KRCW (96.3 FM, ''La Maquina'') is an American

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

licensed to serve the

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Royal City, Washington Royal City is a city in Grant County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,776 at the 2020 census. History Royal City was founded in 1956 and officially incorporated on February 14, 1962. The townsite was previously named Royal Flats ...

, since 1999. The station is owned by

Bustos Media Bustos Media L.L.C. is a media corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Bustos Media specializes in operating Spanish-language, and other ethnic, radio stations in the United States. Most of its stations broadcast in Spanish; however, two ...

, through licensee Bustos Media Holdings, LLC.

Programming

KRCW broadcasts a

Regional Mexican Regional Mexican is a Latin music radio format encompassing the musical genres from the different parts of rural Mexico and the Southwestern United States. Genres include banda, country en español, Duranguense, grupero, mariachi, New Mex ...

music

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branded as "La Maquina".

History

In March 1992, the Northwest Communities Educational Center applied to the

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(FCC) for a

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for a new broadcast radio station. The FCC granted this permit on October 15, 1992, with a scheduled expiration date of April 15, 1994. The new station was assigned

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KQVN on December 3, 1992. The station was assigned new call sign KRCW on May 6, 1994. In November 1997, the Northwest Communities Educational Center reached an agreement to transfer the permit for KRCW to Farmworker Educational Radio Network, Inc. The FCC approved the deal on December 17, 1997, and the transaction was consummated on March 30, 1998. After a series of delays and extensions, construction and testing were completed in September 1999, the station was granted its

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on December 9, 1999. Effective October 8, 2019, the Cesar Chavez Foundation (parent of licensee Farmworker Educational Radio Network, Inc.) sold KRCW to

for $200,000.

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* {{Bustos Media RCW RCW Regional Mexican radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1999 Grant County, Washington 1999 establishments in Washington (state)