The FCC has granted Latino Media Network’s call change request for KGBT 1530 in Harlingen. New call: KYWW. The previous KGBT call had been in use since 1954.
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KGBT 1530 call change
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Sure was. Specifically requested by McHenry Tichenor in honor of his wife, who's initials were GBT.
Since KGBT-FM isn't involved in the call change, this isn't being done to separate the LMN radio properties from Nexstar's TV station, so why they are bothering, especially with as bad a set of calls as KYWW is, would be anyone's guess.
Does the KYWW call have any particular meaning in the RGV? Seems rather random. Are they still running TUDN or have they gone to music along with some of their LMN AM siblings (KLAT, KFLC)?
Soon-to-be Puro Tejano. The calls KYWW seem to be a tribute to KIWW.
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Ah, yes. I hadn't even made the connection with the longtime Tejano format on 96.1. It's been what, 25 years or so since KIWW flipped to KBTQ "96.1 The Beat"?
And these guys think relaunching a dead format on 1530, itself a dead dial position in the RGV since around the turn of the century, and without any FM presence, is a better idea than just filling time with TUDN programming?
@DavidEduardo wasn't kidding. These fools are just clueless.
Hey, you never know, KFLC runs programming similar to KLAT by day and runs TUDN by night.
Looks like the flip to Tejano will be on March 24.
Sidebar: interestingly, mostly only in Mexico and the American Southwest is a station called an "estación". Elsewhere in Spanish speaking Latin America and even Puerto Rico, it is "emisora".
And if you go back to magazines from Argentina from the 30's, they used the term "broadcasting"... in English... for stations and the industry.
A few decades back I would see some English language references to “emissions” instead of “transmissions” from sources outside of North America, especially in a shortwave context. Same root as “emisora”. That usage seems to have disappeared.
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