KMJQ

Infobox Radio Station


name = KMJQ
city = Houston, Texas
area = Greater Houston
airdate = 1978
frequency = 102.1 (MHz) HD Radio
format = Urban Adult Contemporary
owner = Radio One
licensee = Radio One Licenses, LLC
erp = 100,000 watts
haat = 524 meters
branding = "Majic 102.1"
slogan = "Houston's R&B Leader"
class = C
facility_id = 11971
webcast = [http://wm-eon.vitalstreamcdn.com/live_eonwmss_vitalstream_com_radioone-houston-kmjq-fm Listen Live]
website = [http://www.kmjq.com/ www.kmjq.com]
callsign_meaning = K MaJic Q
sister_stations = KBXX, KROI

KMJQ, "Majic 102.1" is a Houston radio station with a Urban Adult Contemporary musical format. It is owned by Radio One.

102.1 signed on in the early 1960's as KMSC for "Manned Spacecraft Center". The format was easy listening music and wall to wall coverage of space launches. The channel had been asigned to ALvin, Texas. The station was licensed to Clear Lake City, a once independent suburban town near Houston.

The station changed to KLYX or "Clicks" as an easy listening station. In 1975 the station became an affiliate of the NBC national "News and Information Service" NIS. This aired from 1975 to the end of the service in early 1977. The all news operation originated from then new studios in Houston. The station operated under a waiver of the FCC rules known as "Arizona Waiver" after a Glendale, AZ station then owned by Arizona Broadcasting Corporation. Back when the main studio of a station had to be inside the city of license, the Arizona Waiver allowed a station to air it's recorded, non-network shows from an 'auxiliary' studio (in this case more convenient Houston) and then the live local public affairs shows would air from a city of license studio. This worked well with the easy listening format, as 94% of the station was recorded music and commercials. The 6% news and non entertainment items could originate from the Main studio. This was expanded to let the station broadcast it's local and non network shows from the Clear Lake studios.

In 1979 the city of license was annexed by Houston, and Clear Lake City ceased to exist. The station changed city of license. In 1982 the transmitter was moved from downtown Houston (Shell Plaza tower farm, where it had been since 1973) to the new shared tower at Missouri City.

KMJQ began broadcasting in 1978 as Houston's first Urban radio station on the FM dial. It began as "Majic 102" and in the early '90s was known as 102 Jamz. In 1991, KBXX went on the air with Hip Hop and R&B in the playlists. When KBXX and KMJQ became co-owned in 1994, KMJQ modified its format to Urban Adult Contemporary and changed its branding to Majic 102, The Majic Is Back!, playing mostly R&B Hits and Oldies. In 2003, the name was modified adding "point 1" to the moniker, thus Majic 102.1 to avoid frequency confusion with Beaumont, Texas Urban radio station KTCX "Magic 102.5".

Today, KMJQ is home to the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show and Mo'nique in the afternoon.

Callsign History

*KMSC
*KLYX
*KMJQ - 1977

External links

* [http://www.kmjq.com/ Majic 102.1]
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