KMJQ
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| City | Houston, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Houston |
| Branding | "Majic 102.1" |
| Slogan |
The Real Sound of H-Town Your Favorite R&B Hits and Throwbacks |
| Frequency | 102.1 (MHz) (also on HD Radio) 102.1-HD2 Urban Gospel |
| First air date | 1961 (as KAJC-FM Clear Lake City, Texas) 1978 (as Majic 102 KMJQ) |
| Format | Urban Adult Contemporary |
| Language(s) | English |
| Audience share | 7.0 (Holiday 2016, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 524 meters |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 11971 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′27″N 95°29′37″W / 29.57417°N 95.49361°W |
| Callsign meaning | K MaJiQ (Play on the word "Magic") |
| Former callsigns | KAJC-FM (1961-1964) KMSC (1964-1975) KLYX (1975-1978) |
| Owner |
Radio One (Radio One Licenses, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KBXX, KROI |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website |
myhoustonmajic.com praisehouston.com (HD2) |
KMJQ, (102.1 FM), is an Urban Adult Contemporary-formatted radio station located in Houston, Texas. Owned by Radio One, it is one of the most well-programmed heritage urban contemporary stations in the U.S. and has a strong listenership repertoire among listeners in Houston. Co-owned with KBXX and KROI, its studios are located in the Greenway Plaza district, and its 100 kW transmitter is based outside Missouri City, Texas. It is one of the high-ranking stations in Greater Houston, commanding a Top 5 position according to Arbitron, with KMJQ sometimes reaching number-one on many reports.
The station originally went on-the-air in 1961 as KAJC-FM with studios and transmitter in Alvin, Texas, a Houston suburb. At a time when FM typically aired "elevator music", it was the first FM station in the Houston area to broadcast an adult contemporary and hourly news format. In 1962 and 1963 it became the first FM station in Texas to win major news awards from the UPI Texas Broadcasters' Association, including story of the year and best news coverage in population class.
In 1964, the station was sold, changed its call letters to KMSC, and was moved to Clear Lake City on Galveston Bay. Styled the "Voice of the Manned Spacecraft Center", it broadcast news about the space program and easy listening music.
The station call letters changed to KLYX or "Clicks" as an easy listening station. In 1975, it became an affiliate of NBC Radio's national News and Information Service. 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, Arizona 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 its 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 its local and non network shows from the Clear Lake studios.
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