KLTY

KLTY (94.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to Arlington, Texas, owned by the Salem Media Group with a transmitter in Cedar Hill.

KLTY lasted only from early August 1985 as "Light 95"[3] to late September 1986 when station owner Scott K. Ginsburg changed the call letters to KHYI and changed the format to Top 40 as the moniker "Y-95", marking it one of the two simply "alternative" Top 40 station in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.

Both KEGL and Y-95 were not simply "CHR-dominant" enough as apparently, Y-95's Top 40 format was differently mainstreamed and was sometimes altered on surveys.

This would last until late 1987 when KEGL began extremely slowly fading out of its rock-flavored formula and would, in the middle of the following year, switch its format from Rock 40 to CHR after more contemporary titles were added, but when 1989 rolled along, KEGL began to wobble back-and-forward on transitional songs between the two formats.

The transmitter site back then was not at Cedar Hill, the primary antenna farm for Dallas radio, but instead transmitted from Lillian, Texas with 100,000 watts at 1,140 feet.

Marcos A. Rodriguez was a fan of the original KLTY and saw potential in the format - especially if a radio station could play it 24 hours a day.

However, he was unable to make a deal for the KLTY call letters because they were held by an FM station in Liberty, Missouri (a suburb of Kansas City).

Morning and afternoon drive newscasts were anchored by former KVIL news director Bob Morrison and Calvin Whitman, and later, Dave Tucker.

[10] KLTY staff informed their listeners of the upcoming changes, and aired special programming for its final day on January 31.

Employees included notables such as Russ Bloxom (later news anchor at WBAP/KXAS-TV,) Don Harris (personality at WBAP-AM) and Mike Ambrose (later with KLIF-AM, and a San Diego TV weatherman for 28 years.)

In the mid sixties KCLE (AM) was sold to Earle Fletcher (manager of KXOL Ft. Worth and concurrently owner of KBAN Bowie).

Notables included Jon Dillon (now at KZPS), writer Phillip Cook, Dave Thomas and Joe Nick Patoski (later the senior editor of Texas Monthly magazine.

On January 1, 1972, Dick Osburn took ownership of the station, and reimaged it as KAMC ("K-Mac") while continuing the underground music format.

KAMC was the only station in Dallas - Ft. Worth to play Outlaw Country artists like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.

After the first incarnation of KLTY (1985–86) and then KHYI (1986–91) (which aired a Top 40 format, first as "Y95", then "Power 95"),[12] 94.9 was home to KODZ "Oldies 94.9", starting on October 28, 1991.

Notable weekday hosts included Bonnie and Jeremiah in the morning,[15] middays with Tony Lopez,[16] afternoons with Dave Moore,[17] and nights with Penny.