KJIN
| City | Houma, Louisiana |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Houma/Thibodaux Metropolitan area |
| Branding | La Caliente |
| Frequency | 1490 kHz |
| First air date | 1953 |
| Format | Regional Mexican |
| Power | 1,000 watts |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 25521 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′14″N 90°43′42″W / 29.57056°N 90.72833°WCoordinates: 29°34′14″N 90°43′42″W / 29.57056°N 90.72833°W |
| Owner |
James Anderson (My Home Team Media, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KCIL, KXOR-FM |
KJIN is a 1,000 watt AM station in Houma, Louisiana, broadcasting a regional Mexican format.
History
This station was originally KCIL in the 1950s. This station however, has held the KJIN callsign for most of the past 30 years except for a 2½ year period between 2000 and 2003 when it held KFXY which was the former callsign of today's KCIL. For most of its recent past, it was an Am sister relay to KCIL, however the former owners Guaranty broadcasting, installed the ESPN sports format on the station to provide listeners in the area with a sports station that was listenable in the Houma area as the nearest sports stations were up to 50 miles away at the time. In 2006 the station was purchased by Sunburst Media - Louisiana and continued broadcasting ESPN sports programming until 2014 when it changed to Fox Sports. In March of 2015, KJIN began programming Spanish language La Calliente which supports the Mexican population in the listening area in and around Houma, as well as the western outskirts of New Orleans.
Effective November 11, 2015, KJIN (along with co-owned KCIL and KXOR-FM) was sold to James Anderson's My Home Team Media, LLC.
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KJIN
- Radio-Locator Information on KJIN
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KJIN
KJIN Radio Request from 1974 - http://www.guyfanguy.com/webpages/radiorequest.asp