Today is
Monday July 27, 2026
Air Date: 10/30/16
Guests: Kelli DeShazo and Gillian Sheridan of “Hope for 100,†a ministry of Green Acres Baptist Church designed to encourage its members as well as other churches to embrace the need of children through the work of foster care and/or adoption.
Air Date: 10/23/16
Guest: Linnet Pichette of Champions for Children, which provides education, mentoring, tools, and support to caregivers, teachers, and parents to help children achieve their full potential.
Air Date: 10/16/16
Guest: Scott Harrison of East Texas Cornerstone Assistance Network in Tyler
The problem has nothing to do with KTBB’s signal strength. Our signal strength, like all licensed radio stations, is a function of fixed values that are set forth in the operating parameters section of our license, which is issued by the Federal Communications Commission. No station has the capacity or the authority to unilaterally alter its operating parameters.
Nominally, the FCC sets those parameters so as to provide interference-free service over a station’s city of license. Under normal conditions, KTBB 97.5 FM puts a “city grade†signal over Tyler and Longview and the surrounding communities.
The problem stems from an atmospheric phenomenon called “tropospheric propagation,” — commonly just called “ducting.” Here’s a Wikipedia article on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation
The phenomenon tends to be particularly acute in this part of the world during the summer.
What follows is a greatly simplified explanation.
Tropospheric propagation, or ducting, most commonly occurs when air aloft is warmer than air on the surface – what the weathermen call a “temperature inversion.” Normally, air gets cooler as you gain altitude away from the heat reflected by the Earth’s surface. But when you have a large high pressure dome overhead, (which typically accounts for our miserably hot temperatures in the summer), it is common for air temperatures to warm as you gain altitude. Eventually, as you climb, the air temperatures will start to cool. But in the summer, when winds are light and high pressure systems tend to stall over a particular area and stay in one place, there is frequently a layer of air – a few thousand feet thick — that is warmer than the air on the Earth’s surface – particularly in the morning (more on that in a moment).
This area of warm air aloft creates what amounts to a boundary for VHF radio signals. FM radio broadcasting occurs in the VHF portion of the radio spectrum. Rather than leave the transmitting antenna and radiate straight out across the horizon and into space, radio frequency energy comes into contact with this warm air boundary and is refracted or bent, just as a lens bends light — causing the signal to follow the curvature of the Earth. What is created is effectively a “duct” through which a VHF signal can travel a great distance.
The result is that a radio station from far away will interfere with a station close to home. The interference you typically hear in this area is either from KFNC, the all-sports station at 97.5 FM near Houston, or KLAK, an adult contemporary station at 97.5 FM in Grayson County, near Sherman, Texas. While those stations are interfering with us, our signal is most likely interfering with them. It is a two-way street. The effect on your individual listening depends almost entirely on where you happen to be at any particular moment. When the phenomenon is occurring, it affects nearly every FM station at one place or another within its coverage area.
The phenomenon typically decreases as it gets later in the day and the Earth’s surface warms. When surface temperatures rise, the differential between surface air and air aloft disappears and thus the warm air boundary disappears. When that boundary is gone, the “duct” no longer exists and the radio frequency energy resumes radiating straight out across the horizon and into space.
Ducting is extremely annoying and, unfortunately, there isn’t anything we can do about it other than — in the particular case of KTBB — jump over to the AM band and listen at 600 AM.
Thank you for listening.
Why is Mark Levin not on at 5pm anymore?
We made the decision to program a local news hour at 5:00 p.m. based on the very latest audience ratings. Our least listened-to daypart is late afternoon. By being live and local for an hour on the way home, we hope to replicate the success that we have long enjoyed with the KTBB Morning News.
We know that we are largely a “car radio” radio station. That, coupled with the fact that we are the only local news radio, led us to develop the “Drive at Five” to capitalize on the need that working people have for a news update as they drive home.
