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Early Baytown Radio Roots KRCT KREL and Call Letter Origins
In Baytown Texas the late 1940s saw KRCT and KREL rise on Cedar Bayou and Decker Drive, with KRCT later becoming KIKK and KREL evolving into gospel KWWJ. The piece traces call letters like KPRC KTHT KTRH WBAP WBAP meanings and notes local contests, SUN newsroom ties, and station ownership by The Baytown Sun.
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Cedar Bayou
East Texas Avenue
KRCT
RCT
Refining Center of
Texas
Robert C. Touchstone
Goose Creek
Baytown
Dixie Howell
Decker Drive
KREL
Robert E. Lee High School
Big City
KIKK
KWWJ
Jesus
Houston
KPRC
Kotton Port Rail Center
KTHT
Roy Hofheinz
KTRH
Rice Hotel
Texas-New Mexico
Mississippi River
Fort Worth
WBAP
Commerce
Herbert Hoover
Jim Nelson Sporting Goods
Daddy
The
Jaycees
Baytown Sun
Pearce
Ashbel
Dan Shults
A.L. Banks
Johnella Boynton
Sun