known as the "Arizona Waiver." It was named after a Glendale, Arizona station, owned by the Arizona Broadcasting Corporation. Back when the main studio of a station had to be inside the city of license, the Arizona Waiver gave stations an out by allowing a station to air its recorded, non-network shows from an 'auxiliary' studio (in this case, Houston) while its live local public affairs shows would air from a city of license studio. This worked well with the easy listening format, as 94% of the station was recorded music and commercials. The 6% news and non entertainment items could originate from the main studio. This was expanded to let the station broadcast its local and non network shows from the Clear Lake studios. In 1979, the community of Clear Lake City was annexed by Houston, meaning that Houston became KLYX's official city of license. In 1982, the transmitter was moved from downtown Houston (Shell Plaza tower farm, where it had been since 1973) to the new shared tower at Missouri City. KMJQ The station was relaunched in 1977 as KMJQ, with the branding "Majic 102 FM", becoming Houston's first FM station to carry an urban contemporary format. It went on to obtain high listenership among African American audiences, as well as a diverse audience in the Houston market. KMJQ was sold by Keymarket Media to the San Diego-based Noble Broadcasting in 1988; it became co-owned with KYOK months later, which transitioned from an R&B/Soul format to a full-fledged Urban Contemporary format as "YO! 1590 Raps" in the early 1990's. In the early 1990s, KMJQ changed its branding to "Majic 102 Jams" or just simply "102 Jams". Some reggae was played in rotation during the transition, along with R&B, soul, gospel, new jack swing, jazz, funk and hip hop. It gained some competition from KHYS (now KTJM) in the mid-1980s for some time. But in 1991, KMJQ gained fierce competition from KBXX (the former KFMK) upon that station's relaunch. KBXX, then a rhythmic contemporary station (mixing in hip hop, R&B and some dance pop titles), quickly emerged as KMJQ's prime competitor for their mutual targeted audience demographic. The battle over the coveted 18-34 "urban" listening audience continued for three years, affecting KMJQ's dominance, as it fell behind KBXX and dropped in the ratings. Ownership changes The rivalry between KMJQ and KBXX ended in 1994, when KBXX was sold to