April 20, 2022 by Irene Menchaca

Mission, Purpose & Service Description of KLUX Radio

Mission and Purpose

Diocesan Telecommunications Corporation, licensee of non-commercial KLUX 89.5HD, was founded in 1983. The primary mission of KLUX is to support the community of South Texas. KLUX strives to provide positive wholesome programming, that promotes and amplifies Judeo Christian values to the largest possible audience, while enriching the lives and the hearts of all beliefs.

Service Description

As a listener supported station, KLUX-HD provides easy listening music, interspersed with programs and messages that are responsive to its primary mission, as well as the needs of the community. A long-time partner with the National Weather Service and City/County Emergency Management, KLUX received the 2018 Bonner McLane Public Service Award from the Texas Association of Broadcasters for its meritorious service during Hurricane Harvey. In 2017, KLUX received a National Gabriel Award for “Radio Station of the Year” for its outstanding performance in uplifting the human spirit. In 2021, former General Manager, Marty Wind wins the prestigious “Broadcaster of the Year” award by the Texas Association of Broadcasters. Important topics such as health, nutrition, housing, employment, education, family life, emergency management and public services to the community are included in daily schedule of 30 and 60 second announcements.

You can support POSITIVE RADIO in South Texas by using one of the methods below:

By calling 361-289-6437.
Use the “Donate” feature on our website at KLUX.org. The Feature uses our safe & secure Paypal link to process your credit card gift.
Email your pledge to Pledge@KLUX.org. Include your mailing address and we will respond with a pledge acknowledgment and return envelope.
U.S. Mail or drop off your payment: KLUX Radio – 1200 Lantana Street, Corpus Christi, TX 78407-1112
Make your contribution online using our PayPal service and a major credit card. Simply use the convenient link below:

PayPal Link at: PayPal.me/KLUX895

August 2, 2018 by Irene Menchaca

KLUX Wins The 2018 Bonner McLane Service Award

KLUX Receives The 2018 Bonner McLane Public Service Award for Medium Markets In Recognition of the Station’s Community Service During Hurricane Harvey

During ceremonies this morning in Austin, TX, local FM Broadcast station KLUX 89.5HD, was honored by the Texas Association of Broadcasters with the Association’s 2018 Bonner McLane Public Service Award for medium markets in recognition of the station’s community service during Hurricane Harvey.

KLUX was the only Coastal Bend radio station that remained on-the-air throughout the approach and landfall of the storm, providing continuous advisories from the National Weather Service and local Emergency Management to those huddled in their homes with no power and fading cellphone batteries. Operating exclusively on its Generator power for more than four and a half days, the station then supplied critical post storm recovery information for the area.

The Bonner McLane Public Service award is given each year by the TAB to recognize outstanding public service by broadcasters who have truly operated in the public interest. A key communications tool of the Local Emergency Planning Committee and local Emergency Management, the station was recognized in 2006, and again in 2016, with the Outstanding Media Award by EMAT (Emergency Management Association of Texas) for the station’s commitment to insuring that critical official information is disseminated to the public during local, civil, and weather emergencies.

Licensed as Non-commercial, the station is highly committed to community service, broadcasting more than 40,000 public service announcements each year on behalf of government and local not-for-profits. In 2016 the station was honored with a National “Gabriel Award” as “Station of the Year” for its service to the community and overall programming.

KLUX is an outreach of the Catholic Diocese of Corpus Christi, and is in its 34th year of service offering a 24-hour format of easy listening music, news, public service and inspirational messages, as well as a full slate of Catholic long form programming on Sunday Mornings. KLUX was the first Radio Station in South Texas to implement the new digital HD standard for FM broadcast. The digital transmission also allowed the inauguration of CCN Radio and the Relevant Radio Catholic network which can be heard at 89.5-2 utilizing an HD Digital receiver.

August 2, 2018 is a special day for the KLUX family. Thank you to the Texas Association of Broadcasters. Pictured left to right is Julie Pruett – TAB Chairman of the Board, Marty Wind – Exec. VP & GM for KLUX 89.5, and Oscar Rodriguez – TAB President

Pictured is Mr. Marty Wind, Vice-President and General Manager of KLUX accepting the award.

