KXYZ

KXYZ
City	Houston, Texas
Broadcast area	Greater Houston
Branding	KXYZ 1320
Frequency	1320 kHz
First air date	August 24, 1926
Format	Brokered
Power	10 kilowatts (day), 5 kilowatts (night) directional, 2 patterns
Class	B
Facility ID	234009
Transmitter coordinates	29°42′39″N 95°10′30″W / 29.71083°N 95.17500°W / 29.71083; -95.17500
Callsign meaning	XYZ, last three letters of the alphabet, variant of former sister station WXYZ
Former callsigns	KTUE (1926-1930)
Owner	Multicultural Broadcasting (Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	KCHN
Website	kxyzradio.com

KXYZ is an AM radio station in Greater Houston, which broadcasts on 1320 kHz under ownership of Multicultural Broadcasting. KXYZ features brokered programming, in which station management sells airtime by the hour to interested third parties wishing to broadcast over the air. The transmitter is in Pasadena, Texas.

History

On June 17, 1948, the Federal Communications Commission approved purchase of Harris County Broadcasting Company, owners of KXYZ, by Shamrock Broadcasting Company, owned by Glenn H. McCarthy.^[1]

During the 1960s, KXYZ was owned by ABC and played beautiful music. The station was well known in the 1960s for its vividly descriptive station identification promos, such as:

"In Houston's downtown area, lifeless mannequins draped in the latest attire stand stiff and silent in the shops, which a few hours ago buzzed with the excitement of bargain-hunting shoppers... now relaxing at home to Beautiful KXYZ Music."

"The almost-deserted parking garage is lonely and unfamiliar to a late-staying office worker, whose footsteps echo as he walks to his car and turns on the radio. And the lonely feeling is dispelled by Beautiful KXYZ Music."

In the mid-1970s, the format changed to pop music. Around 1980 it changed over to a Christian station.

In 1983, Infinity absorbed KXYZ. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, it was a Spanish language contemporary music station known as "Radio 13" that was owned by Infinity Broadcasting (now CBS Radio). During this period, KXYZ carried Houston Astros games in Spanish. KXYZ then carried the Spanish Talk format of satellite network Radio Unica. Multicultural Broadcasting bought KXYZ from Infinity/CBS and Biz Radio made its debut in the early years of the 2000s (decade).

Biz Radio left KXYZ for KTEK in Alvin, Texas. It purchased KTEK and began signal testing in November 2007 simulcasting with KXYZ until December 11, 2007. The only drawback of the move to KTEK is that its signal is only licensed to broadcast during the daytime, while KXYZ has nighttime authorization.

References

↑ "McCarthy Completes Purchase of KXYZ" (PDF). Broadcasting. June 28, 1948. Retrieved 21 December 2014.

External links

KXYZ 1320 - Official Website

Radio stations in Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown

by FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.7 89.3 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.9 93.3 93.7 94.5 95.7 96.5 96.9 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.5 99.1 99.7 99.9 100.3 100.7 101.1 102.1 102.9 103.7 104.1 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.5 106.9 107.5 107.9

by AM frequency	560 610 650¹ 700 740 790 850 880 900¹ 920 950 980 1010 1050¹ 1070 1090¹ 1110¹ 1140¹ 1180 1230 1320 1360 1380 1400 1430 1460 1480 1500 1520¹ 1540 1560 1590 1610 1670 1680

Digital radio	790 950

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 (Houston) 162.550 (Galveston)

by callsign	KACC KAFR KAMA-FM KANI KBME KBRZ KBXX KCHN¹ KCOH KEYH KFNC KFTG KGBC KGG68 KGLK KGOL KGOW KHB40 KHCB KHCB-FM KHJK KHMX KHPT KIKK¹ KILT KILT-FM KJIC KJOZ KKBQ KKHH KKHT-FM KLAT KLOL KLTN KLVI KLVL KMIC KMJQ KNTH KODA KOVE-FM KPFT KPRC KPVU KQBT KQBU-FM KQQK KQUE KRBE KRCM KREH¹ KROI KSBJ KSEV KSHJ KSHN KTBZ-FM KTEK¹ KTHT KTJM KTRH KTSU KTWL KUHF KULF¹ KVST KWWJ KXBJ KXNG KXYZ KYND¹ KYOK¹ KYST

Defunct	KSTB 101.5 FM

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 226 Sirius Channel 154 Nearby radio markets Austin Bay City–Freeport Beaumont–Port Arthur Bryan–College Station Corpus Christi Huntsville San Antonio Victoria See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Daytime-only AM radio station.

Multicultural Broadcasting

Radio stations	KAHZ KALI KALI-FM KARI KATD KAZN KBLA KCHN KDFT KEST KFSG KIQI KLIB KMNY KMRB KSJX KVRI KWRU KXPA KXYZ WATB WAZN WEXY WFBR WGFS WHWH WJCC WJDM WKDM WLXE WLYN WNMA WPAT WTTM WWRU WZHF WZRC

Television stations	KILM (SonLife)²

¹ Controlled by Lincoln Financial Media under LMA.

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