KVRK

Infobox Radio station
name = KVRK


city = Sanger, Texas
area = Denton/McKinney/Fort Worth/Gainesville/
Sherman/Denison/Southern Oklahoma
branding = "89.7 Power FM"
slogan = "The Christian ROCK Station"
airdate = 1999
frequency = 89.7 MHz
format = Christian rock
power =
erp = 14,000 Watts
haat = 518 meters
class = C1
facility_id = 76285
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = KTPW (1999-2004)
owner = Research Educational Foundation, Incorporated
webcast = [http://www.christiannetcast.com/listen/player.asp?station=897power-fm Listen Live]
website = http://www.897powerfm.com/
affiliations =

KVRK is a Christian rock music formatted radio station located in Dallas, Texas. It is owned and operated by Research Educational Foundation, Inc. (a non-profit entity) and broadcasts on 89.7 FM. As a non-profit, it annually hosts two fund-raising drives to remain on the air.

KVRK advertises itself as "Power FM," "89.7 Power FM," and "The Christian Rock Station." It broadcasts at 14,000 Watts from a tower in Sanger, Texas.

History

After a two year stay in Florida, Eldred and Raye Nell Thomas, returned to the Dallas area and decided to start a Christian radio station. Through other business interests, Mr. Thomas learned of KVTT-FM, an existing station that operated as an extension of Elkins Institute, a broadcasting training facility. With retirement looming, Bill Elkins, the founder and president of the Elkins Institute, wanted to find someone to continue with the station he had operated since 1950. In March 1976, Mr. Thomas became the president of Research Educational Foundation, Inc. and General Manager of KVTT-FM.

In 1994, KVTT applied to the FCC to begin broadcasting a full-time Christian rock station for the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Around the same time, 1995, the station began to target the area youth with their music programing in the evenings with [http://897powerfm.com/personal_chris.html Power Mix] on weeknights, [http://897powerfm.com/personal_rick.html Youth Wake] (later Lighthouse 21) on Saturday nights and [http://www.mungleshow.com Spin 180] on Sunday nights.

It took over 4 years for the application to be processed and granted by the FCC. A license was granted to broadcast at 14,000 watts as KTPW and transmit from a tower north of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Sanger, Texas on Jan. 18, 1999. The new station began broadcasting July 27, 1999.

In 2004 REF Inc. released their responsibility to KVTT and is responsible only for Power FM.

The KVRK call letters were established June 14, 2004.

Power FM also a TV show on JCTV called "FM".

Eldred and Raye Nell Thomas are both deceased.

External links

* [http://www.897powerfm.com/ 89.7 Power FM]
* [http://www.spin180.net/index2.html/ Spin180 ]
* [http://www.jctv.org/flashindex.php/ JCTV]

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