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KROI is a radio station serving the Greater Houston market. Licensed to Seabrook, Texas and owned by Radio One, the station broadcasts a classic hip hop format branded as ''Boom 92''. The station's studios are located in Greenway Plaza and the transmitter is based near Liverpool (south of Alvin) in unincorporated Brazoria County. It is one of three Radio One-owned stations serving Houston, alongside KBXX and KMJQ. The station began as a top 40 station upon its launch on 1983, but later shifted to classical and adult contemporary formats prior to its acquisition by Radio One, after which it became an urban gospel station. In October 2011, KROI flipped to an all-news news format; however, by October 2014, plagued by poor ratings and large financial losses, Radio One flipped KROI back to a music-oriented format with the launch of ''Boom 92''—a format focusing on classic hip-hop music. ==History== The 92.1 FM frequency signed on the air in September 1983 with a CHR format as KZRQ "Z92". The station, which was only a 3000 watt at 300 foot Class A, took heavy shots against its CHR neighbor on the dial, KKBQ "93Q" (which is a 100,000 watt Class C at 2000 feet) and even had a song parody of then hit, Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" called "Zoobusters" that poked fun of KKBQ's Q-Zoo morning show. The station also claimed to be the first station to play CDs and the world's first all-digital station. By the fall of 1984, KZRQ was gone, as the station flipped to a beautiful music format with the KYND callsign (ironically, KKBQ-FM's previous incarnation). Later, the station was known as KRTS with a classical music format. KRTS was created to fill the void when KLEF (94.5 FM), flipped from classical to adult contemporary as KJYY. KRTS finally got upgrades in the 1980s to a C2 (500 feet and 50,000 watts) at the intersection of US 59 and Texas 288 and then finally as a Class C1 (100,000 watts at 1000 feet) in the 1990s. It currently is a C1 license (though at lower ERP) on the 2000 foot Liverpool tower, close to 107.5 KGLK's tower. Radio One purchased KRTS in 2004, changed its calls to KROI, and flipped the station to a new short-lived Regional Mexican format as "La Mera Mera". When that was unsuccessful, its owners, which mainly specialize in Urban radio formatted station ownership (with a majority African-American listener base), flipped it one more time to an urban gospel format branded as "Praise 92.1". KROI was the flagship of the nationally syndicated Yolanda Adams Morning Show, which debuted March 2007. Outside of that, it was mainly jockless throughout the day except for several specialized programs on the weekends. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KROI」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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