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| Broadcast area | El Paso area |
| Frequency | 750 kHz |
| Branding | KAMA 750AM |
| Programming | |
| Format | English classic hits |
| Ownership | |
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| Sister stations | KBNA-FM, KQBU |
| History | |
| First air date | July 11, 1985 (1985-07-11) |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 36948 |
| Class | B |
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| Transmitter coordinates | 31°46′30″N 106°16′48″W / 31.77500°N 106.28000°W / 31.77500; -106.28000 |
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| Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | kama750am |
KAMA (750 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish news/talk/music format. Licensed to El Paso, Texas, United States, the station serves the El Paso area. The station is owned by 97.5 Licensee TX, LLC, an American subsidiary of Grupo Radio Centro.
The nighttime signal of KAMA reduces power to 1 kilowatt and becomes highly directional to the west in order to protect the skywave signal of WSB in Atlanta. WSB is a Class A dominant station on 750 AM, a United States and Canadian clear-channel frequency shared with CBGY in Bonavista, Newfoundland and Labrador. is the Canadian Class A station on 750 AM.
History
The station went on the air on July 11, 1985. It served as a relocation of KAMA, which had been at 1060 (later KXPL) and aired a Spanish-language format with a heritage stretching to Juárez's XELO-AM. The move to 750 allowed KAMA to stop being a daytimer and created a new station, KFNA, at 1060.
The station was sold to Tichenor Media, operator of longtime rival KBNA, in 1994. Tichenor merged into Heftel Broadcasting in 1997, changed name to Hispanic Broadcasting Corp in 2000, and merged into Univision Communications in 2003.
For a time, beginning in 2012, KAMA was the El Paso outlet for the Univision America talk network, a format later moved to sister KQBU at 920 AM.
In 2016, Univision Radio exited El Paso by selling its stations to affiliates of Mexican radio broadcaster Grupo Radio Centro for $2 million, with GRC taking over operations via LMA on November 8. Rafael Márquez, a United States citizen, owns 75 percent of the licensee, 97.5 Licensee TX, LLC, with the remainder being owned by Grupo Radio Centro TX, LLC.
References
- "Facility Technical Data for KAMA". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- "CBGY Broadcast Information". fccdata.org. Retrieved August 27, 2024.
- "KAMA-AM gets ready for expansion". El Paso Times. July 11, 1985. p. 4-C. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
- Univision To Launch National Talk Network - Radio Insight (Released May 30, 2012)
- Venta, Lance (10 November 2016). "Grupo Radio Centro Acquires Univision's El Paso Cluster". RadioInsight. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
External links
- Facility details for Facility ID 36948 (KAMA) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
- KAMA in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
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