KZNX (1530 AM) is a

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, and serving the

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. The station is under ownership of America Telecommunications Group, Inc. It airs a

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. Religious hosts pay the station a fee for airing their programs on KZNX, during which they may ask for donations to their ministry. The

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is off Dale Overton Road in the Thoroughbred Estates neighborhood of

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. KZNX is also heard on

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K236AY at 95.1 MHz in

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. KZNX 1530 AM and translator station K236AY 95.1 FM are currently being operated and managed by La Palabra Radio. KZNX is powered at 10,000

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s by day. But because

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is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A WCKY in

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and KFBK in

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, KZNX must significantly reduce power during

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and at night.

History

The station first

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the air on December 8, 1962, as KGTN. Its original

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was

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, and it was owned by the Georgetown Broadcasting Company. It began as a 1,000 watt

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, required to go off the air at night. In 1991, KGTN became KOPY with a Christian format, owned by state representative

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. Two years later, the

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acquired KOPY; the public utility's acquisition of the radio station, which had previously gone silent, came in the wake of 1991 floods in the region that required more timely dissemination of information than the region's weekly newspapers and coverage-limited radio stations could provide. Under LCRA's ownership, 1530 returned to the air in March 1995 as KWTR, running automated weather and river information and later including additional community information. Public response to KWTR was "fairly good", but the river authority ultimately decided that working with the

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was more cost-effective, and in April 1997, KWTR gave way to "K-News", an all-news radio station owned by Yellow Rose Communications alongside 92.1 KIKY (now KYLR) LCRA sold the station for $632,000; new KNEZ call letters were instituted in April 1997. KNEZ did not last long; in 1998, the station became KQQA, a simulcast of KQQQ (the former KIKY). The two stations aired a Regional Mexican format known as La Nueva. Yellow Rose sold KQQA in 2004 to

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, which flipped the frequency to sports as KZNX.

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bought the station in 2010 and sold it two years later to America Telecommunications Group, a company 25 percent owned by José Pérez Ramírez of Mexican station group Promomedios.

Translators

References

External links

La Palabra Radio Facebook

FCC History Cards for KZNX
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