KJKK
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| City | Dallas, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex |
| Branding | 100.3 Jack FM |
| Slogan | "80's 90's and More" "The Station Everyone Can Agree On" |
| Frequency | 100.3 (MHz) (also on HD Radio) 100.3 HD-2 for "The Strip" (Standards) 100.3 HD-3 for Classic Country |
| First air date | 1965 (as KBOX-FM) |
| Format | Adult Hits |
| Language(s) | English |
| Audience share | 4.0  (January 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| ERP | 97,000 watts |
| HAAT | 574.2 meters (1,884 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 63779 |
| Callsign meaning | K JacK K |
| Former callsigns | KBOX-FM (1965-1973) KTLC (1973-1976) KMEZ (1976-1988) KJMZ (1988-1995) KRBV (1995-2004) |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (CBS Radio Texas Inc.) |
| Sister stations |
KLUV, KMVK, KRLD, KRLD-FM, KVIL also part of CBS Corp. cluster: TV stations KTVT and KTXA |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | jackontheweb.com |
KJKK (100.3 FM, "Jack FM") is an American radio station in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. It broadcasts an adult hits music format. KJKK is owned by CBS Radio and the broadcast license is held by CBS Radio Texas Inc. The station's studios are located along North Central Expressway in Uptown Dallas and the transmitter site is in Cedar Hill.
KJKK started as KBOX-FM ("K-Box"), playing easy listening and occasional jazz music in 1965. Although it was the sister station of KBOX-AM 1480 (now KBXD), a Top 40 and then country music giant during the 1960s and 1970s, the two stations never simulcasted until 1982, when AM 1480 became KMEZ-AM. In 1973, the call letters were changed to KTLC (meaning Tender Loving Care for your ears) while maintaining its easy listening format. Three years later, the callsign was changed once again to KMEZ and carried the new branding EZ 100, while still maintaining the easy listening format and was a flagship station for SMU College football.
In 1988, KMEZ was purchased by Summit Broadcasting. After the purchase, KMEZ moved to 107.5 FM, replacing KDLZ. After two days of stunting with "Jam On It" by Newcleus, the station changed formats to CHR/Urban (also known as a "CHUrban" format, which is the predecessor of rhythmic contemporary) and changed its call letters to KJMZ and branding to The All New 100.3 Jamz at 12:01 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1988. During its tenure as KJMZ, on-air personality Russ Parr got his start in the radio business before going to Washington, DC to jumpstart his syndicated morning show, which, at one time, aired on KBFB. In 1995, Granum Communications (later bought out by Infinity/CBS Radio) bought KJMZ and KMEZ (now KMVK), and tweaked the format to Classic and Modern R&B (Urban AC) and renamed the station as KRBV, V100 on September 1, 1995; the KJMZ calls were picked up by a station in Las Vegas (now KMXB). KRBV was one of four stations (the others being KXTX-TV, KOAI and KYNG) that fell victim to the Cedar Hill tower collapse on October 12, 1996. Three workers were killed and one worker was injured when a gust of wind caught the gin pole being used for construction of a new antenna for KXTX. After the collapse, the stations scrambled to get back on air, and later ended up using an auxiliary site for many months, though at a much reduced power output. Because of this, KRBV never returned to its glory days and the ratings sunk, most of it due to philosophical differences in direction of programming for KRBV.
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