KBED
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Broadcast area | Beaumont-Port Arthur area |
| [[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | 1510 kHz |
| Branding | Sports Radio Beaumont |
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| LanguageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| Format | Sports |
| Affiliations | Infinity Sports Network |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| 48917 | |
| Class | D |
| Power | 5,000 watts day |
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KBED (1510 AM; branded as Sports Radio Beaumont) was a radio station serving the Beaumont-Port Arthur area with a sports format. It was under ownership of Cumulus Media; until going silent in 2025, it simulcast with sister station KIKR in Beaumont, Texas. Its studios were located on South Eleventh Street in Beaumont and its transmitter was located south of Vidor, Texas.
History
KBED was initially proposed by Felix and James Joynt in 1959. The Joynts requested to obtain a construction permit to build a 1 kilowatt daytime broadcasting radio station at 1510 kHz, under the name KWEN Broadcasting on October 26, 1959, which was filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the following day. The proposed facility was constructed 3 miles northwest of 16th Street, on U.S. Highway 69 in Port Arthur, receiving a license to cover on February 20, 1969.
The facility was issued its first call sign KCAW, standing for country and western, on November 7, 1968. The Joynts would file to modify the location of the transmission site to a location on Texas State Highway 347, 0.7 miles northwest of 39th Street, which is where the facility signed on from in Port Arthur. That tower now is used as a cell site tower.
The transmitter was moved to its current South Vidor location (where its former FM sister KYKR-FM was located) when the FCC approved a power increase from 1,000 watts to 5,000 watts on August 1, 1980. Accompanied by the upgrade in ERP, the community of license was changed to Nederland. The callsign changed to KYKR, along with its FM sister 93.3, in 1974.
Eventually, owner Jimmie Joynt sold both the AM and FM to different owners. The AM station saw a couple of different owners (including Clear Channel Communications at one time) including various religious owners.
On January 4, 1988, the KYKR tower in South Vidor suffered a massive fire believed to be arson. Both 93.3 FM and 1510 AM transmitters were lost. KYKR struggled with borrowed equipment to make it back on the air at low power and eventually recovered.
Because it shared the same frequency as clear-channel radio station WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee, KBED only broadcast during the daytime hours.
KBED, along with simulcast partner KIKR, went silent in March 2025. They were two of six Cumulus stations to close the weekend of March 7, as part of a larger shutdown of underperforming Cumulus stations.[2] In March 2026, both stations turned in their licenses to the FCC.[3] KBED's license was cancelled on March 9, 2026.[4]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for KBED". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Venta, Lance (March 14, 2025). "Twenty Cumulus & Townsquare Media Stations Cease Operations With More To Come". RadioInsight. Retrieved March 14, 2025.
- ^ Cumulus Media Seeks to Reject Leases as Part of Restructuri8ng; Surrenders Some Silent Licenses Radioinsight - March 6, 2026
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."License Cancelled". Federal Communications Commission Licensing and Management System. March 9, 2026. Retrieved March 9, 2026.
External links
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- KBED in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
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