KYST
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City | Texas City |
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Broadcast area | Greater Houston |
Branding | La Nueve Veinte |
Slogan | "Para Mi Gente" |
Frequency | 920 kHz |
First air date | November 1, 1948 |
Format | Spanish News/Information/Sports |
Language(s) | Spanish |
Power |
5,000 Watts (day) 1,000 Watts (night) |
Class | B |
Facility ID | 27298 |
Transmitter coordinates | 29°25′3″N 94°56′12″W / 29.41750°N 94.93667°W |
Former callsigns | KTLW (1948-1980) |
Owner | Hispanic Broadcasting, Inc. |
Website | La 920 Website |
KYST, branded as "La Nueve Veinte", is a Houston, Texas, area AM radio station, licensed to Texas City, that broadcasts news, information, and sports in Spanish. The station broadcasts on AM frequency 920 kHz and is under ownership of Hispanic Broadcasting, Inc..
History
The station went on the air in November 1948 as 92 KTLW. In the 1960s and 1970s, it aired a Top 40 format. In 1980, the call letters were changed to KYST. In 1982, while officially known as KYST, it billed itself as "Beatle Radio Number 9 KBTL" and had a format of all Beatles music. From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s it ran a Tejano format, as AM 920 KYST. It currently airs a Spanish Full Service format and is the longest continuously owned and operated radio station in the market.
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for KYST
- Radio-Locator Information on KYST
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KYST