ESNE Radio is a Spanish-language

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network based in the United States, owned by El Sembrador Ministries. Headquartered in

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, a suburb of Los Angeles, ESNE broadcasts on 14 stations in the United States, Mexico and Spain. ESNE also broadcasts a Spanish-language television channel, ESNE TV, launched in 2002.

History

On March 1, 2003, El Sembrador, led by founder Noel Díaz, began programming KHPY (1670 AM) in

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, under a time brokerage agreement; it purchased that station in 2008. Díaz had previously started a weekly Catholic radio program, ''Dimensión de Fe'' (Dimension of Faith), in 1990. In 2013, the network acquired KRXA, serving

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; the next year, it began brokering time on KURS in San Diego, later buying that station in 2016. A second southern California signal was acquired in 2015 when it picked up KTYM after

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instead bought another Los Angeles outlet. El Sembrador expanded into Utah by buying

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's 1430 AM—then KLO—for $260,000 in 2020. A third station in the Central Coast region of California will be added when the ministry closes on its purchase of

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(880 AM) in

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, from Monterey County Broadcasters. Additionally, in September 2020, El Sembrador filed to buy KDCO (1340 AM) in

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—though not its associated FM translator—for $420,000.

Stations

United States

Mexico

XEBBB-AM XEBBB-AM is a radio station on 1040 AM in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. It is owned by Promomedios and carries the Catholic programming of ESNE Radio. History XEBBB received its concession on February 24, 1972 as XECX-AM. The 5 kW daytimer b ...

1040,

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Spain

*88.2 FM,

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*104.9 FM,

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