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| Broadcast area | Little Rock–Central Arkansas |
| Frequency | 1380kHz |
| Branding | Rejoice 105.5 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Gospel music |
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| History | |
First air date | April 19, 1957; 68 years ago (1957-04-19) |
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Call sign meaning | disambiguation of "Streets" (previous branding) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 665 |
| Class | B |
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Transmitter coordinates | 34°52′49.00″N92°14′0.10″W / 34.8802778°N 92.2333611°W /34.8802778; -92.2333611 |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | rejoicelittlerock.com |
KZTS (1380AM) is acommercial radio station inLittle Rock, Arkansas (licensed toNorth Little Rock in theLittle Rockradio market). The station is owned bySalem Media Group, and broadcasts agospel musicradio format.
Programming issimulcast on atranslator station to allow Little Rock listeners to hear the station on FM. K288EZ broadcasts at 105.5 MHz and K277DP broadcasts at 103.3 MHz.
The stationsigned on as KNLR on April 19, 1957.[2] Thecall sign reflected thecity of license, North Little Rock. It was adaytimer and was owned by the Arkansas Valley Broadcasting Company. KNLR was powered at 1,000 watts in the daytime but had tosign-off at sunset to avoid interfering with other radio stations on1380 AM. In 1959, it changed its call sign to KDXE to reflect its "Dixie"-stylecountry music format.
In the 1980s, the station got authorization from theFederal Communications Commission to increase daytime power to 5,000 watts and add nighttime authorization, at 2,500 watts. In 1986, the station switched to achildren's radio format as KPAL.[3] It later became anaffiliate ofRadio Disney as KRNN on April 1, 1999.[4]
In 2003, the station returned to the call sign KDXE and flipped to asports radio format, as an affiliate ofESPN Radio. On December 18, 2008, radio industry website100000watts.com reported that KDXE had gonesilent, but no explanation was given for this.
On November 3, 2009, the radio station once again returned to the air, this time as atalk radio station, featuringnationally syndicated shows includingMichael Savage,Laura Ingraham, Dr.Laura Schlessinger,Jerry Doyle,Rusty Humphries andPhil Hendrie.
Mark Nolte served as general manager and co-broker with Patrick Communications to complete the sale to NC Communications.
Alocal marketing agreement (LMA) to program the station began on or about January 1, 2010. The station was sold to NC Communications on December 31, 2010, with Duane Nickols serving as general manager. Nickols, a longtime veteran broadcaster, continues to consult on marketing and programming for the group part-time from his home.
NC Communications bought 105.5 FM to serve as an FMtranslator station.
On January 31, 2014, KDXE changed their format tourban adult contemporary, branded as "Hot 105.5".[5]
On April 1, 2018, NC Communications made an exchange withSalem Communications. The station at AM 1380 changed its branding to "Streetz 105.5", and its call sign to KZTS on April 8, 2018. The original KZTS, at 101.1, was sold to Salem Communications to becometalk radio station KDXE. The sale to Salem was consummated on July 26, 2018.
On September 1, 2018, KZTS changed their format from urban contemporary to gospel, branded as "Rejoice 105.5".[6]