KTXZ

KTXZ
City	West Lake Hills, Texas
Broadcast area	Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area
Branding	Para La Gente 1560 AM
Frequency	1560 kHz
Translator(s)	95.1 K236AY (West Lake Hills)
First air date	June 2, 1981
Format	Tejano
Power	2,500 watts
Class	B
Facility ID	59278
Callsign meaning	K TeXaZ
Owner	Encino Broadcasting (Encino Broadcasting LLC)
Sister stations	KELG, KOKE

KTXZ is an AM radio station, operating at 1560 kHz, licensed to West Lake Hills, Texas, and is owned by Encino Broadcasting LLC. The station airs a Tejano music format. A transmitter site is located in Northeast Austin and the station has studios along Loop 360 in Southwest Austin.

KTXZ was purchased by Encino Broadcasting LLC, along with KELG and KOKE on September 24, 2007.

History

KTXZ signed on the air on June 2, 1981 as the sole radio station licensed to West Lake Hills, Texas by former KTBC/7 newscaster Neal Spelce. The station originally played a middle-of-the-road music format called The Music of Your Life. It later changed to a hybrid of oldies rock & roll and current local music under the moniker All Star Rock & Roll.

KTXZ established itself as a Spanish-language radio station on September 1, 1986 when it began broadcasting a Tejano music format which also incorporated pop and country to appeal to Texas-born Hispanics. Fred Cantu, now a popular TV news anchor in Austin, was the program director of KTXZ through these early format changes.

The station remained in the hands of Neal Spelce until it was sold to Dynamic Radio Broadcasting Corporation, which was founded by Jose Jaime Garcia, Sr., on September 1, 1994. Dynamic was as the time KTXZ's chief competitor already operating Spanish-language stations KKLB, KELG and KFON. On January 3, 2005 Dynamic Broadcasting sold all four radio stations to Border Media Partners for $19,000,000.

The Garcia family, now operating as Encino Broadcasting, repurchased KELG and KTXZ along with KOKE from Border Media Partners for $5,500,000 on September 24, 2007. Until recently, KTXZ played a Latin alternative rock format under the moniker of "Planeta 1560".

On the night of August 29, 2008 KTXZ switched formats to Tejano music.^[1]

References

↑ "Making Moves: Friday Afternoon". Radio-Info.com. August 29, 2008.

External links

FCC History Cards for KTXZ

Query the FCC's AM station database for KTXZ

Radio-Locator Information on KTXZ

Radio stations in Austin, Texas

By AM frequency	590 970 1060¹ 1120 1260 1300 1370 1440 1490 1530 1560 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.5 89.9 90.5 91.7 91.7 91.9 92.1 92.5 93.3 93.7 94.7 95.1 95.5 96.3 96.7 98.1 98.5 98.9 99.3 99.7 100.1 100.7 101.5 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 104.3 104.9 105.3 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.1 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 (Austin)

By callsign	K242CC KAMX KASE-FM KAZI KBPA KDRP-LP KELG KFIT¹ KFMK KGSR KHFI-FM KIXL KJCE KKMJ-FM KLBJ KLBJ-FM KLGO KLJA KLLR KLQB KLZT KMFA KMLR KNLE-FM KOKE KOKE-FM KOOP KPEZ KROX-FM KTAE KTSW KTXW KTXX-FM KTXZ KUT KUTX KVET KVET-FM KVLR KVRX KXPW-LP KYLR KZNX WXK27

Defunct	KUOL/1470

Nearby radio markets Bryan–College Station Dallas–Fort Worth Houston–Galveston Kerrville–Fredericksburg Killeen–Temple San Antonio Victoria Waco See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Daytime-only AM radio station.

Coordinates: 30°21′38″N 97°39′11″W / 30.36056°N 97.65306°W / 30.36056; -97.65306

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