KGOW
Radio station based in Houston, Texas
KGOW (1560 AM "Viet Radio") is a Vietnamese-language full service radio station licensd to Bellaire, Texas, and serving Greater Houston. While the station is owned by Gow Media, LLC, KGOW's programming schedule is leased to a third party group to air Vietnamese focused programming for southwest Houston and areas in southwest Harris County where 1560's signal is strongest. Much of Viet Radio programming is simulcast with 1480 KNGO Dallas. The studios are in Uptown Houston one block from The Galleria.
The daytime transmitter site is located in Lochridge, Texas, across from Brazos Bend State Park. The nighttime transmitter site is in western Harris County, halfway between Katy, Texas and Hockley, Texas. KGOW used its nighttime authorization at 15,000 watts around the clock, as the 46,000 watt daytime site was damaged by floodwaters in 2016 and again during Hurricane Harvey. The Federal Communications Commission has granted KGOW Special Temporary Authority (STA) allowing it to operate at reduced power until the daytime site can be repaired.
History
Early years
The station signed on the air on September 1, 1961. Its original call sign was KGUL, based in Port Lavaca, Texas.
“KGOW” enters the record as radio station based in Houston, Texas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KGOW, Radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6329811. Authority coordinates are 29.327, -95.550. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1560, 1480, 2016 and 1961.
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This entry incorporates text from “KGOW” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.