City Huntsville, Texas Frequency 99.7 MHz | Branding K-Star Country First air date 1998 | |
Broadcast area Conroe, Texas
Huntsville, Texas
Willis, Texas
The Woodlands, Texas
Tomball, Texas
Klein, Texas Slogan This is K-Star Country, Your Country Station | ||
KVST is a radio station airing a Country music format licensed to Huntsville, Texas, broadcasting on 99.7 MHz FM. The station is owned by New Wavo Communication Group, Inc. The original KVST signed on in Huntsville, Texas at 103.5 as an Adult Contemporary station named "Star 103.5". The format was short lived and yielded the way for the current K-Star country format. The frequency was changed later to 103.7 and then moved to Willis, Texas. 99.7's original signal came on the air as KUST from a transmit site east of Huntsville and was used as a replacement for the original license at 103.7 (now KHJK) when it was sold to Cumulus Broadcasting for $32 million in 2005. Once Cumulus assumed control of KVST, moved it to La Porte, and switched calls with this facility to KUST La Porte. 99.7 was then physically moved down Interstate Highway 45 by trucks from Huntsville to a transmit site near Willis, took the KVST calls that were switched with the newly created La Porte facility, and reimaged as "K-Star Country 99.7".
In July 2014, KVST filed an application to move from its tower west of Willis back north to the original 103.5/103.7 tower. This improves the station's signal in Huntsville and Trinity, Texas, while resulting in some loss of coverage in The Woodlands and northern Houston.