KLBJ-AM
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| City | Austin, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area |
| Branding | News Radio KLBJ |
| Slogan | "Austin's 24 Hour News Station" |
| Frequency | 590 kHz |
| Translator(s) | 99.7 K259AJ (Austin) |
| First air date | July 2, 1939 as KTBC |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65791 |
| Callsign meaning | K Lyndon Baines Johnson |
| Former callsigns | KTBC (1939-1973) |
| Affiliations |
Premiere Networks Westwood One Network Fox News Radio KTBC-TV |
| Owner |
Emmis Communications (Emmis Austin Radio Broadcasting Company, L.P.) |
| Sister stations | KBPA, KGSR, KLZT, KLBJ-FM, KROX-FM |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
KLBJ (590 kHz) is a commercial AM Radio station licensed to Austin, Texas. It carries a News/Talk Radio format. KLBJ is owned by Emmis Communications of Indianapolis, Indiana but once was owned by the family of President Lyndon Baines Johnson and still carries his initials as its call letters. On October 30, 2009, 590 AM began simulcasting its programming on FM translator K259AJ 99.7 MHz. The station has studios along Interstate 35 in North Austin, and the transmitter site is located east of Austin near the Colorado River in unincorporated Travis County. KLBJ 590 operates at 5,000 watts daytime/1,000 watts nighttime.
KLBJ carries both local and nationally syndicated programs. National shows include The Rush Limbaugh Show, Dana Loesch, Clyde Lewis, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, America in The Morning, The Kim Komando Show and Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont. Some weekend hours are paid Brokered programming.
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