KITE (AM)

KITE
City Victoria, Texas
Broadcast area Victoria, Texas
Branding 97.5 KITE
Frequency 1410 kHz
Translator(s) 97.5 K248CS (Victoria)
First air date 1410: May 20, 1949 (as KNAL)
97.5: May 20, 2014 (as 97.3 K247BZ Port Lavaca, Texas)
Format Classic Hits
Power 1410: 500 watts day
500 watts night
ERP 97.5: 250 watts
HAAT 97.5: 53 meters
Class 1410: B
97.5: D
Facility ID 1410: 27532
97.5: 140651
Transmitter coordinates 1410: 28°46′43.00″N 97°0′13.00″W / 28.7786111°N 97.0036111°W / 28.7786111; -97.0036111Coordinates: 28°46′43.00″N 97°0′13.00″W / 28.7786111°N 97.0036111°W / 28.7786111; -97.0036111
97.5: 28°49′43.00″N 97°0′31.00″W / 28.8286111°N 97.0086111°W / 28.8286111; -97.0086111
Former callsigns KNAL (1948-1999; 2002-2014)
KYFV (1999-2002)
Owner Victoria Radioworks, LLC
Sister stations KNAL, KVIC
Website none

KITE (1410 AM) is a radio station licensed to Victoria, Texas, United States, the station serves the Victoria TX area. The station is currently owned by Victoria Radioworks, LLC.[1]

History

KITE was first proposed by Louis Thurmond "Culp" Krueger and his partners, under the licensee name Victoria Broadcasting Company in 1948. The facility received its construction permit on January 7, 1949, with a call letter assignment of KALO. Initially authorized at 500 watts, daytime operation only, from a transmit site on Bottom Street in Victoria.

The callsign was quickly changed two months later, in March 1949, to KNAL, which was chosen to honor the creation of the Victoria Barge Canal, which linked landlocked Victoria to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and other various ports around the world. The facility received it License to Cover on May 20th.

KNAL received a grant to build a second tower in 1950, giving the proposed nighttime facility a directional signal to the north at dark, in order to conduct unlimited hours broadcasting by 1951.

The KALO callsign would ultimately have its own lengthy history in Beaumont, Texas as "Kay-Lo", a vital Urban voice in Beaumont's Black community.

Louis "Culp" Krueger had previously been the driving force in signing on 1390 KULP a year earlier in El Campo. 1410 would become the group's second licensed facility, with both stations programming Country music. 1410 has maintained a Country format for the majority of its existence. The station has also utilized a Newstalk format in its past, as well as a Nostalgia/Standards format.

KNAL changed its callsign to KYVF on April 9, 1999, and returned to it heritage KNAL on February 15, 2002. KNAL and 93.3 KITE swapped stations and call letters on January 1, 2014, leading KNAL to become the current classic hits format.

Translator

In December 2014, Victoria Radio Works purchased then 97.3 K247BZ Port Lavaca from Wildcatter Wireless LLC., which included moving up one channel to 248 (97.5 MHz) to cover the City of Victoria.[2]

Call signFrequency
(MHz)		City of licenseERP
W		Height
m (ft)		ClassFCC info
K248CS97.5Victoria, Texas25053 m (174 ft)DFCC

History of call letters

The call letters KITE were previously assigned to an AM station in Kansas City. It became KXKX on July 19, 1942.[3]

The callsign has also resided in Victoria for many years now, first being assigned to 93.3 FM (now KNAL).

References

  1. ↑ "KITE Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
  2. ↑ Station Search Details, fcc.gov. Accessed February 12, 2016
  3. ↑ "New KXKX, Kansas City Takes KITE Operation" (PDF). Broadcasting. July 27, 1942. p. 18. Retrieved 3 August 2016.


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