KITE (AM)

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]

For the Kansas City radio station that used these call letters from 1938 to 1942, see KITE (Kansas City).
KITE
CityVictoria, Texas
Broadcast areaVictoria, Texas
Branding97.5 KITE
Frequency1410 kHz
Translator(s)97.5 K248CS (Victoria)
First air date1410: May 20, 1949 (as KNAL)
97.5: May 20, 2014 (as 97.3 K247BZ Port Lavaca, Texas)
FormatClassic Hits
Power1410: 500 watts day
500 watts night
ERP97.5: 250 watts
HAAT97.5: 53 meters
Class1410: B
97.5: D
Facility ID1410: 27532
97.5: 140651
Transmitter coordinates1410: 28°46′43.00″N 97°0′13.00″W
97.5: 28°49′43.00″N 97°0′31.00″W
Former call signsKNAL (1948-1999; 2002-2014)
KYFV (1999-2002)
OwnerVictoria Radioworks, LLC
Sister stationsKNAL, KVIC
Websitenone

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

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


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