KUFO
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| City of license | Portland |
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| Broadcast area | Portland Salem, Oregon Vancouver, Washington |
| Branding | The Only Station That Really Rocks! |
| First air date | January 23, 1990 |
| Frequency | 101.1 (MHz) |
| Format | Active Rock |
| ERP | 97,000 watts |
| Class | C |
| Former callsigns | KKCY, KYTE-FM, KRCK, KLLB, KYTE-FM, KOIN-FM |
| Owner | CBS Radio |
| Website | www.kufo.com |
KUFO is a commercial radio station in Portland, Oregon, broadcasting to the Portland, Oregon area on 101.1 FM.
KUFO airs an active rock music format branded as "101 KUFO".
[edit] Personalities
KUFO airs the syndicated Adam Carolla show during the morning hours along with local personalities such as, Bozyk who came to Portland after running smaller stations in the midwest. At the heart of his mid-day show is "Rock and Roll High School," a segment where Bozyk breaks format and plays rock music of all kinds and stripes, including themed days like "Butt-Rock Friday" and cover tunes on Wednesday.
In 2005, radio personality Marconi returned to Portland radio after being fired from 94.7 FM KNRK two years earlier after joking on-air about the beheading of Nick Berg. He is joined by local Stand Up Comics Kristine Levine and Big Jim Willig, and the show puts an emphasis on spotlighting up-and-coming comedians and several local bands.
Cort and Fatboy came about after Fatboy won a contest to be a producer of "The Cort and Boomer Show." When the show was moved to a later timeslot, the show changed to its current lineup. Cort and Fatboy are known mostly for their radio serial "George W. Bush, Boy President," their laid-back celebrity interviews, and their series of monthly midnight movies.
[edit] Schedule
| start | end | feature |
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| 5 AM | 10 AM | The Adam Carolla Show |
| 10 AM | 2 PM | Bozyk |
| 2 PM | 7 PM | The Marconi Show |
| 7 PM | 12 AM | Cort and Fatboy |
Other KUFO's History
Before the Portland, OR version, there was....
97.9 KUFO Odessa-Midland, Texas
97.9 FM in Odessa, Texas was an off shoot of 1310 AM KOYL. It was called KOYL-FM, and went on April 1, 1966. Power was 34,000 watts horizontal polarization at 100 feet above average terrain. KOYL (AM) was a daytimer founded in 1957 by Edward Roskelley and his brother. This station was used to extend the day format into the night hours.
In 1979 the station was sold by the Roskelleys (Mid Cities Broadcasting) to Stream Broadcasting (Harold H. "Spook" Stream III who was married at the time to Lynn Anderson.) Stream also owned an FM station in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
While KOYL AM/FM had studios, AM transmitter, and FM transmitter at one site in north west Odessa, the new owners leased space in a newly constructed bank building in Odessa, built new AM, FM, news, and production spaces, and built a new FM site (used to this day by KODM) that boasted better coverage (100,000 watts horizontal and vertical, 360 feet above average terrain, and more centrally located betweenOdessa and Midland. The new KUFO (FM) was an Album oriented Rock station. The manager and chief architect was Frank Hall. The Program Director was J. Michael Scott. The Chief Engineer was Paul Easter, who'd done a tour at ch 4 KAMR-TV Amarillo, Texas and at KVOP (AM)/KATX (FM) Plainview, Texas.
And before west Texas...
Galveston, Texas
1540 KGBC (AM) Galveston, Texas had started an FM on February 11, 1968. Their KGBC-FM was located on Pelican Island, across a bay from the main part of Galveston. The FM studios and transmitter were located at the KGBC (AM) towers and studio site. KGBC (AM) had been on since 1947. Frequency was 106.5. Power was 26,000 watts, horizontal only at 195 feet above average terrain. The minimum power in those days (for a class C channel) was 25,000 watts. The station obtained equipment from Gates Radio division of Harris Intertype Corporation. They used an FM-5H transitter and a six bay horizontal only antenna located on one of two KGBC (AM) towers.
The station ran an easy listening format as KGBC-FM.
In 1974 the station was sold by Harbor Broadcasting to Beacon Broadcasting. The Beacon principals were local Galveston businessmen. They were not radio experts, but had been in town, and had seen certain things. An AM station across town (KILE (AM)) had studios in a 'fishbowl' studio in the lobby of the Galvez Hotel in Galveston. An FM between Gaveston and Houston had once been located near NASA and used the call letters KMSC standing for "Manned Space-Craft" center. The owners had seen an unusually shaped building in Houston (an hour's drive away) at a car dealer. They got one of the mushroom shaped buildings, arranged to install it on the property of the Flagship Hotel (built out over water on a long concrete pier)and moved their refurbished station in it. The new operation was dubbed KUFO because of the space ship like building.
The Antenna and transmitter remained at the former sister AM on Pelican Island. Leased telephone circuits carried program and control signals to the distant transmitter, and metering signals back to the studios. The new KUFO format was Album Oriented Pop music. The station affiliated with the ABC Radio Network's American FM network (newscasts at :15 after) and featured an artist spotlight at 10 pm "The 10 pm Album Replay".
KUFO also maintained (at least in summer of 1977) a remote studio at the west end of Galveston Island. What it did isanyone's guess.
The 106.5 got a permit to move it's antenna to Texas City, Texas (near Galveston but on the way toward Houston) for a 700-foot tower and 100,000 watts. This would be built a few years later by the next owners of the station.
Competitively the station was the equal of only the local and nearby Am stations. 1400 KILE (AM) was Top 40, 1540 KGBC (AM) was middle of road, and 920 KTLW was a daytimer playing Country and Western. When they started KUFO, most Houston FM stations were located on a mast atop the One Shell Building (at about 790 feet and 100,000 watts) that was 60 miles from Galveston. After 1982 most FMs moved to a new 2,000-foot tower near Missouri City, Texas. This was only a mile or two closer to Galveston, but the extra height made the stations nearly local grade in Galveston. When the "new" station hit the air the call letters were changed to KQQK (In Spanish pronounced KAH-COO-COO-KAH) and the format was changed to a very uptempo mix of songs and
KUFO sold to Marr Broadcasting in late 1979. The new owners knew they needed more studio and office space, and that they likely would want it closer to Houston. They were also going to put up a bigger tower and play to an area beyond Galveston and Texas City. Because of the changes, the new owners took the station silent for most of the next three years. When renewal came up in 1983, they had to explain that the station had only been on the air for about six months of the 36 month license period. A competitor for the facility San jacinto Broadcasting (Ben Walker & Edith L. Baker)filed for a new station and a hearing ensued.
A really new station (new file number, new owners) signed on after the hearing resulted in a settlement between old and proposed new owners. The new station also called itself KQQK and used the 700-foot tower in Texas City. In 1993 the station sold to a new company, and moved to a 1,375-foot tower near Hitchcock, Texas. That plant is now known as KOVE-FM.
[edit] External links
- Official Website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KUFO
- The Adam Carolla Show
- The Marconi Show
- Cort and Fatboy
- The Timnasium
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