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KXPL
KXPL (1060 AM) was a radio station licensed to El Paso, Texas, United States. The station was owned by New Radio System, Inc., a United States corporation operating the station on behalf of Mexican radio station operator Radiorama, which had a partial ownership stake.
The station had been silent since June 30, 2020, for economic reasons.
Jack R. McVeigh received a construction permit for a new 10,000-watt, daytime-only radio station in El Paso on August 20, 1971. KAMA signed on July 13, 1972; it was one of the affiliates of the short-lived Mutual Spanish Network and was the only Spanish-language station based in El Paso. January 1, 1976, brought the launch of an FM counterpart, KAMA-FM 93.1, also broadcasting in Spanish with salsa and tropical music. KAMA was a highly successful station in the second half of the 1970s, leading the El Paso radio ratings in each year between 1975 and 1979.
McVeigh sold KAMA-AM-FM in 1981 to Thrash Broadcasting, Inc., of Georgia. Thrash flipped KAMA-FM to an English-language format as KAMZ "93Z" in April 1982.
In 1982, the Federal Communications Commission made available the 750 kHz frequency for use in the El Paso area. Unlike at 1060, a clear channel frequency assigned to Mexico City's XEEP-AM, a station on 750 could broadcast at night. Thrash made a bid for the new license, which had four applicants. In 1985, one went bankrupt, and the remaining three reached an agreement by which Thrash would win the 750 frequency in a merger with the El Paso Radio Corporation. Competitor Fina Broadcast House Corporation—owned by El Paso Spanish-language radio pioneer John S. Chávez, Jr., whose KOYE was the first Spanish-language radio station in El Paso—bought the 1060 license from Thrash.
At 5:30 p.m. on July 11, 1985, KAMA moved to 750 AM. Two months later, on September 16, the new 1060 station began operation as KFNA "Radio Fina", with a Spanish-language oldies format playing music of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The format failed to attract listeners; less than 18 months after launching, Fina filed for bankruptcy protection, declaring $377,000 in assets to $716,000 in liabilities and with several court judgments against the company; a search for a buyer began.
It would be some time before the bankruptcy case was resolved. In November 1990, the court-appointed trustee for Fina Broadcast House filed to sell KFNA—by then silent—to K-Fina Results, Inc., a company owned by Roberto Corral, Armando de León, Jr., Aida Mangas de Otañez, and Enriqueta Gómez; Mangas was a resident of Ciudad Juárez, while the other three were El Paso investors. In January 1993, the station began broadcasting the audio of CNN Headline News. However, after a year of lackluster results, the station abruptly returned to Spanish in January 1994 as "Radio del Norte", laying off a dozen staffers in the process.
On January 3, 2000, KFNA became KXPL; the station was known as Radio Sol.
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KXPL
KXPL (1060 AM) was a radio station licensed to El Paso, Texas, United States. The station was owned by New Radio System, Inc., a United States corporation operating the station on behalf of Mexican radio station operator Radiorama, which had a partial ownership stake.
The station had been silent since June 30, 2020, for economic reasons.
Jack R. McVeigh received a construction permit for a new 10,000-watt, daytime-only radio station in El Paso on August 20, 1971. KAMA signed on July 13, 1972; it was one of the affiliates of the short-lived Mutual Spanish Network and was the only Spanish-language station based in El Paso. January 1, 1976, brought the launch of an FM counterpart, KAMA-FM 93.1, also broadcasting in Spanish with salsa and tropical music. KAMA was a highly successful station in the second half of the 1970s, leading the El Paso radio ratings in each year between 1975 and 1979.
McVeigh sold KAMA-AM-FM in 1981 to Thrash Broadcasting, Inc., of Georgia. Thrash flipped KAMA-FM to an English-language format as KAMZ "93Z" in April 1982.
In 1982, the Federal Communications Commission made available the 750 kHz frequency for use in the El Paso area. Unlike at 1060, a clear channel frequency assigned to Mexico City's XEEP-AM, a station on 750 could broadcast at night. Thrash made a bid for the new license, which had four applicants. In 1985, one went bankrupt, and the remaining three reached an agreement by which Thrash would win the 750 frequency in a merger with the El Paso Radio Corporation. Competitor Fina Broadcast House Corporation—owned by El Paso Spanish-language radio pioneer John S. Chávez, Jr., whose KOYE was the first Spanish-language radio station in El Paso—bought the 1060 license from Thrash.
At 5:30 p.m. on July 11, 1985, KAMA moved to 750 AM. Two months later, on September 16, the new 1060 station began operation as KFNA "Radio Fina", with a Spanish-language oldies format playing music of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The format failed to attract listeners; less than 18 months after launching, Fina filed for bankruptcy protection, declaring $377,000 in assets to $716,000 in liabilities and with several court judgments against the company; a search for a buyer began.
It would be some time before the bankruptcy case was resolved. In November 1990, the court-appointed trustee for Fina Broadcast House filed to sell KFNA—by then silent—to K-Fina Results, Inc., a company owned by Roberto Corral, Armando de León, Jr., Aida Mangas de Otañez, and Enriqueta Gómez; Mangas was a resident of Ciudad Juárez, while the other three were El Paso investors. In January 1993, the station began broadcasting the audio of CNN Headline News. However, after a year of lackluster results, the station abruptly returned to Spanish in January 1994 as "Radio del Norte", laying off a dozen staffers in the process.
On January 3, 2000, KFNA became KXPL; the station was known as Radio Sol.