KXNG
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| City | Houston, Texas |
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| Broadcast area | Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land |
| Branding | 91.7 NGEN Radio |
| Slogan | "Powering a World of Good!" |
| Frequency | 91.7 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | K217GB 91.3 MHz (Houston) K258BZ 99.5 MHz (Sugar Land) |
| Repeater(s) | 89.3 KSBJ HD2 |
| First air date |
91.7: July 30, 1971 (license, as KTRU) August 1, 2016 (as KXNG) 91.3: October 10, 2000 (as K218DA at 91.5) 99.5: June 17, 1993 (as K259AB at 99.7) |
| Format | Christian CHR |
| Language(s) | English |
| ERP |
91.7: 50,000 watts 91.3: 99 watts 99.5: 99 watts |
| HAAT |
91.7: 150 meters (490 ft) 91.3: 56.8 m (186 ft) 99.5: 143.5 m (471 ft) |
| Class |
91.7: C2 91.3: D 99.5: D |
| Facility ID |
91.7: 72685 91.3: 93168 99.5: 65769 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°3′54″N 95°16′10″W / 30.06500°N 95.26944°W |
| Callsign meaning | KX NGEN Radio |
| Former callsigns | KTRU (7/30/1971–5/9/2011) KUHA (5/9/2011–7/15/2016) |
| Owner | KSBJ Educational Foundation |
| Sister stations | KSBJ, KXBJ |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | ngenradio.com |
KXNG is a non commercial radio station serving the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area. It broadcasts on a frequency of 91.7 Megahertz on the FM dial. It also rebroadasts on 2 translators, 91.3 in the Medical Center, and 99.5 in Southwest Houston, Missouri City, and Sugar Land/Fort Bend County. KXNG programming is also available on the secondary digital channel of parent station 89.3 KSBJ. The station is owned and operated by the KSBJ Educational Foundation. KXNG formerly operated as a Classical music station owned and operated by the University of Houston System from 2011 to 2016, under the KUHA call letters. The low ratings and financial losses of the Classical format led the University of Houston to sell the station to the KSBJ Educational Foundation, who launched the current Christian CHR/Hip Hop format in 2016.
KXNG, along with sister stations KSBJ and KXBJ, are the only full powered stations operating at 50 kilowatts or greater in the Greater Houston area owned and operated by the KSBJ Educational Foundation. The ministry also owns several translators and lower class full power facilities throughout southeast Texas.
The station first signed on in 1971 as KTRU, operated by Rice University. Studios were located in Sid Richardson College on the Rice campus. Initially broadcasting at 10 watts, the students engineered an increase to 340 watts in April 1974 and 650 watts in October 1980. The broadcast day also increased from the initial evening-only hours to 10 to 12 hours a day on weekdays and most of the weekend. In 1981, the station expanded its broadcast hours to 24 hours per day. In 1987, a major expansion of the student center was completed and the station's studios were relocated to the 2nd floor of the Ley Student Center.
In 1991, the station's transmitter was moved to the north of Houston, increased in power to 50,000 watts and presented with an operating endowment by Mike Stude, the owner of Houston-area radio station KRTS (now KROI) and an heir of the founders of Brown & Root. This move enabled KRTS to increase from 3,000 watts to 50,000 watts without interfering with the station's signal.
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