facility, with the Commission deferring the license renewal pending further consideration on July 25, 1962. This would lead the facility to go silent under temporary authorization for lengthy periods of time during the next 3 years. 1330 goes Country; Top 40 comes to 1490 On December 20, 1965, KDOK Broadcasting Company purchased controlling interest of KGKB, requesting the now available call set of KDOK which was relinquished on 1330 as a part of a sale of that facility, and also resulted in a switch from Top 40 to Country music, while also obtaining a new call of KZAK. KDOK Broadcasting Company would bring 1490 back to life with the Top 40 format and calls, while also moving the transmission site and studios to the current Loop 323 location, and increased the overall height of the single tower. The changes were completed and officially licensed by the FCC on June 28, 1966. In July 1967, a new Gates BC-1G transmitter was installed at the Loop 323 tower site, and the resistor was removed in the antenna system. Approval for the changes was granted on August 1, 1967. Ten years later, the transmitter was again changed to a Gates MW-1A in July 1977. On October 10, 1967, KDOK would be granted an increase in power to the current 1 kilowatt for daytime operations, while the night power remained at 250 watts. Barbee would transfer KDOK to Dana Adams in 1966, after a failed attempt of Buford Broadcasting to re-acquire the facility, which was dismissed by the Commission, under the continued licensee name of KDOK Broadcasting Company. It was sold by Mary Adams, executrix of the Dana Adams estate, to Copper Valley Broadcasters, Inc. in 1980 after the death of Dana Adams in 1973, and then transferred again to Golden Eagle Broadcasters, Inc in 1981. Golden Eagle would continue to program the Top 40 format, although adding in some elements of Adult Contemporary music, as AM radio music listening was beginning to wane in the early 1980s. During this period, they would install a Magnavox AM Stereo exciter into the MW-1A in 1983, giving 1490 its first stereo broadcast during its lifetime. This would later be switched to the Motorola C-QUAM unit by 1988. 1490 continued to broadcast in AM Stereo until 1993. KDOK would continue to program the famed Top 40 format in Tyler for nearly 25 years, facing various forms of