The former transmitter tower for KEEL-AM in Shreveport, now hom eto KADO-CD (a low-power TV station) is also NGS Benchmark CQ3202: (
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"CQ3202 DESIGNATION - SHREVEPORT RAD STA KEEL TOWER
CQ3202 PID - CQ3202
CQ3202 STATE/COUNTY- LA/CADDO
CQ3202 USGS QUAD - SHREVEPORT WEST (1992)
CQ3202
CQ3202 *CURRENT SURVEY CONTROL
CQ3202 ___________________________________________________________________
CQ3202* NAD 83(1992)- 32 29 58.19241(N) 093 45 05.13234(W) ADJUSTED
CQ3202
CQ3202_MARKER: 43 = RADIO/TV TOWER
CQ3202
CQ3202 HISTORY - Date Condition Recov. By
CQ3202 HISTORY - 1969 FIRST OBSERVED CGS
CQ3202
CQ3202 STATION DESCRIPTION
CQ3202
CQ3202''DESCRIBED BY COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY 1969 (LGB)
CQ3202''THE RED LIGHT ON TOP AND NEAR THE CENTER OF THE RADIO TOWER
CQ3202''OF ONE OF THE SHREVEPORT AM-FM RADIO STATIONS. IT IS A STRUCTURAL
CQ3202''STEEL TOWER, TRIANGULAR IN CROSS SECTION, PAINTED IN ALTERNATE
CQ3202''BANDS OF RED AND WHITE, AND IS ABOUT 250 FEET TALL. IT IS ON THE
CQ3202''SOUTH SIDE OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAY 20, IN THE SOUTHEAST ANGLE OF
CQ3202''STONER AVE AND FAIRFIELD AVE."
Like so many radio stations, the history of KEEL-AM involves multiple owners, frequencies, netowrks and call letters.
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"KEEL (710 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, the station serves the Shreveport area. The station is currently owned by Townsquare Media and features programming from ABC Radio and airs Louisiana Tech games. . .
History
As KTBS, the station joined NBC's Southwest group February 28, 1932, becoming the 88th station affiliated with NBC. At that time, KTBS was owned by Tristate Broadcasting System Inc. and broadcast on 1450 kHz with 1 KW power."
From Fadedsignals.com: (
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"WDAN signed on from Shreveport in 1922. Over the next several years, it was known as WGAQ and KSBA. It became KTBS in 1929. KTBS was co-owned with Shreveport’s KWKH-AM and became and NBC affiliate in 1932.
The station became KEEL-AM in 1957 when Gordon McLendon, the man who popularized the Top 40 radio format in the 1950s and 1960s, purchased it. KEEL became a top-rated station in Shreveport under McLendon. He sold it to LIN Broadcasting in 1962 and the ratings continued to climb, according to a 1971 issue of Billboard Magazine.
As music listeners switched to FM in the late 1970s, KEEL’s ratings declined. It evolved to an adult contemporary format by 1982. KEEL flipped to an adult standards format in 1988. It adopted the current news/talk format in 1995. As of 2015, Townsquare Media owns the station."
See here for an advertisement about the "new" KTBS-transmitter, which is the waymarked tower: (
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By the 1980s, the transmitter had been moved to Mooringsport, and this site became a backup. The KEEL transmitter was finally decommissioned and dismantled in the 1990s.
In 2017, KADO-CD, a low-power TV station, is broadcasting from this site, which also hosts cellular telephone antennas, law-enforcement communications equipment, among other non-public transmitters. Source: (
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From Wikipedia: (
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KADO-CD is a low-power Class A family and religious television station in Shreveport, Louisiana, broadcasting locally on UHF channel 40.
While KADO had voluntarily applied to the Federal Communications Commission for digital channel UHF 40, the station's management estimated the cost of digital transition to be between $150,000 and a quarter-million dollars, a prohibitive cost for a small low-power broadcaster. The station was licensed for digital operation on June 3, 2015.