KLTY-FM

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KLTY

City of license	Arlington, Texas
Broadcast area	Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Branding	94.9 KLTY
Slogan	Safe for the Whole Family
First air date	1957 as KCLE FM
Frequency	94.9 MHz
Format	Adult Contemporary Christian
ERP	100,000 watts
Class	C
Callsign meaning	Light
Former callsigns	KCLE (1957-1969), KFAD (1969-1972), KAMC (1972-1976), KWJS (1976-1984), KJIM (1984-1985), KLTY (1985-1986), KHYI (1986-1990?), KPWR (1990? - 1991) KODZ (1991-1992), KSNN (1992-1996), KEWS (1996-1997), KWRD (1997-2000)
Owner	Salem Communications (Inspiration Media of Texas, LLC)
Website	www.klty.com

KLTY is a Christian oriented music radio station owned by Salem Communications on 94.9 MHz with studios located in Irving, Texas. Station slogan: "Safe for the Whole Family".

[edit] History

KLTY was first created by Scott K. Ginsburg after he purchased KJIM 94.9 Arlington from Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and began playing a mix of contemporary Christian music (CCM) along with the preaching and teaching programs inherited from the Jimmy Swaggart operation. Key to the mass appeal of CCM on KLTY was the engagement of David Pierce as Program Director/afternoon drive time announcer and Jon Rivers as morning drive time announcer. David Pierce chose to drop the preaching/teaching programs after several months of the new KLTY format. This version of KLTY lasted only from early August 1985 to late September 1986 when station owner Scott K. Ginsburg changed the call letters to KHYI and changed the format. The transmitter site was not at Cedar Hill but instead transmitted from Lillian, Texas with over 30,000 Watts.

Marcos Rodriguez purchased the music library from Ginsburg and began planning the conversion of 94.1 to all CCM. Unable to make a deal for the KLTY call letters (because they were held by an FM station in Liberty, Missouri) or the services of Rivers (who worked at 102.9 KMGC), he hired Paul Martin, Chuck Gratner and Mark Johnson and launched KOJO the following year.

In the spring of 1989, with a free Michael W. Smith concert, Rodriguez and his then GM Mark Hulme relaunched the station with Jon Rivers and the KLTY call letters. Rivers became VP of programming and held that position through August 2001. Jon Rivers and his wife are now on K-LOVE Christian radio in the morning drive time.

KLTY was on 100.7 MHz from January 2000 to December of 2000 and was owned by Sunburst until it was sold to Salem. Salem swapped the Christian talk format, that had been on 94.9 for nearly two and a half years, known as the Word and placed the popular KLTY on the better 94.9 signal while the Word went to 100.7. This placed KLTY back on its original frequency.

The Vice President and General Manager of 94.9 FM KLTY is John L. Peroyea, who joined the team in July 1999. Peroyea collaborates with Chuck Finney, Director of Programming for 94.9 FM KLTY and National Brand Manager for the Salem FISH Stations to provide "family-friendly" music. KLTY now transmitts with 100,000 Watts from Cedar Hill, Texas.