KWTX-DT Channel 10, KWTX 97.5-FM, KWTX-AM 1230, & WACO-FM 99.9 -- Moody TX USA
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N 31° 20.260 W 097° 18.634
14R E 660723 N 3468257
Three radio stations and a TV station broadcast from this remote tower on the prairie near Moody TX
Waymark Code: WMXJXK
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/21/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member CADS11
Views: 2

KWTX-TV built this tower in 1955 to serve its TV and radio stations. Fellow FM radio station WACO-FM was added as a tenant on the tower at some point in the 1990s, when it moved its transmitter site from downtown Waco.

From Wikipedia: (visit link)

"KWTX-TV

Waco/Temple/Killeen, Texas
United States
City Waco, Texas

Branding
News 10
The CW Central Texas (DT2)
Slogan The Breaking News and Weather Authority

Channels Digital: 10 (VHF)
Virtual: 10 (PSIP)

Subchannels
10.1 CBS
10.2 The CW

Affiliations CBS (1956–present)

Owner Gray Television
(Gray Television Licensee, LLC)

First air date April 3, 1955 (62 years ago)

Call letters' meaning Killeen/Waco, TeXas

Sister station(s)
KBTX-TV
KOSA-TV (Odessa/Midland)
KXII (Sherman, TX/Ada, OK)

Former channel number(s)
Analog: 10 (VHF, 1955–2009)
Digital: 53 (UHF, 2001–2009)

Former affiliations
Independent (April–September 1955)
ABC (1955–1983, secondary from 1956)
UPN (DT2, 2001–2006)

Transmitter power 39 kW

Height 554.9 m (1,821 ft)

Facility ID 35903

Transmitter coordinates 31°19'19.2 N 97°19'3 W"

And also from Wikipedia:

"KWTX-FM (97.5 FM) is a commercial Top 40 (CHR) radio station in Waco, Texas. Branded on air as "#1 Hit Music 97-5 FM", the station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc..

KWTX-FM shares its callsign with talk radio formatted sister station KWTX (1230 AM) as well as CBS television affiliate KWTX-TV (Channel 10), owned by Gray Television.

Past morning shows include: " Darren and Chrissy in the morning" with Darren "Taylor" Prater and Chrissy Donaldson. Patrick "Flash Phillips" Davis. Jay Charles

Other past jocks include: Jeff Miles (now doing mornings in Boston). Lama, Tamme Taylor, Jen Austin, Kramer, Josh Reno."
Call signs/Frequencies/Channels/Broadcaster:
KWTX-DT Channel 10 KWTX 97.5-FM KWTX-AM 1230 WACO-FM 99.9


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Backup transmitter tower/antenna: no

Legacy transmitter tower/antenna: no

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