KEES (1430 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Urban Gospel format. Licensed to Gladewater, Texas. The station serves the Longview-Marshall area and is currently owned by Salt of the Earth Broadcasting and features programing of Urban Gospel music and teachings.^[1]

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1430 signed on the air in 1947. It was assigned the call sign KSIJ and had a power of 500 watts. In the 1950's KSIJ had a top 40/Country format that featured the station manager and program director, Tom Perryman. Thanks to Tom, KSIJ became the first station in Texas to have Elvis Presley on the air. Due to the geographic location of Gladewater and KSIJ Tom was abel to get new up and comers from The Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport as well as the performers from the Reo Palm Isle Club in Longview. Tom brought Elvis, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Floyd Cramer, and Johnny Horton to the station on the air and had the station promote and arrange their concerts. Tom Perryman built KSIJ into the top station in Gregg County due to his hard work and influence in the music business. Tom Perryman later went to WSM and the Grand Ole Opry, then to KGRI Henderson, Texas, and is now on KKUS 104.1 the Ranch in Tyler, Texas.

In the 1970's 1430 added another tower and powered up to 5,000 watts daytime and 1,000 watts night.

In the 1980's Matt Williams bought the station and changed it from a music station to talk on AM. He also changed the call letters from the legendary KSIJ to KEES.

Williams later sold KEES to Citadel. Citadel in turn sold 1430 KEES, 600 KTBB, 1330 KDOK, 92.1 KDOK-FM, and 1490 KGKB to Paul Gleiser.

Gleiser simulcasted KTBB on KEES, as the 600 signal did not cover Gregg county very well. The simulcast ended in 2006 when Gleiser sold KEES and KGLD 1330 to its current owners Salt Of The Earth Broadcasting of Baytown, Texas.

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External links[link]

• Query the FCC's AM station database for KEES
• Radio-Locator Information on KEES
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KEES

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The Porsche 936 which Hurley Haywood drove to victory at the 1977 24 Hour of Le Mans.

Hurley Haywood (born May 4, 1948 in Chicago) is an American race-car driver,perhaps the world's most accomplished endurance-racing driver.Hurley has amassed an astounding number of wins in this most intense form of motorsport - five overall victories at the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona, three at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and two at the 12 Hours of Sebring. He also has the 1988 Trans-Am title to his credit, as well as two IMSA GT championship, three Norelco Cup championships, a SuperCar title and 18 IndyCar starts. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1977 (Porsche 936), 1983 (Porsche 956) and 1994 (Dauer 962 Le Mans) and is the most successful driver at the 24 Hours of Daytona with 5 wins (1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, and 1991).^[1] He won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1973 and 1981. He also drove in the 1980 Indianapolis 500 finishing 18th. He also represented IMSA four times in the International Race of Champions (1986, 1989, 1992, 1995).^[2] In 1970, he was drafted into the Vietnam War where he served as Specialist 4. By the time he returned from his tour of duty, he returned to his winning ways with his first IMSA GT title in 1971.^[3]

After Peter H. Gregg's death, he has been the main leader behind Brumos Automotive dealerships, which he is at today.^[4]

He is quoted to have said, "If you have one ounce of energy left, then you haven't done your job properly".

He is currently the Chief Driving Instructor at the Porsche Sport Driving School held at the Barber Motorsports Park outside Birmingham, Alabama.^[1]

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