KWRD 1470 AM

KWRD 1470 AM تبث على 1470.0 AM من Henderson، United States، وتُبث مباشرة على Tuninga Radio.

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(1470 ) is a terrestrial American radio station, relayed by an FM translator and simulcast with sister stations KCKL and KYYK, broadcasting a hybrid classic country format, with an emphasis on Texas Country artists. It also features programming from the E-Tex Radio Network and co-owned High Plains Radio Network. Licensed to , Texas, United States, the station serves the -Longview-Marshall area. The station is owned by Tiffany, Kristi, and Monte Spearman, through licensee Zula Com, LLC. was initially proposed by Wesley R. Dean, Wilton W. Freeman, and Lynn J. Roy in 1955. Requesting an application to construct a 500-watt daytime only facility under the name Wes Dean & Associates, a construction permit was granted by the Federal Communications Commission to build the facility, licensed to , Texas on November 23, 1955. Dean would purchase a complete turn-key RCA transmitter and studio facility for the station, which would be located at Texas State Highway 26 and Charles Street in . The single tower facility was built and granted a License to Cover on August 3, 1956. The station was assigned the callsign by request, with the call letters standing for the initials of Dean's name. Wes Dean, who was a former local TV star at KTVE in Longview, Texas, went to in hopes of starting his own station, only to find that there was already one radio station in the city, KGRI 1000. KGRI was owned by country music star Jim Reeves. Dean would end up owning the other licensed facility, 1000 KGRI, and FM facility 99.9 KGRI-FM during this time, having purchased both from Reeves' wife, Mary, and Reeves' partner Tom Perryman, after his death in 1964. Perryman and Jim's wife would go on to move to Murfreesboro, Tennessee and purchase WMTS--FM. The KGRI license was surrendered by the Dean family on May 31, 1985 in order to accommodate an out of state facility's upgrade on the same operating frequency. The former KGRI-FM facility is still licensed, now to Tatum and using the call sign KZQX. Wes Dean & Associates, through his widow Helen Dean and son Chipper, would own until April 8, 1998, when it was sold to Witko Broadcasting. Former Tyler City Councilman Jerry Russell sold the facility to Jerry and Wanda Hanszen, requesting a license transfer to Hanszen Broadcasting on July 27, 2012. The license transfer for was granted on September 7, 2012. has maintained a Country format for most of its existence. Prior to the sale of KPXI, it broadcast sports programming, utilizing the national NBC Sports Radio format. After the sale, it returned to country, assuming the displaced classic country format of 100.7. On January 3, 2023, a Transfer of Control was filed with the Federal Communications Commission to sell and its translator to Zula Com, LLC.