KKHH
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| City | Houston, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Houston |
| Branding | 95.7 The Spot |
| Slogan | Your Place. Your Music. Your Way. |
| Frequency | 95.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | October 4, 1959 (as KHUL) |
| Format | Analog/HD1: Adult hits HD2: Dance "Energy 95.7" HD3: CBS Sports Radio 650 simulcast |
| Language(s) | English |
| Audience share | 3.5  (January 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| ERP | 95,000 watts |
| HAAT | 585 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 25449 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′34″N 95°30′36″W / 29.57611°N 95.51000°W |
| Callsign meaning | K K Hot Hits (former branding/format) |
| Former callsigns | KHUL (1959-1966) KIKK-FM (1966-2002) KHJZ (2002-2007) KHJZ-FM (2007-2008) |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (sale to Entercom pending) (CBS Radio Texas Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KHMX, KIKK, KILT, KILT-FM, KLOL |
| Webcast |
Listen Live Energy 95.7 Webstream |
| Website |
957thespot.cbslocal.com Energy 95.7 |
KKHH ("95.7 The Spot") is an adult hits radio station in Houston, Texas, broadcasting at 95.7 MHz, under the ownership of CBS Radio. Its studios are located in the Greenway Plaza district, and its transmitter is located in Missouri City, Texas.
KKHH signed on the air as easy listening KHUL on 95.7 at 7 a.m., October 4, 1959. KHUL carried a jazz format and billed itself as "Cool, refreshing radio". KHUL was the first FM in the market to operate with a 24-hour schedule.
In 1966, the station was bought by Leroy J. Gloger, who owned Pasadena daytime only AM country music station KIKK. Gloger requested the station's call letters be changed to KIKK-FM and began to simulcast the AM's country format as "KIKK 96 FM" (KIKK pronounced as "kick").
After album rock station KILT-FM flipped to country in 1981, the station saw fierce competition throughout the 1980s and early 1990s from the KILT combo. More competition came when KKBQ switched from easy country to a top 40 country approach in 1992. KIKK became KILT's sister station in late 1993, and KIKK struggled trying different variations on the format, including going from mainstream country to a more current-heavy approach in September 1994, then going head to head with KKBQ as "Young Country 95.7" by early 1997, and eventually rebranding as just "95.7 KIKK-FM" by September 2000.
At Noon on November 4, 2002, KIKK-FM flipped from its long running country format to Smooth Jazz as "95-7 The Wave", with the KHJZ call letters being adopted on November 7.
On March 12, 2008, at 5:37 p.m., KHJZ began stunting with a loop of "Don't Stop" by Freestyler and "Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna, while promoting an announcement to come the next day at 3 p.m.. At that time, the station flipped to Top 40/CHR, branded as "Hot 95.7." The first song on "Hot" was "Hot In Herre" by Nelly. The format used an interactive approach and positioned its Rhythmic hit-flavored direction in between KBXX and KRBE. At first, because of its choice of direction, Mediabase had placed KHJZ on its Rhythmic reporter panel, but moved it over to the Top 40/CHR panel as its playlist started playing non-Rhythmic fare. The KKHH call letters were adopted on April 1, 2008.
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