KBRH (1260 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rhythm and blues format in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.
Baton Rouge High has owned and operated this station since 1993, when it returned to the air after a silence of several years and the killing of its owner, who had been working to put it back into service following a bankruptcy.
On November 6, 1951, Jules J. Paglin and Stanley W. Ray, Jr., a partnership doing business as the Capital City Broadcasting Company, applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for authority to construct a new, daytime-only radio station on 1260 kHz in Baton Rouge.
[4] The FCC granted a construction permit on September 18, 1952,[2] and the station began broadcasting as WXOK on February 16, 1953; studios were at Third and Convention streets, while the transmitter was located 4 mi (6.4 km) west of Port Allen.
[10] Angie Burge, Ralph's widow, sold WAIL in late 1978 to majority owner Victor Brown, a New Orleans physician, and Louis Bathen of Baton Rouge, together doing business as Venture Broadcasting.
When the deal took effect in February 1979, the station was retooled as WTKL "Tickle" with a "contemporary beautiful music" format promising "no Bach, no rock", but everything in between.
The FCC rejected a filing made by Richard Preis, the other shareholder in Leader Group, to keep the station silent because he was not an officer of the licensee.
[21][22] Later in 1993, the newly renamed KBRH began broadcasting under Baton Rouge High School ownership and with students performing staff duties.