It is such an honor to receive this prestigious award

April 19, 2017 by Irene Menchaca

Easter Season

Why do we celebrate Easter for 50 Days?

by Rev. Lawrence Rice, CSP
An initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Most people think of Easter as a single day. It’s never had the commercial appeal of Christmas, and because it always falls on Sunday, most people don’t get an additional day off from work. But for Catholics, Easter isn’t just a day, it’s a whole season. The Easter season stretches all the way to the feast of Pentecost. Lent, which sometimes feels like it’s stretching on forever, is actually forty days long. Easter, on the other hand, is all of fifty days long. About these fifty days theologian Nathan Mitchell writes:‘The great fifty days of Pentecost are not an unwelcome, unrealistic obligation to “party on,” even if we don’t feel like it, but an invitation to explore more deeply “the weather of the heart,” to awaken our memory of God’s presence and power in our lives, to look more closely at all the rich and varied textures of creation.’One way the church pursues this goal of seeing God present in the world is through the reading of the Acts of the Apostles. At Masses all through the Easter season, our usual practice of reading from the Old Testament is replaced be reading from the Acts of the Apostles. These readings tell the story of the church’s earliest days, and the beginnings of our faith’s spreading throughout the ancient world. These stories of heroism, controversies, persecutions and miracles all testify to the continued presence of the Risen Christ in the world, through the lives of his disciples, and the actions of the Holy Spirit.All of this should be an encouragement and a sign of hope for us today. Despite war, violence, personal struggles, and an under-performing economy, God has not abandoned us, nor left us to our own devices. The risen savior is still with us. These 50 days of Easter ask us to reflect on his presence, and—even in the face of danger or fear—to live with joy.

April 19, 2016 by Margie Rivera

2016 Catholic Academy Gabriel Awards

Corpus Christi, TX – Local non-commercial FM broadcast station KLUX-HD, has been selected as a recipient of the National Gabriel Award for “Religious Radio Station of the Year”. The award is given for a station’s ability to uplift and enrich the human spirit with its total programming and community service. The Gabriel Awards, now in its 52nd year, recognizes outstanding messengers of God’s Good News in our media culture.

Entrants go through a highly selective process of preliminary screening and blue ribbon judging. Blue ribbon juries only present an award in a particular category when a level of excellence is achieved in values, content, creativity, artistic quality, technical quality and impact.

KLUX is in some very good company with other winners such as ABC News, NBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, New York Public Radio and the Eternal Word Television Network. The 51^st annual Gabriel Awards Presentation took place at the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark on Thursday, June 2, 2016.

KLUX 89.5HD – “Good Company”, is in its 31^st year of service to the Coastal Bend Community. The station is well known for its “Easy Listening” music format, public service, assistance in promoting the activities of local not for profit organizations, as well as its association with the Local Emergency Planning Committee and city / county Emergency Management offices.

GabPresentationPic — Mr. Marty Wind, Exec. VP/GM – KLUX 89.5 and Mr. David Hains, President of the Catholic Academy of Communication Professionals

KLUX Gabriel Award for Radio Station of the Year

KLUX Exec. VP/GM Marty Wind at the 2016 Gabriel Awards in St. Louis, MO

Win list

About Award

For more information on the Gabriel Awards contact Sue West at 937-458-0265

March 31, 2016 by Margie Rivera

KLUX 2016 EMAT Award Recipient

KLUX Receives The 2016 “Outstanding Media Award” from Emergency Management Association of Texas

The City of Corpus Christi – Nueces County Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) continually evaluates new ways to reach the community for purposes of education and awareness. Recently, a new county-wide emergency notification system was implemented. “Citizen opt-in” is a key feature of this new tool, however getting citizen participation continues to be a challenge. A long standing partner of the Corpus Christi – Nueces County LEPC, KLUX stepped up and developed radio ads promoting the emergency notification system free of charge. KLUX runs the ads on a regular and continual basis as a service to the community. The radio station also continues its commitment to the LEPC and local community by only broadcasting official emergency public information, unedited, anytime there is a need. In addition, KLUX is always willing to provide advisement and support for the cause and mission of the LEPC and local emergency management programs.