Another consideration is the nature of the Mark Levin Show. Across the country, Mark Levin enjoys his strongest ratings on the east coast where his program begins at 6:00 p.m. This strongly suggests that the tone and tenor of the show is better suited to early evening than late afternoon. Accordingly, we have pushed the start of The Mark Levin Show to 6:00 p.m. local time.
TYLER — After months of unavailability in the aftermath of a listeria outbreak, Blue Bell ice cream returned to East Texas store shelves Monday. Johnny Lewsader was just one of countless customers who enthusiastically welcomed the tasty treat back. Lewsader told KETK, “I think they took the right measure to protect their customers, so we’re happy they’re back, and we’re gonna be excited about eating Blue Bell again.” A couple of Blue Bell employees voiced similar feelings. Curtis Pomykal said, “I feel very blessed. To have something go through what we went through and have such an awesome customer base that will welcome us back with open arms — it’s very humbling.” Jenny Van Dorf chimed in, “It’s been incredible. We’ve received letters over time, we’ve seen social media posts and emails — and really, just that outcry for people wanting to know when it’s coming back.”
TYLER — Assistance may be available for some who suffered damage from severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line winds, and flooding earlier this year in Smith County. According to a news release, farms and ranches suffering damage may be eligible for assistance under the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) administered by the Texas Farm Service Agency (FSA) county office if the damage:
– Will be so costly to rehabilitate that Federal assistance is or will be needed to return the land to productive agricultural use
– Is unusual and is not the type that would recur frequently in the same area
– Affects the productive capacity of the farmland
– Will impair or endanger the land. Read the rest of this entry »
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TYLER — Representative Louie Gohmert, of Tyler, released a statement today after Speaker John Boehner announced his resignation from the position of Speaker of the House. Boehner said he plans to step down from the United States Congress at the end of October. Gohmert wrote:
“America is at an incredibly perilous time in our history; we need bold leadership more than ever, and the Speaker now has graciously given us that opportunity.â€
“Due in part to the massive shift in power away from the most accountable representatives of the people to a President and five judges, we have needed leadership with vision for the future that did not continue the downhill slide. A goal to simply slow the losses of liberty and opportunity is not what is needed.†Read the rest of this entry »
What you are experiencing is an atmospheric phenomenon called “tropospheric propagation.” It happens when warm air aloft overruns cooler air on the surface. The result will be to set up conditions wherein VHF radio signals, such as those in the FM radio band, are able to travel well beyond their normal coverage limits. The phenomenon is referred to colloquially as “ducting,” because what in effect happens is that an atmospheric “duct” opens which then carries a VHF signal past the horizon and allows it to follow the curve of the Earth.
What you are hearing is not a weak signal from us. What you are hearing is a strong interfering signal from a distant FM station. Where you are, you are likely hearing KLAK 97.5 FM from Sherman, Texas. Move around the area and depending on where you are, just about any FM station on the dial could be receiving interference. It’s positively maddening and it is, at this time, about the worst I’ve ever seen it and I’ve been around a long time.
The bad news is that it’s really bad right now. The good news is that it’s temporary. Generally, the effect lessens as the day goes on.
It will abate when the enormous high pressure ridge that Dr. Bob Peters keeps telling us about either dissipates or moves off.
Until then, we regret the inconvenience.
Thank you for listening.
Paul Gleiser
LONGVIEW — A Kilgore man has been handed a 15 year prison sentence for the death of his brother nearly two years ago. Jeffrey Allen Miller, 30, had admitted he had stabbed his brother, Jeremy Dewayne Miller, 27. He has been sentenced to prison by state district judge David Brabham. Sheriff’s deputies were called to 642 McQueen Road on June 24th, 2013. They found Jeremy with a serious stab wound to his abdomen. He died about an hour later at Longview’s Good Shepherd Medical Center. His brother was arrested in the case four days later.
