| Broadcast area | Haynesville, Louisiana |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 105.5MHz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Defunct (wasurban contemporary) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Hawkins Broadcasting Company |
| History | |
First air date | September 1984 (1984-9) |
Last air date | 1998 (1998) |
Call sign meaning | From sister-stationWWHN |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 26464 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 2,900watts |
| HAAT | 144 m (472 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 33°3′13″N93°10′27″W / 33.05361°N 93.17417°W /33.05361; -93.17417 |
KWHN-FM was a radio station at105.5 FM inHaynesville, Louisiana, with transmitter located inColumbia County, Arkansas. The station broadcast between 1984 and 1998.
On November 3, 1981, J.P. Robillard and his Ladybug Broadcasting Company, owners ofKLUV (1580 AM), were granted a construction permit to build a sister FM station in Haynesville. The station signed on the air as KLVU-FM in 1984, after the stations engaged in a call letter swap with Dallas radio station KLVU, which becameKLUV.[1] The station offered aneasy listening format[2] when it launched that September.[3]
In 1990, KLVU-AM-FM was sold for $200,000[4] to the Hawkins Broadcasting Company, headed by Ray Hawkins. Hawkins ownedWWHN in the Chicago area, and the proceeds from the operation of WWHN subsidized the acquisition of the stations in Shreveport.[5] Hawkins returned the FM station to air asurban contemporary KWHN-FM in 1991, givingKMJJ-FM its first competition in the format,[6] though the station was a rimshot with a poor signal in Shreveport proper.
The station had its FCC license deleted in 1998 for failure to renew.