KILT-FM

KILT-FM serves as a co-flagship radio station of the Houston Texans Football team, along with co-owned KILT.

KILT-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the highest permitted for non-grandfathered FM stations in the U.S.[2] The transmitter is off Farm to Market Road 2234 near Fort Bend Parkway in Southwest Houston.

The call letters were changed to KZAP in November 1967, shortly before McLendon sold his Houston properties to LIN Broadcasting.

Upon assuming control of KILT and KZAP in 1968, LIN changed the FM station's call letters to KILT-FM.

But in the late 1960s the Federal Communications Commission began encouraging AM-FM combos to offer separate programming on each station.

KILT-FM was staffed with young disc jockeys who chose the music for their shows and had the freedom to discuss pop culture and current events during their programs.

[5][6] When 610 KILT switched to country as well on June 1, 1981, its long-running Hudson and Harrigan morning show remained and began to be simulcast on KILT-FM.

The rest of the day, the AM had more talk and information and it played some classic country titles along with current songs, while KILT-FM was more contemporary and had its DJs avoid too much chatter.

Longtime KILT-FM afternoon personality Rowdy Yates, Erin Austin, and Cowboy Dave were subsequently named the new morning show hosts.

According to the Houston Chronicle, "after initial success, KILT-FM struggled through an aborted change of call letters (KXAS-FM in 1984) and the lack of a strong identity with listeners".

'"[14] On November 4, 2002, KIKK-FM stopped playing country music and switched to a Smooth Jazz format as KHJZ (now KKHH).