EDGEWOOD — Many people in Edgewood, in Van Zandt County, find what appear to be recruiting flyers in front of their homes. But the drive doesn’t seem to be having the intended effect. The flyers are sealed in plastic bags along with rocks, and tossed into yards and driveways. Kathy Baker says she’s glad she found one before her eight-year-old son saw the message. Baker says, “This mentality just disgusts me.” The flyers appear to be recruiting messages for the Ku Klux Klan and direct people to a website and a Quinlan post office box. Baker adds, “Some people think that when you live in a small town, that it means that you’re small-minded — and that’s not true.” Similar flyers appeared in the area about this time last year.
LONGVIEW — A teen reported missing in Gregg County last month may have been spotted in El Paso County. The Gregg County Sheriff’s Department Facebook page says runaway Paiglynn Raymond, 15, may have been spotted at a Love’s Travel Center in Anthony, Texas by a truck driver. She was wearing the same type of clothing, blue hoodie, jeans and a gray backpack, but had braided sandy blond hair and a nose ring. She told the truck driver that her name was Paige and she needed a ride to Colorado. Read the rest of this entry »
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TYLER — Over the past month, the Northeast Texas Public Health District (NET Health) has received an increased number of cases involving pet animal exposure to animals at high risk for rabies, according to a NET Health news release. The Texas Department of State Health Services advised NET Health that three skunks submitted for analysis tested positive for rabies. Each of these three cases involved a family dog fighting with a skunk that entered the yard, according to officials. Read the rest of this entry »
Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will be in Tyler Tuesday, Sept 16, speaking at the Cowan Center at UT Tyler. Justice Thomas’s appearance marks the first event of the season for UT Tyler’s Distinguished Lecture Series. Thomas was nominated to the high court by President George H.W. Bush and he was confirmed by the Senate in 1991.
Thomas will speak Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the Cowan Center box office or may be obtained online at the Cowan Center website (http://www.cowancenter.org/lectures.html).
Justice Thomas’ appearance at the Cowan Center is sponsored by Drs. Lawrence L. Anderson and Svetislava J. Vukelja, Rod and Merle Mabry/UT Tyler and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Z. Ornelas.
TYLER — Texas Senator John Cornyn was on the UT Tyler campus Friday meeting with local leaders to discuss and to learn more about the university’s initiatives in the area of primary education, particularly as it pertains to science, technology, engineering and math. Sen. Cornyn made a statement to members of the local media regarding the importance of those initiatives, saying that education must be pursued in such a way as to avoid the danger of having acquired skills become obsolete. A portion of his remarks may be seen in the video below.
During the event, KTBB’s Paul Gleiser asked Sen. Cornyn to address the U.S. response to the terrorist organization ISIS. His response is in the video below.
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX 28) have each introduced bills in their respective houses of Congress that they together are calling the “Humane Act.” The bill is intended to close a loophole in a 2008 law that treats illegal immigrants from other countries differently than illegal immigrants from Mexico. According to Senator Cornyn, the law requires immigrants from countries other than Mexico to be released to a relative in the United States pending a hearing on a date in the future as set forth in a notice to appear. Most of those appearance obligations are never kept by the illegal immigrants, according to Senator Cornyn, resulting in de facto legal admission into the country. The bill that Sen. Cornyn and Rep. Cuellar have introduced would effectively modify that 2008 law so as to require detention of illegal immigrants, including unaccompanied children, and a speedy trial to determine the disposition of each case. The bill faces stiff headwinds in the Democratically-controlled Senate according to Sen. Cornyn.
KTBB’s Paul Gleiser spoke with Sen. Cornyn. That interview is available below.
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SMITH COUNTY — Smith County Sheriff’s Department deputies are investigating a shooting just outside of Tyler this afternoon. Suspect, Joshua Pettigrew (pictured) turned himself in just before 5:30. The 31-year-old was booked into the Smith County Jail on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and evading arrest. According to KETK, the incident happened in the 7400 block of County Road 129. A male and female were reportedly involved in a domestic disturbance when the incident began. The male, who has not been named, was leaving the residence when the female, Tina Allen, 49, reportedly got a .22 caliber firearm and opened fire on the male, shooting him in the shoulder. Read the rest of this entry »
Yes, recent rule changes by Major League Baseball now allow affiliate stations to stream Major League games.
