KIKR
radio station in Beaumont, Texas
KIKR (1450 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, and simulcast with sister station KBED AM 1510 Nederland, Texas. Its studios were located on South Eleventh Street in Beaumont and its transmitter was located half a mile southeast of the studios.
History
KIKR received its license as KAYC on June 12, 1962, and was owned by Texas Coast Broadcasters, Inc. It was once the AM sister to KAYD (97.5 FM) hence "KAY-C" and "KAY-D".
The first station to operate on 1450 kHz in the area was KRIC in the 1940s. The FM, (then KRIC-FM) was originally 99.5 but was moved to 97.5 in a swap with Lake Charles, Louisiana, due to the second harmonic of 99.5 falling in the middle of TV channel 11. At the time, there were no TV stations in Beaumont and KHOU, then KGUL, was on the air with CBS from a tower north of Galveston island. Viewers in the Beaumont area trying to watch KGUL could not due to the interference. After numerous complaints were lodged, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) swapped 99.5 for 97.5 and the problem went away.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “KIKR” as radio station in Beaumont, Texas. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as radio station in Beaumont, Texas. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6330839. Authority coordinates are 30.064, -94.120. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1450, 1510 and 1962.
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This entry incorporates text from “KIKR” 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.