KJDL-FM

For the AM radio station in Lubbock, Texas, United States, see KJDL (AM).

KJDL-FM
City	Levelland, Texas
Broadcast area	Lubbock, Texas
Branding	The Red Dirt Rebel 105.3
Slogan	"Your Texas Music Station"
Frequency	105.3 MHz
First air date	1979 (as KHOC at 105.5)
Format	Texas Country
ERP	23,500 watts
HAAT	217 meters
Class	C2
Facility ID	30027
Former callsigns	KHOC (1979-1991) KLVT (1991-2007)
Former frequencies	105.5 MHz (1979-2008)
Affiliations	Westwood One
Owner	Walker FM Holdings
Sister stations	KJDL_AM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	thereddirtrebel.com

KJDL-FM (105.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Texas Country format. Licensed to Levelland, Texas, USA, the station serves the Lubbock area. The station is currently owned by Walker FM Holdings, LLC and features an all Texas Country format.^[1]

History

The station went on the air as KLVT-FM on March 8, 1991. On July 24, 2007, the station changed its call sign to the current KJDL-FM.^[2]

Delbert L. Kirby had been an announcer and newscaster in Lubbock, Big Spring and Levelland for many years. Kirby was working at KLVT (AM) when he decided to file an application for an empty FM channel (288A or 105.5 MHz) in Levelland. Kirby was KLVT news director when the application showed up in Broadcasting magazine. The KLVT manager saw this and fired Kirby. Kirby sold merchandise door to door while he worked on his application. He'd obtained an SBA backed loan and contacted Charles "Charlie" Wilson to install the station equipment.

Original airdate was in fall of 1979. Call letters were KHOC (FM) for Hockley county. Studios and tower were on 13th street between avenue Q and avenue S in southwest Levelland. Power was 3,000 watts at a height of 300 feet (91 m) above average terrain.

Original equipment was provided by Don Jones of Amarillo, Texas as representative of McMartin Industries. KHOC began with a five-room 12-foot (3.7 m) by 30-foot (9.1 m) prefab building at the tower site. There was an office, a bathroom, a small production area, the on the air control room, and the transmitter room. There was a McMartin B-502 console, two turntables, an ITC (International Tapetronics Corporation) 3D cart player and an ITC PD-II recorder, an electrovoice microphone, two Marti Electronics CLA-40 compressor limiters, and a McMartin BF-3.5K transmitter feeding 300 feet (91 m) of 1 5/8" feed line into a three bay Phelps Dodge antenna on a rented two way tower.

Station later raised power to 6,000 watts still on 105.5, sold to KLVT (AM) changed letters to KLVT-FM. A new site and change to class C3 on 105.3 occurred in _____, and the most recent change to 105.3C2 and a new site occurred in 2008.

The station sold to its current owners in 2007 and operates as sister station to 1420 KJDL (AM). The format was originally syndicated "Jack-FM" and was changed to a Country format in January 2009.

In November 2009, longtime country DJ Neely Yates joined the on-air staff. In the following months, the station's format shifted to a "Texas Country" playlist, playing all Texas Country Music and rebranding as The Red Dirt Rebel 105.3.

Current on-air staff

Quayde Addison
Jamie Lassiter
Tommy Turner
Dave Walker
David Wilde
Neely Yates

Syndicated programming

The Red Dirt Rebel 105.3 runs syndicated programming on Sunday. At 9 AM it's the Lonestar Outdoors Show with Cable Smith. At 2 p.m. KJDL airs the Official Texas Countdown with Chuck Taylor', and from 4-7 p.m. Texas Red-Dirt Roads with Justin Frazell, a syndicated program originating from KFWR 95.9 The Ranch in Mineral Wells, Tx. They are also the Lubbock radio affiliate for the Houston Texans and broadcast the 1st Baptist Church of Brownfield.

Previous Logo

(KJDL-FM's logo under previous "True Country" branding)

References

↑ "KJDL-FM Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
↑ "KJDL-FM Call Sign History". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for KJDL

Radio-Locator information on KJDL

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for KJDL

Radio stations in the Lubbock, Texas market

By FM frequency	87.7¹ 88.1 88.5 88.5 89.1 89.7 90.1 90.3 90.5 90.9 91.5 91.9 92.7 93.7 94.1 94.5 95.5 96.3 97.3 98.1 98.5 99.1 99.5 100.3 100.7 101.1 102.5 102.9 103.5 103.9 104.3 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.5 106.9 107.3 107.7

By AM frequency	580 790 900 950 1090 1230 1250 1300 1340 1380 1420 1460 1490 1590

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 162.500

Digital Radio	89.1-1 89.1-2 89.1-3 97.3-1 97.3-2 97.3-3

By callsign	K218DI K231BE K245BG K249DU K253BD K264AN KAIQ KAMY KAMZ KBAH KBTE KBZO KDAV KEJS KFLP KFLP-FM KFMP-LP KFMX-FM KFYO KIKZ KJAK KJDL KJDL-FM KJTV KKAM KKUB KKCL-FM KKLU KKYN-FM KLBB-FM KLCT-LP KLLL-FM KLTB-FM KLVT KLZK-FM KMMX KMUL KONE KPBB KPGA KPHS KPMB KQBR KRBL KRFE KRIA KSSL KTTU-FM KTTZ-FM KTXT-FM KVIO-LP KVOP KXTQ-FM KZII-FM KZZN WXK79 WZ2507

Defunct	KCLR 1530

Nearby radio markets Abilene Amarillo Big Spring–Snyder Odessa–Midland Roswell See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Audio signal of KFMP-LP (alternative rock audio)

Country radio stations in the state of Texas

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Defunct:	KDLP-LP – Ace KRHC – Burnet KSTB – Crystal Beach KTON – Belton KUOL – San Marcos

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Texas

Coordinates: 33°25′23″N 102°07′44″W / 33.423°N 102.129°W / 33.423; -102.129

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