Yours is a question we get nearly every fall. If it were up to us, we’d be on the air at 100 kilowatts. The equipment to broadcast at a higher power output is relatively cheap and, despite the high energy costs that so dominate the headlines as I write this, so is the electricity. If we could, we’d go buy a gangbusters transmitter and crank it all the way up. And so would every other broadcaster. Therein lies the problem.
If every broadcaster simply put as much signal in the air as he or she had the checkbook to buy, the spectrum would be a chaotic jumble of useless noise.
Which is what was rapidly becoming the case in the late 1920s and early 1930s as the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) was formed and that agency began allocating frequencies, power and directionality.
When the sun sets, KTBB, like most AM radio stations, changes its power and the directions in which it most strongly radiates its signal.
Radio Frequency energy (RF) in what is commonly called the AM band (535 kHz to 1700 kHz) has a characteristic called the skywave. During the day, ionization of the atmosphere by the sun suppresses the skywave and your receiver detects only the groundwave. But at night, when solar energy is gone, the skywave is “free” to travel great distances. As a result, the skywave of a station in Tyler, Texas can cause severe interference for a station in a state as far away as either coast. The skywave effect diminishes with an increase in frequency (dial position). Therefore, a station that is low on the dial like KTBB at 600 kHz will have a very significant skywave component.
To deal with this physical property of AM radio, the FCC allocated radio stations in the U.S. in such a way that some stations are fully powered both day and night, a great many stations are only on the air in the daytime and the rest operate at a higher power by day and a lower power by night.
KTBB is in the last group of stations. Our daytime power is 5,000 watts. Our nighttime power is 2,500 watts. We change power at local sunrise and local sunset. As you know, that time changes with the changing of the seasons. As I write this, our power-up time on KTBB is 7:30 a.m. CDT and our power-down time is 6:45 p.m. CDT As I mentioned, those times change as the seasons change.
As if that weren’t enough, KTBB, like most AM stations, uses a directional antenna system. Simply put, we radiate our signal more strongly in some directions than in others. This, too, is to provide protection from interference to stations in other communities that also operate on our frequency (600 kHz) as well as to stations in other communities that operate on frequencies adjacent to ours (580 kHz, 590 kHz, 610 kHz, and 620 kHz). Our directional pattern changes for daytime and nighttime operation at the same times that our power changes. Our pattern is such that we do not radiate as strongly to the east toward Longview at night as we do in the daytime. Also, we protect KLBJ(AM) in Austin. They are at 590 on the dial, the first adjacent channel to us at 600 kHz. Thus, we “pull in our horns” to the south as the sun sets.
The question that always follows is, “Well, can’t you do something to raise your power.” And the answer that must follow is, “No, we can’t.” The AM Table of Allotments for the United States is a giant jigsaw puzzle. What we do will affect our neighboring AM stations, which will affect their neighbors and so on. So what we have is for all intents and purposes fixed. I hope this answers your question.
You can view a table listing of the AVERAGE HOURS OF SUNRISE AND SUNSET by clicking on this link: Sun Hours
Many of our listeners that are affected by our power and pattern changes are making use of our web streaming service. If you live in the Tyler-Longview metropolitan survey area as defined by ARBITRON, the radio ratings company, you can subscribe to our streaming service for only $0.99 and you can listen on any computer you own.
The eligible counties of residence are Smith, Gregg & Cherokee.
Click here: Stream Terms for complete information.
I appreciate your interest and I hope I have answered your question.
Paul L. Gleiser
President
TYLER — Two elections in Smith County may hinge on as-yet uncounted ballots. Elections Administrator Karen Nelson says these fall into two categories. One is provisional ballots — ones that were cast even though an individual’s eligibility to vote was in question. Nelson says there are 77 such ballots in the county. The other category is overseas military ballots; Nelson says about 100 of those are still out. One of the elections involves the Tyler ISD bond proposal; the other will determine whether beer and wine can be purchased for off-premise consumption in J.P. Precinct 4. Both measures were behind when all regular ballots had been counted — but by razor-thin margins, with the votes split virtually down the middle.
