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KODA (99.1 FM, "Sunny 99.1") is an American commercial adult contemporary-formatted radio station in Houston, Texas. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. Its studios and offices are located along the West Loop Freeway in Uptown Houston.
KODA has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts. The Senior Road Tower transmitter is off Farm to Market Road 2234 near Fort Bend Parkway in Southwest Houston. KODA broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format, with its sister station KTRH simulcasting on KODA's HD2 subchannel.
History
On Christmas Eve, 1946, the station signed on as KPRC-FM. It was owned by the Houston Post daily newspaper, which also owned KPRC and would put KPRC-TV on the air in 1949. (When KPRC-AM signed on in May, 1925, the call letters stood for Kotton Port Rail Center, a slogan promoting Houston commerce.) In its early years, KPRC-FM mostly simulcast its AM sister station.
KPRC-FM began broadcasting on 99.7 MHz until 1947 when it moved to 102.9 MHz. In 1958, the FM station was sold and changed its call sign to KHGM-FM. It moved to its current frequency in 1959.
In 1961, it changed call letters again, this time to KODA-FM, and aired a beautiful music format. (KODA refers to the musical term coda, indicating an extended passage which brings a piece to an end.) Several months later, KODA (1010 AM) went on the air as an AM daytimer, with the two stations simulcasting. KODA-FM continued the station's programming independently from sunset to sunrise. KODA-AM-FM and their easy listening format proved to be quite popular, and enjoyed high ratings through the 1960s and 70s.
KODA-AM-FM were sold to Group W Westinghouse Broadcasting in 1978, and were shortly broken up when the AM station was quickly re-sold. The easy listening format continued on KODA-FM, which was renamed KODA when the AM station took new call letters. The station was the flagship radio station for the Houston Oilers (now the Tennessee Titans) of the National Football League during the 1986 season.
The station was sold to SFX Broadcasting in 1989. SFX was amalgamated into AM/FM Inc. and acquired by Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1999. By the mid-1990s, KODA had begun adding more vocals to its playlist, and reducing the instrumentals, until it made the transition to soft adult contemporary.
The station, which had long been identified as K-O-D-A or "Coda", relabeled itself as "The All-New Sunny 99.1" in February 1991. The new moniker reflected the evolution from a Soft AC to Mainstream Adult Contemporary under the direction of General Manager Dusty Black and Program Director Dave Dillon. Since 2001, between mid-November and December 25, the station switches formats to all-Christmas music.
References
External links
Official website
Facility details for Facility ID 35337 (KODA) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
KODA in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
DFW Radio Archives - First FMs
People
Cub Koda (1948–2000), American rock and roll songwriter, singer, guitarist, disc jockey, music critic and record compiler
Geeta Koda (born ca. 1983), Indian politician
Gjon Koda (born 1893), Albanian friar, one of the 38 Blessed Martyrs of Albania
Harold Koda (born 1950), American fashion scholar
Madhu Koda (born 1971), Indian Chief Minister of the State of Jharkhand
Kōda, often spelled Koda or Kouda, a common Japanese surname
Aya Kōda (1904–1990), Japanese essayist and novelist
Gakuto Coda (born 1977), Japanese light novelist
Isao Koda (born 1965), Japanese baseball pitcher
Hiroyuki Koda (1944–1997), director of the US Yoshukai Karate Association 1979-1997
Kaho Kōda (born 1967), Japanese voice actress
Koda Kumi (born 1982), Japanese pop singer
Kuniko Koda (born 1965), Japanese politician
Kōda Rohan, pen name of Japanese author Kōda Shigeyuki (1867–1947)
Masakazu Koda (born 1969), Japanese soccer player
Mariko Kouda (born 1969), Japanese voice actress and J-Pop singer
Naoko Kouda, stage name of Japanese voice actress Yumiko Satō (born 1959)
Nobu Kōda (1870–1946), Japanese composer, violinist, and music teacher
Shosei Koda (1979–2004), Japanese tourist who was beheaded in Iraq
Kōda, fictional family in the Manpuku Japanese TV drama series (2018–)
Koda Glover (born 1993), American baseball pitcher
Koda Martin (born 1995), American football player
KODA (singer) (full name Kofi Owusu Dua Anto, 1978–2024), Ghanaian gospel singer
Places
Kōda Station (disambiguation), three train stations in Japan
Koda Dam, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Kōda, former Japanese town, merged into Akitakata, Hiroshima in 2004
Kōda, former Japanese town, merged into Kōta, Aichi in 1955
Koda, or Koda-cho, a district (cho) of Tahara, Aichi Japan
Koda River, the Japanese name of the Hutuo River (China), in the Linji school of Buddhism
Koda River (D. R. Congo), also spelled Kodda or Kodha, in Ituri province
Kōda River (Aichi), Japan; also called Kōta like the town
Kōda River (Kōchi), Japan; "Kanda" in some English sources
Koda (Russia), a tributary of the Angara in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
Koda River (South Sudan), in Jubek State
Other uses
KODA, an FM radio station in Houston, Texas, United States
KODA, prefix of the KLAT AM radio station in Houston, Texas, until 1979
KODA (Denmark), the collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers of Denmark
KODA (Kid Of Deaf Adult), an acronym sometimes used to refer to a Child Of Deaf Adult (CODA) under the age of 18
Koda, a character in the Disney Brother Bear movies.
Koda (Power Rangers Dino Charge), a character in the television series Power Rangers Dino Charge
Koda Farms, a family-owned rice producer in California
Koda language, spoken in India and Bangladesh
Koda millet or Kodo millet, Paspalum scrobiculatum
Koda tree, Ehretia acuminata, from China, Japan, New Guinea and Australia
KODA Finance, a finance company in the UK
See also
All pages with titles containing Koda
Koda Jahanabad or Kora Jahanabad, town in Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Maavalla Koda, a religious organization in Estonia
Thumbida Koda, a 1964 Kannada language film from India
Choda (also known as Koda), an ancient Indian tribal group
Coda (disambiguation)
Alternative transliterations of "Koda" for place names in India:
Kora (disambiguation)
Korha (disambiguation)
Korra (disambiguation)
Khori (disambiguation)
Khora
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