KTHT
| City | Cleveland, Texas |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | East Texas, Houston, Lufkin and Beaumont |
| Branding | Country Legends 97.1 |
| Slogan | Houston's Only Home for The Country Legends |
| Frequency | 97.1 MHz |
| First air date | May 1991 (as KRTK) |
| Format | Classic Country |
| Language(s) | English |
| Audience share | 2.7  (March 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 563 m (1,847 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 65308 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°32′6″N 95°1′4″W / 30.53500°N 95.01778°W |
| Callsign meaning | K Texas HoT (former branding) |
| Former callsigns | KRTK (1991-1995) KEYH-FM (1995-1996) KOND (1996-1997) KRTK (2/1997-9/1997) KKTL (1997-1999) KKTL-FM (1999-2000) |
| Owner |
Cox Radio (Cox Radio, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KGLK, KHPT, KKBQ |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | countrylegends971.com |
KTHT 97.1 "Country Legends 97.1" is a 100,000 watt FM station licensed to Cleveland, TX, that includes service to Houston with its classic country format. The station is owned by Cox Radio and is co-owned with KGLK, KHPT, and KKBQ. It is headquartered out of Suite 2300 at 3 Post Oak Central in the Uptown district in Houston, Texas, United States and has a transmitter site in Sam Houston National Forest in Polk County, Texas.
KTHT programming is simulcast in HD radio on sister station 92.9 KKBQ's HD-3 sub channel.
The station signed on as KRTK in May 1991 to simulcast KRTS and their classical music format to increase the station's coverage in Houston. It was sold four years later after KRTS' request to increase power was approved by the FCC.
In September 1995, 97.1 began simulcasting Regional Mexican/Ranchera-formatted KEYH-AM 850 as KEYH-FM, and later split to flip to its own Regional Mexican format as "Estereo 97", which later became "Que Onda 97" in March 1996.
Under AMFM ownership, it acquired the KKTL calls as "Houston's Talk FM, 97 Talk" in September 1997. In March 199, after the talk format floundered, it was switched to simulcast KTBZ-FM "107-5 The Buzz". It continued simulcasting 107.5 after KTBZ and KLDE ("Oldies 94.5") swapped frequencies in July 2000, the result of an ownership trade-off in the AMFM/Clear Channel merger. Newcomer Cox Radio acquired the 97.1 and 107.5 facilities where KLDE was ultimately moved.
On November 4, 2000, at Noon, KKTL split from the simulcast and flipped to Rhythmic CHR as KTHT "Hot 97.1". The first song on "Hot" was "Party Up" by DMX.
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