Can anyone recall what year 93.1 KISS FM debuted in El Paso? Did it launch with the Hot AC format?
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KSII History Question
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According to the old Broadcasting Yearbooks:
93.1 originally began in 1975 as KAMA-FM, a sister station to KAMA 750.
But it quickly went its own way as KAMZ doing adult contemporary. It later shifted to classic rock.
In 1995 it was bought by New Wave Communications which installed the KSII calls and an AC format.
The 1997 yearbook is the first to list the format as Hot Adult Contemporary.
Don't you wish stations would post this kind of stuff on wiki instead of just their current info?
93.1 originally began in 1975 as KAMA-FM, a sister station to KAMA 750.
But it quickly went its own way as KAMZ doing adult contemporary. It later shifted to classic rock.
In 1995 it was bought by New Wave Communications which installed the KSII calls and an AC format.
The 1997 yearbook is the first to list the format as Hot Adult Contemporary.
Don't you wish stations would post this kind of stuff on wiki instead of just their current info?
Indeed I do! That's always frustrated me. Thanks so much, Fred!
theradioexpert said:
I believe its history was as regional Mexican KAMA-FM that became KAMZ "93Z" in 1982. It was CHR "93Z" during most of the 1980s (in 1986 when the format was hot, El Paso had 4 CHRs -- KFIM 92.3 "92K", KAMZ, KEZB 93.9 "B94", and KSET 94.7). It shifted to hot AC, like a lot of CHRs did in the early 1990s. In 1993, it flipped from hot AC to classic rock "Z93.1." The flip to KSII "Kiss FM" occurred in 1995 as hot AC.
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