Nelson says officials have begun processing the provisional ballots to determine, first, how many will be ruled valid. Then officials will count the valid votes, if there are any. Nelson hopes to have the provisional ballots processed and counted by early Thursday afternoon. The deadline for receiving overseas military ballots is Monday, November 8, at 5 p.m. Nelson says officials have until November 10 to count those ballots, and she hopes to have it done by late afternoon on November 9. The canvassing period is November 10-15. Nothing becomes official at least until the canvassing is done — and challenges or recounts could always come into play. KTBB will keep you posted on how things turn out.
TISD board president Ron Vickery said regardless of the outcome, he’s pleased with the heavy voter turnout. If the bond issue passes, Vickery said the school district will move forward with plans for three new schools. In recent days, some opposition has emerged to the proposal for a new Rice Elementary School based on concerns about possibly moving the campus. Vickery says a key piece of any plans for Rice will be setting up public forums in order to get questions about the school’s future answered as quickly as possible. If the proposal loses, Vickery says school district officials will try to “put together a proposal and do it at a time and in a manner that we hopefully will have some wide community input on and support on.” According to Vickery, bond opponents seem to agree that TISD has facility needs, but there’s been disagreement about “what the plan should look like.”
Other local races were decided early. Both Bullard and Whitehouse will allow mixed beverages in restaurants, but neither will allow beer and wine to be bought in stores for off-premise consumption. Also, State Representative Leo Berman and District Attorney Matt Bingham cruised to easy victories; other area Republican hopefuls appeared on the way to similar wins.
LONGVIEW — A pair from Gladewater and one suspect from Longview were arrested Monday for theft of copper. The three were arrested near FM 1845 and Bacle Road after deputies responded to an in-progress theft call. “Monday morning, field deputies were dispatched to an oil field company storage yard off FM 1845 north of Longview after a theft in progress was reported,” Gregg County Sheriff’s Captain Mike Claxton said Tuesday. An employee of a local production company saw a man run from a cart loaded with stolen copper and called law enforcement.
“Two of the three were located and detained when deputies arrived, and the third was found south of the theft site after running into some woods while deputies were en-route,” Claxton said. Michael Dennis Harnden, 50, and Julia Loraine Dodd, 39, both of Gladewater; and Jeffrey Wayne Prichard, 62, of Longview, were charged by probable cause affidavits with one count of theft of copper, a 4th degree felony. Officials say the copper taken from the company was recovered at the arrest location. “Some damage was caused to several electrical transformers when this group removed the copper,” Claxton said. The cost of the damage has not been determined. On Tuesday, Harnden, Dodd, and Prichard were arraigned before Judge B.H. Jameson. Bond was set on each suspect at $10,000. All three remain in jail.
I share your disappointment that Charley Jones is no longer on the air at KTBB. We like the show and I like Charley. I have known him for over 35 years.
The reason we stopped carrying the show is not because of the show itself. It is because of the Texas State Network. TSN is the network that syndicates Texas Overnight and the network, due to severe cuts in personnel, has devolved into a sloppy, inattentive mess.
When the Texas State Network has technical difficulties in the middle of the night, there is no engineer on hand to clear the problem. What this has meant for us in practical terms is that when the network feed goes down, as it does with distressing frequency, there is literally NO ONE AT THE NETWORK that we can call. We are then left to scramble to get something on the air.
Texas State Network no longer takes live technical trouble calls from affiliates. If an affiliate has a technical problem (or more accurately if the network has a technical problem that results in cessation of delivery of
programming to affiliates), affiliates are supposed to email the trouble report to TSN. Our experience with TSN on this is that the emails are either never acknowledged or are acknowledged hours or in some cases days after the fact.
