Radio station KGKB moves to Tyler

Name: Radio station KGKB moves to Tyler
Start: 1931

Beginning1931. Card 103 of 165.

Radio station KGKB, which Scott Fybush says started up in 1927 in Goldthwaite and then Brownwood, moved to Tyler in 1931.

Fybush calls it the oldest AM license in town (now KYZS 1490), and after World War II it was owned by Lucille Ross Buford, whose KLTV debuted in 1954.

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Scott Fybush, Site of the Week 12/11/2020: Looping Around Tyler, Texas (Fybush.com)fybush.comwhat's now KYZS (1490), the oldest AM license in town.In 1931, KGKB (then on 1500) packed up and moved to Tyler, where it ended up after the war in the hands of Lucille Ross Buford

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