{"id":245390,"date":"2026-04-11T19:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245390\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:21:15","slug":"townsquare-media-takes-talk-103-9-in-lubbock-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/245390\/","title":{"rendered":"Townsquare Media Takes Talk 103.9 in Lubbock Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Townsquare Media has silenced Talk 103.9 in Lubbock, ending the station more than seven years after flipping the format.<\/p>\n<p>The company took the station silent on April 1st, ending a 73-run for the signal in the Texas city. <\/p>\n<p>In its filing with the FCC, Townsquare Media pointed to \u201ceconomic conditions in the market\u201d as reason for the move.<\/p>\n<p>The news\/talk format seen on the station was implemented in 2019. Previously, the station had featured a sports talk format. It also spent time as the radio flagship of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>KKAM-AM is a Class C signal with 1,000 watts of power. <\/p>\n<p>The Lubbock market remains served in the news\/talk format by the 790 KFYO brand, also owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/barrettmedia.com\/?s=townsquare\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Townsquare Media<\/a>. Earlier this year, a new conservative talk station, 92.3 The Hub, joined 790 KFYO and Talk 104.3 in the market. <\/p>\n<p>Barrett Media produces daily content on the music, news, and sports media industries.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__barrettmedia.com_subscribe_&amp;d=DwMFAw&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=4MLBr6iHQinVg_Olazc2OjkXveRyhK_22x-NakxcCXM&amp;m=_esp3qVo0yh3ATvU4uUVbYP6DXCGpx8bWNH_irzqntTE5miRdcA0Kf1hkFmJNTB_&amp;s=ceXx7nV8jZQX7ERTlh_KRpsjofV8w6lHSPNxKkrOQ8c&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Sign up<\/a>\u00a0for our newsletters to stay updated and get the latest information right in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Barrett Media Sports\" itemprop=\"image\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EDITORNEWS-WRITER-7.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/EDITORNEWS-WRITER-7.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Barrett Media Sports\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Townsquare Media has silenced Talk 103.9 in Lubbock, ending the station more than seven years after flipping the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[46491,168,170,169,65834,65835,12013,65836,93554,65837,93555],"class_list":["post-245390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-barrett-media","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-news-radio","tag-lubbock-radio","tag-news-radio","tag-news-talk-radio","tag-talk-103-9","tag-talk-radio","tag-townsquare-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}