High school radio station in Mesquite, Texas
KEOM
(88.5
FM
) is a
non-commercial educational
high school radio
station based in
Mesquite, Texas
. It is operated by the
Mesquite Independent School District
and broadcasts to the greater
Dallas?Fort Worth Metroplex
.
KEOM broadcasts in
HD Radio
.
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History
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The station was founded by Dr. Ralph Poteet, former MISD Superintendent, to present community information in a way not possible via
commercial radio
stations, and to provide MISD students having interest in radio and communications with hands-on radio experience.
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The air staff is primarily made up of students from the five high schools in the city taking radio production classes.
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The station signed on the air September 4, 1984, on 88.3 FM with 3,000 watts on a 250-foot (76 m) tower.
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It moved to 88.5 and increased its power to 61,000 watts in 1992 upon the completion of a new 514-foot-tall (157 m)
City/School Communications Tower
at Mesquite Memorial Stadium.
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Programming
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KEOM airs live broadcasts of high school sports from MISD schools. The 24-hour station also broadcasts music primarily from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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KEOM plays the U.S.
National Anthem
every morning at 7 a.m.
KEOM is one of a few secondary stations containing the North Texas
Emergency Alert System
that sends messages from primaries
WBAP
and
KSCS
.
Comparing KEOM and
KSPF
, its competitor in the Dallas area, the station contains a more enhanced and larger playlist than KSPF, the other Classic Hits station utilizing significantly more repetitions and having a more
power songs
-oriented playlist than KEOM.
Awards and honors
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The station was named "Best Blast from the Past" in the 2007
Dallas Observer
"Best of Dallas" rankings.
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Signal
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Unlike most of the area's FM stations like competitor KSPF, which transmit their signals from
Cedar Hill
,
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KEOM transmits its signal from an area southwest of Mesquite. Its signal is also highly directional, transmitting very little signal directly to the west. Therefore, KEOM's signal is much stronger in most of
Dallas County
as well as the cities in the eastern portion of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex including
Waxahachie
,
McKinney
, and
Terrell
to as far east as
Canton
, but is considerably weaker west of DFW.
See also
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References
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- ^
Nelson, Bob (September 4, 2009).
"Radio/TV Station Call Letter Origins #241"
.
Radio History on the Web
. Archived from
the original
on February 18, 2016
. Retrieved
September 5,
2009
.
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http://hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=10
Archived
2015-11-23 at the
Wayback Machine
HD Radio Guide for Dallas-Ft. Worth
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Goodwyn, Wade (September 28, 2009).
"High School DJs Dial Dallas Back To The 1970s"
.
All Things Considered
. National Public Radio
. Retrieved
September 30,
2009
.
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a
b
c
Selk, Avi (September 4, 2009).
"At 25, Mesquite schools' radio station is older than its student DJs"
.
The Dallas Morning News
. Retrieved
September 5,
2009
.
- ^
"KEOM History"
. KEOM. Archived from
the original
on 2008-05-06
. Retrieved
2008-06-08
.
- ^
"Best Blast from the Past"
.
Dallas Observer
. Retrieved
September 30,
2009
.
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"RadioLocator.com/KLUV"
.
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