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| Broadcast area | Golden Triangle |
| Frequency | 560kHz |
| Branding | KLVI NewsTalk 560 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Talk radio |
| Affiliations | Premiere Networks Westwood One Fox News Radio Fox Sports Radio |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| KCOL-FM,KIOC,KKMY,KYKR-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | October 1, 1924 (1924-10-01) |
Former call signs | KFDM (1924–1963) |
Call sign meaning | "LVI" is 56 inRoman numerals |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 25580 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 30°02′42″N93°52′07″W / 30.04500°N 93.86861°W /30.04500; -93.86861 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (viaiHeartRadio) |
| Website | klvi.iheart.com |
KLVI (560AM, "News Talk 560") is an commercialradio station licensed toBeaumont, Texas, United States, and serves theBeaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area.[2] Owned byiHeartMedia, it features aconservative talk format with studios on Dowlen Road in Beaumont and transmitter is off Tower Road inBridge City.
The station first signed on as KFDM, on October 1, 1924. It was the first radio station inSoutheast Texas. In the 1930s, it was owned by the Sabine Broadcasting Company with studios in the million-dollarHotel Beaumont.[3] It transmitted with 1,000 watts by day and 500 watts at night.
In the 1940s, KFDM was given permission to boost nighttime power to 1,000 watts, same as the daytime. KLVI became anaffiliate of theNBC Blue Network, carrying its dramas, comedies, news, sports,soap operas,game shows andbig band broadcasts during the "Golden Age of Radio."[4] The Blue Network later becameABC Radio. As network programming moved from radio to television in the 1950s and 1960s, KLVI switched to afull service,middle of the road format of popular adult music, news, talk and sports.
The station was assigned thecall sign KLVI by theFederal Communications Commission[5] on December 31, 1963;[6] the call change took place after the radio station came under separate ownership fromKFDM-TV.[7] On-air personality Al Caldwell is credited with booking the first public performance ever played byZZ Top, at aKnights of Columbus hall in Beaumont on February 10, 1970,[8] though he was working at crosstown 1450KAYC at the time.
KLVI was a pop/top40 music station through the middle 70s but flipped to a country format in 1977. Later, it addedAM stereo using the MotorolaC-QUAM method. In the 1980s, KLVI added more talk programs and reduced the music, as music listening increasingly became the domain of FM radio. By the 1990s, the station made the full transition to talk radio.Clear Channel Communications, based inSan Antonio, acquired KLVI in 2000.[9] Clear Channel later switched its name to iHeartMedia, Inc.
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Al Caldwell hosts the station's local morning show; the remainder of the schedule isnationally syndicated conservative talk shows.