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LMN Takes over 1350

Is the format going to change as well? I understand that KCOR is important to San Antonio’s radio history but some can say the same for KXTN. Looks like the final nail in the coffin for the once Tejano and Proud station.
 
Aquarius said:
Is the format going to change as well? I understand that KCOR is important to San Antonio’s radio history but some can say the same for KXTN. Looks like the final nail in the coffin for the once Tejano and Proud station.
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The Tejano format will disappear from 1350. The new owners are launching a talk format in the near future on most of the stations they’ve acquired.

No idea if Tejano would continue on KVBH 107.5 HD-2.

Curious what will happen on the music FMs LMN now owns, such as KFZO 99.1 in DFW. LMN also has KFLC 1270 in that market, which will dump the current TUDN Sports for the new talk output.
 
I may be thinking of another station, but in the '60's when spending a week in Kerrville each summer seems to me that 1350 was programming a country format with the KCOR calls.
 
Aquarius said:
Is the format going to change as well?
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The imaging and voiceover has changed. It seems that the legendary voice of Joe Morales is no longer being used, which is a shame. The new voiceover guy sounds familiar. I'm guessing I've heard him somewhere else in South Texas.

For now, the station is still playing Tejano and calling itself "KXTN". They are identifying as a Latino Media Network station at the TOH and have dropped all mentions of "107.5 HD2" that were prominent earlier this year. My guess is the station will serve as LMN's "test location" where programming/engineering kinks will be worked out before launching nationwide. I'm assuming shows will begin airing as they launch with Tejano as filler for now.

Kind of odd they didn't just kill the KXTN format. Tejano listeners are not going to stick around for political propaganda in Spanish (or any talk in Spanish for that matter). But I suppose George Soros being a proud part-owner of a Tejano station will serve as a good trivia question in the future.
 
WCJ said:
I may be thinking of another station, but in the '60's when spending a week in Kerrville each summer seems to me that 1350 was programming a country format with the KCOR calls.
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This was Raoul Cortez' station that went on the air in Spanish in the late 40's and has been in the Spanish language (or "Spanglish" under the Tejano format) since then. "COR" sands for the first letters of the owner's name.
 
LMN has already hired a Regional Mexican program director and has begun to relocate talents. Regional Mexican stations for the most part will keep the format and Lmn has also promoted one of the Mcallen talents as pd for the Tejano format in San Antonio so I would expect it to stick around for a while. odd move is that some of the REGIONAL MEXICAN TALENTS are being relocated to California .
 
radioislife2020 said:
LMN has already hired a Regional Mexican program director and has begun to relocate talents. Regional Mexican stations for the most part will keep the format and Lmn has also promoted one of the Mcallen talents as pd for the Tejano format in San Antonio so I would expect it to stick around for a while. odd move is that some of the REGIONAL MEXICAN TALENTS are being relocated to California .
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"Tejano" is not the same as "Regional Mexican". Univision did not have a Tejano format in the LRGV, so I don't know who they would have had in that market with Tejano format experience.
 
WCJ said:
I may be thinking of another station, but in the '60's when spending a week in Kerrville each summer seems to me that 1350 was programming a country format with the KCOR calls.
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Perhaps you are thinking of the old KBUC 1310 which was a Country station in those days. I remember KCOR as being Spanish language in the 1960s as the signal made it into Austin, albeit poorly.
radioislife2020 said:
LMN has already hired a Regional Mexican program director and has begun to relocate talents. Regional Mexican stations for the most part will keep the format and Lmn has also promoted one of the Mcallen talents as pd for the Tejano format in San Antonio so I would expect it to stick around for a while. odd move is that some of the REGIONAL MEXICAN TALENTS are being relocated to California .
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LMN is supposedly launching talk formats on the AMs it has purchased. I suspect there is some confusion here.

LMN could possibly continue the existing music formats on the FMs it now owns, such as in the RGV and DFW. I had mentioned KFZO earlier.
 
BamaTX said:
I suppose George Soros being a proud part-owner of a Tejano station will serve as a good trivia question in the future.
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Except he's not a part owner. A foundation he supports provided some funding. But neither he nor the foundation have any ownership.

Politically, San Antonio is about 60% Democrat. The mayor ran as independent, but he's fairly progressive.
 
DavidEduardo said:
"Tejano" is not the same as "Regional Mexican". Univision did not have a Tejano format in the LRGV, so I don't know who they would have had in that market with Tejano format experience.
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Never said the new pd had been a tejano pd but i do know he had worked for the radio centro regional mexican station in el paso and then had moved over to the valley
 
radioislife2020 said:
Never said the new pd had been a tejano pd but i do know he had worked for the radio centro regional mexican station in el paso and then had moved over to the valley
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Totally different format.
 
TheBigA said:
Except he's not a part owner. A foundation he supports provided some funding. But neither he nor the foundation have any ownership.
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For now, he has a miniscule interest in the station. LMN received a loan from the George Soros linked firm.
 
DavidEduardo said:
...so I don't know who they would have had in that market with Tejano format experience.
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Would it make a difference at this point? I don't think having an experienced Tejano PD is LMN's priority right now. Hell, they're probably more interested in getting their employees to list their pronouns on emails and business cards.
 
TheBigA said:
That doesn't make him a part owner. Indirectly the same company funded Skype and Spotify.
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But he does hold interest in everything his money funds, even if the money has passed through another company he also holds interest and/or ownership in.
 
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