KVIL

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KVIL (103.7 MHz, Alt 103,7 ) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Highland Park and Dallas, Texas, serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex at North Texas. This station is owned by Entercom. This station studio is located along the North Central Expressway in Uptown Dallas, and the transmitter site is on Cedar Hill on West Belt Line Road. The station is branded as "Alt 103.7" and airs an alternative rock format.

KVIL broadcast in HD. Its HD-2 signal carries the format of Smooth Jazz, known as "The Oasis."

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On August 14, 1961, KVIL-FM was first signed in the air, as a sister station to AM 1150 KVIL (now KBDT). Since the AM station is the only station during the day, KVIL-FM is used to simulcast the middle AM â€‹â€‹personality of the street music format all the time.

The original location of the studio is located at Highland Park Village Shopping Center (hence the VIL ). The address is 4152 Mockingbird Lane on Preston Road, overlooking the Dallas Country Club golf course. In 1962 the owner/manager was John Coyle with his program director Dillard Carerra. The station has an incredible high power of 119,000 watts in full stereo. (Electricity has been reduced to 99,000 watts, due to increased antenna height.)

Exceptional audio engineering is channeled through a large audio mixer with slider controls using German silver rheostats. The audio phase was a problem at the time. Capitol Records, for example, uses inverse phasing that prevents anything Beatles records to play, unless it's a monong. The reverse phase simply empties the audio track to distorted distortion.

"Hours of singing time" is one of the first digital breakthroughs - actually marriage of digital and analog technology. The audio clock is recorded on 1/4 "tape in stereo that is played on AMPEX recorders in individual segments, by jingle singers at PAMS in Dallas.The project is huge, involving musicians, singers and recording engineers who are recorded every minute at 24 Hours at least in two versions, to be played by the station in the right minute.The clock is sequentially synchronized to the individual tape segment.When the DJ presses the button, the audience hears "This is nine forty-three in Kayville Jam, KVIL" or imaginary variations of such witty pantun - and in stereo.The pronunciation of "KVIL" as "Kayville" is probably the most famous example of station call letters that are actually sung or pronounced as a word.

The KVIL logo is one of sophistication - a feminine hand drawing with a bracelet. The logo was all over Dallas on billboards, game books, and most of the media imaginable.

Short-lived top 40 format

KVIL is the first station in Dallas-Ft. A valuable area for broadcasting Top 40 on FM and stereo. Initial efforts in April 1967 were bold, offering a good personality and some interesting programs including the first Dallas broadcast of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, played in its entirety on the night of its release.

The 1967 to 1969 effort to take KLIF (which was then very popular) failed because FM was still a relatively new format and only a small percentage of people had FM radio. FM was not even a "standard" feature in the original equipment car radio until the late 1970s even though it had been an option since the early 1960s. In addition, KVIL's AM broadcast (now KBDT) only operates during the day when nighttime is critical to the survival of the top 40 stations in the rankings. The failing station suffered in several ways, including employees who escaped with records (perhaps where they were most likely to be paid).

Adult contemporary age

The owner of KVIL from 1968 to 1973 was a Highland Park socialist, James B. Francis, Robert D. Hanna, and John Ryman. In early 1969, KVIL started broadcasting under new management and spent several weeks just broadcasting music, no ads except a short announcement by Ron Chapman, telling the listeners what was in store. And this time it happened as planned. Ron's expertise in broadcasting and popularity, along with the increasing popularity of FM stereo, brought the station to fame. In 1973, KVIL was sold to Fairbanks Broadcasting and Chapman remained a morning DJ for many years afterwards. KVIL hired Mike Selden from KLIF and installed Bill Gardner and Jack Schell in the midday. This dynamic formation along with programming insights from consultant George Johns and top management directions from Jim Hilliard and Chapman's committee for marketing and promotion began to raise KVIL ratings steadily.

Over the years during the 1970s and 1980s, it was the top station in the market. It even puts a 90-minute morning show on KXTX-TV for a week in May each year, to feature extraordinary action like a camel race in the African desert. During the 1990s, he spent several years as a major station for the Dallas Cowboys.

The KVIL programming is simulated on FM signals (103,7) and AM (1150). KVIL (AM) was signed as the only day station in 1960, and KVIL-FM was added a year later. However, despite attempts to take on the legendary KLIF with the Top 40 music format in 1967, both AM and FM drew most of the audience that listened until 1969, when the station hired Chapman (better known by KLIF listeners as "Irving" Harrigan ") to perform a morning show.At the same time, KVIL implements a unique music format for the time, a cross between Top 40 and MOR which will later be called "Adult Contemporary." The station is intended to appeal to grown-up listeners with KLIF by projecting the type the same "playing performance" of the Top 40 stations. KVIL first completed Dallas/Fort Worth's top 10 Arbitron rankings in 1974 (the year after Arbitron merged Dallas and Fort Worth into one market) and topped the list of ranks for the first time in the fall of 1976 with Chapman in the morning and cast supporting cast, Larry Dixon and Bruce Buchanan (Jim Edwards) in the middle of the day, and Mike Selden in the PM drive.

In 1987, Infinity Broadcasting bought KVIL AM/FM.

AM 1150 adopted a KVIX call and programmed a separate AC format from KVIL-FM for a short time in the mid-1980s. The station now operates on AM 1160 as a conservative KBDT talk station.

In September 1998, KVIL changed its name to "Lite Rock 103,7", which was later changed to "103,7 Lite FM" in December 2005.

