Radio ESPN Deportes Radio Fox Sports Radio CBS Sports Radio NBC Sports Radio Yahoo! Sports Radio Sports Byline USA

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