KZNX (1530
AM) is a
radio station
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,
licensed to
Creedmoor, Texas
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Geography
Creedmoor is located at (30.092094, –97.741954), about 15 miles south of Austin.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a ...
, and serving the
Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area
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. The station is under ownership of America Telecommunications Group, Inc. It airs a
Spanish-language
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Regional Mexican
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format
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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
transmitter
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is off Dale Overton Road in the Thoroughbred Estates neighborhood of
Del Valle, Texas.
KZNX is also heard on
translator station K236AY at 95.1 MHz in
West Lake Hills, Texas
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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
watt
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s by day. But because
AM 1530
The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1530 kHz: 1530 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency. KFBK Sacramento and WCKY Cincinnati share Class A status on 1530 AM.
Angola
* D3RW in Cabinda
Argentina
* LRJ200 i ...
is a
clear channel frequency reserved for
Class A WCKY in
Cincinnati
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and
KFBK in
Sacramento
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, KZNX must significantly reduce power during
critical hours and at night.
History
The station first
signed on
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the air on December 8, 1962, as KGTN. Its original
city of license
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was
Georgetown, Texas
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Founded in 1875 from four existing colleges, the oldest of ...
, and it was owned by the Georgetown Broadcasting Company. It began as a 1,000 watt
daytimer
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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
Dan Kubiak
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. Two years later, the
Lower Colorado River Authority
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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
National Weather Service
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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
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* Leaf Rapids Airport
* Yaxham Light Railway
* the ISO 639 code for the Yalarnnga language
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) 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
Simmons Media Group
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, which flipped the frequency to sports as KZNX.
Border Media Partners
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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 FacebookFCC History Cards for KZNX
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Radio stations established in 1962
1962 establishments in Texas