When TSN goes down in the middle of the night, it causes serious disruptions to our operation. The frequency of TSN’s difficulties, coupled with their indifferent response, has thus led us stop taking their syndicated programming. Replaying Rush’s broadcast from the previous afternoon is something over which we have total control. We have zero control when it comes to fixing problems at TSN and apparently very little influence over them. Our oft expressed concerns regarding their frequent problems fell on deaf ears. That’s why we made the decision that we made.
I appreciate the fact that you miss Charley Jones. As I say, I have known Charley for over three and a half decades and respect him a lot. But his network is letting him down and we simply cannot allow their sloppy
operation to negatively affect us any longer.
Paul L. Gleiser
IRVING — First Choice Power has awarded Tyler’s Discovery Science Place its Reduce Your Use Grant. First Choice Power officials say the grant provides funding for energy-efficiency products and services to reduce nonprofits’ energy usage and costs now and in the future. “These grants enable nonprofits around Texas to decrease their energy use, allowing them to dedicate their time and resources toward the long-term vision of achieving their missions,” said Brian Hayduk, president of First Choice Power.
26 nonprofits agencies will receive the grant across Texas, each located in a community served by First Choice Power. The Discovery Science Place will use the grant funds to replace standard light bulbs with CFL bulbs. First Choice Power officials say the energy efficient lighting must be retrofitted for use with the existing tube lighting fixtures.
“We’re very excited to have been selected as a recipient of the Reduce Your Use Grant” said Michael Shanklin, executive director of The Discovery Science Place. ”As a non-profit organization that is also a hands-on museum with a focus on science and technology, the ability to demonstrate the importance of energy conservation while reducing our energy usage and costs is important to us, our guests and our supporters.”
TYLER — Lone Star Self-Storage has partnered with The Salvation Army in Tyler to sponsor a “Food and Fan Drive.” You can donate non-perishable food items or a box fan and receive your second month of storage free. Donations can be made through the last day of June, Monday through Friday 9-6, Saturday 9-5, and Sunday 9-2 at Lone Star Self-Storage, 3521 Frankston Hwy. Salvation Army staffers say food and fans are needed to help ess-fortunate East Texans beat the heat this summer.
KILGORE — 2010 marks the Texas Shakespeare Festival’s 25th season, and the TSF Foundation is highlighting the festival’s impact on the East Texas economy. Among the examples:
• More than 96% of available seats were sold during the 2009 season.
• 75% of attendees were from outside the Kilgore area.
• More than 75% ate out in the region before/after attending performances.
• Almost 30% spent the night in the area as a result of attending performances.
• TSF has worked with more than 1,139 theatre artists from forty states, the District of Columbia, and eight foreign countries.
• The Festival has staged 110 productions for more than 1,181 performances including 28 plays of the Shakespeare canon, many of them more than once; 22 non-Shakespearean classics; fifteen American musicals; nine productions of a history play based on the East Texas oilfield; 24 productions for children, many of them original scripts; and a world premiere of the musical, Reveoco.
Also of note: Recognizable TSF alumni include Michael Hall, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor and star of the HBO series “Six Feet Under”; Glenn Kessler, Emmy-winning writer and co-creator, writer, and executive producer for the FX series “Damages” with Glenn Close; and Danny Pino, in his seventh season as Detective Valens on the CBS series “Cold Case.” You can go to http://www.texasshakespeare.com for more on this year’s festival.
TYLER — Tyler police are investigating an early Sunday morning drive-by shooting. Police responded around 1:00 a.m. to a residence in the 400 block of Cochran Street and found a woman inside who had sustained a single gunshot wound. She was transported to East Texas Medical Center Hospital by ambulance. Police say her injury is not believed to be life-threatening. According to authorities, the incident involved several shots being fired from an unknown vehicle as it passed by the residence.
Anyone with information about the suspects involved in this crime is urged to contact the Tyler Police Department, at 903-531-1000, or Crimestoppers, at 903-597-CUFF (903-597-2833). Crimestoppers will pay up to $1,000 for information that leads to arrests and charges filed against the suspects in this or any felony case.