KXTN (1350

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) is a

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broadcasting a

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. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the

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. The station is owned and operated by Latino Media Network, under the license of Latino Media Network, LLC. Its transmitter are located separately in Northwest San Antonio.

History

KCOR first

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in 1946 as a 1,000-

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, owned by

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. The original

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contained the first three letters of his last name. The station has been mostly Hispanic-owned and programmed through its seven-plus decades on the air, airing Tejano and

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. In 2003, the station was acquired by

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, a

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of the top Spanish-language television network in the United States,

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. Univision later switched the format to Spanish-language

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, mostly from its own radio network. On December 20, 2016, Univision announced that KCOR would be one of the charter

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s of the company's new Spanish-language sports network,

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. The launch occurred in March 2017. From 2014 to 2015, the station had been

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ing the

music format of co-owned KXTN-FM and used the KXTN

. With the switch to sports, the call sign returned to KCOR. In April 2019, KCOR dropped its longtime call sign, as well as the Univision Deportes Network, beginning a

with Tejano

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KXTN-FM, becoming KXTN in the process. On April 12, 2019, at 5:00 p.m., the two stations ended their simulcast, leaving the Tejano format solely on AM 1350 and on an

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subchannel of 107.5, now known as KVBH-HD2. The FM station switched its call sign to KVBH, airing a

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format. On June 3, 2022, Univision announced it would sell a package of 18 radio stations across 10 of its markets, primarily AM outlets in large cities (including KXTN) and entire clusters in smaller markets such as

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, and

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, for $60 million to a new company known as Latino Media Network (LMN); Univision proposed to handle operations for a year under agreement before turning over operational control to LMN in the fourth quarter of 2023. The sale was consummated on December 30, 2022. Latino Media Network took control of operations of KXTN at the end of September 2023.

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