The "Sunday Jazz Brunch" hosted by Tempe Lindsey (formerly of KOAI "107.5 The Oasis") was removed from the program on September 27, 2009, and replaced with regular programming.

Gene and Julie Gates brought KVIL to the first place in the morning rating for the first time in 13 years.

KVIL New Voice

On May 2, 2013, KVIL dropped the "Lite FM" branding supporting the use of summons and repositioning them as "Best Variety... 90s, 2K & Today", and marketed as "New Voice from 103.7 KVIL "to attract a new generation of listeners, making it the first format change in less than 45 years for the station. Gene & amp; Julie will be replaced by Tony Zazza and Julie Fisk. Zazza & amp; Fisk was released from the station in October 2014.

In mid-November, starting in 2001, KVIL will switch to the all-Christmas format that runs through Christmas Day. For 2011, the AC format returns on December 27 instead of December 26th. With a repositioning format in May 2013, the all-christmas format has moved to the hit classic KLUV sister station, which begins on November 15, 2013.

Over the years, KVIL has become a Dallas affiliate of Delilah's nightly love song program. In early January 2014, the show was canceled without a public announcement of the change until January 21, when Blake Powers took over as night dj for the station. Byron Harrell, director of CBS Radio programming in Dallas, told DFW.com in an email to the change, "We respect the talent and service level Delilah gave KVIL audiences for years, but it's time for a change in 103,7 as we continue to ponder the sound KVIL and focus our attention on the Dallas-Fort Worth metro. "Months later, KVIL began leaning towards Adult Top 40. They also dropped the slogan" 90s, 2K and Today ", along with the Throwback Thursday program that allows listeners to vote Their favorite "throwback", which included several songs from the late 1980s.

Despite the retooling of this format, KVIL is still registered in adult adult format by Mediabase until May 2, 2014, when they move KVIL to the "Hot AC" panel in full, leaving the Dallas/Fort Worth market directly without Adult Contemporary station (though the KLAK at McKinney is the only "AC" station serving the northern and eastern areas of the Metroplex) until iHeartMedia officially launched the AC format on KDGE as "Star 102.1" on December 26, 2016. The sole competitor in Hot AC era is iHeartMedia's KDMX.

It should be noted that KVIL and sister AC KEZK-FM in St. Louis shares the same logo.

More Hits, Fewer Ads

KVIL switched to a CHR-inclined format, branded only as "103.7" on August 1, 2016, effectively removing the KVIL brand and adding the slogan "More Hits, Less Commercial", which states it has 50 minutes of music every hour. This follows the 'MoreHits1037.com' URL registration. On October 5, 2016, Mediabase moved KVIL to an effective Top 40/CHR panel with the October 14, 2016 edition, marking the station's return to the format for the first time in 47 years.

Amp 103,7

On January 18, 2017, at 7 am, after playing "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots, KVIL changed its name again, this time as "Amp 103.7", adopting a moniker from CBS's sister station KAMP in Los Angeles, WODS in Boston, WQMP in Orlando, WDZH in Detroit and WBMP in New York City. The first song that plays on "Amp" is "Closer" by The Chainsmokers. Unlike other CBS CHS, KVIL has heavy adult lean, and is basically a mix of Mainstream Top 40 and Adult Top 40 formats, similar to the WWMX sisters in Baltimore. It competed directly with KHKS iHeartMedia, belonging to Cumulus's KLIF-FM (ironically, KVIL, for its short duration as a Top 40 station in the late 1960s, competed with AM KLIF stations), and to some extent, iHeartMedia-owned KDMX. Like the Top 40 KVIL format in its first incarnation, Amp did not last long.

Alt 103.7

On February 2nd 2017, CBS Radio announced it will join Entercom. The merger was approved on November 9, 2017, and was completed on the 17th. At 10 am that day, after playing "Sorry" by Justin Bieber, KVIL flipped to alternative rocks, branded as "Alt 103.7". This brought the format back into the market after KDGE dropped the format exactly one year earlier for the day (incidentally, both KDGE and KVIL trade the format in a year). The first song on "Alt" is "Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys. This will compete with iHeartMedia-owned KEGL as their mainstream rock format is a lean-to-alternative, along with Texas AAA Public Broadcasting alternative-leaning KKXT station. A similar move also took place in New York with the WBMP sister station dropping their CHR format to alternatives on the same day (following the Entercom station trend that switched to the "Alt" branding that would later include WQMP - later renamed in response to the branding conflict - and KITS).

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KVIL HD2

When KVIL started broadcasting the second channel on HD Radio, KVIL launched "Chick Rock" (Rock for Women) at 103.7 HD2 . Two years later, the channel HD2 then broadcasted Christian alternative rock music as "Rise". It also broadcasts Christmas music from November 1 to mid November, when switching to AC KVIL programming when the main KVIL station broadcast Christmas music from mid-November to 25 December each year. By retooling the format in May 2013 at the KVIL main station, this programming arrangement has been discontinued, leaving KVIL-HD2 to merely air the "Rise" format. However, in July 2014, CBS Radio in Dallas, along with a North Texas Honda dealer introduced a new one-off seasonal format for the summer that was identified as "NTX Honda Fever Radio". Various playlist hits stations are a mixture of diverse classic hit and adult top 40 songs with 'Freddy Fever' as DJs.

On October 7, 2015, KVIL HD2 is now broadcasting the smooth jazz format as "The Oasis", previously at KMVK 107.5 HD2.