KELG

KELG
City	Manor, Texas
Broadcast area	Austin metropolitan area
Branding	'La Palabra 1440 AM"
Slogan	Un Nuevo Comienzo"
Frequency	1440 kHz
First air date	April 1, 1980
Format	Spanish Christian
Power	800 watts day 500 watts night
Class	B
Callsign meaning	K ELGin
Owner	Encino Broadcasting (Encino Broadcasting LLC)
Sister stations	KOKE, KTXZ

KELG is an Austin, Texas, radio station, licensed to Manor, Texas, and is owned by Encino Broadcasting. The station airs a Spanish-language Contemporary Christian music format.

Personalities

The station currently has no personalities.

History

KELG signed on the air on April 1, 1980 as the sole radio station licensed to Elgin, Texas. The station was founded by a local group of Elgin, Texas business owners headed by Fred Lundgren. Lundgren also headed a group that moved KCAA (the one time 1050 at Big Bear, CA) to Loma Linda, California.

KELG was sold on March 4, 1982 to Longcrier Communications (Steven Longcrier).

In 1985, Longcrier sold KELG to Jose Jaime Garcia, Sr.

Garcia, Sr also founded KMXX 102.3 mHz in August 1976.

KELG 1440 kHz was the first AM full-time to service the Austin Hispanic community. Dynamic Radio Broadcasting Corporation would later add a FM radio station on August 14, 1992 KKLB 92.5 MHz – Elgin, Texas known as “Club 92.5FM”, On September 1, 1994 it would acquire KTXZ 1560 kHz – Westlake Hills, Texas then known as “Austin’s Original Tejano Music Station” and finally on March 29, 2000 it acquired KFON 1490 kHz – Austin, Texas then known as Sportsfan 1490”.

In 1997, KELG completed a major upgrade to increase power and to change the city of license from Elgin, Texas to Manor, Texas.

After nearly 20 years of operations, Dynamic Radio Broadcasting Corporation, owners of KKLB, KTXZ, KELG and KFON sold all four radio stations to Border Media Partners on January 3, 2005 for $19,000,000.

KELG was purchased by Encino Broadcasting LLC, along with KOKE, and KTXZ on September 24, 2007 for $5.5 million.^[1]

References

↑ "Encino Broadcasting Buys A Texas AM Trio". Radio-Info.com. October 19, 2007.

External links

Radio stations in Austin, Texas

By AM frequency	590 970 1060¹ 1120 1260 1300 1370 1440 1490 1530 1560 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.7 89.5 89.9 90.5 91.7 91.7 91.9 92.1 92.5 93.3 93.7 94.7 95.1 95.5 96.3 96.7 98.1 98.5 98.9 99.3 99.7 100.1 100.7 101.5 102.3 102.7 103.1 103.5 104.3 104.9 105.3 105.9 106.3 106.7 107.1 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 (Austin)

By callsign	K242CC KAMX KASE-FM KAZI KBPA KDRP-LP KELG KFIT¹ KFMK KGSR KHFI-FM KIXL KJCE KKMJ-FM KLBJ KLBJ-FM KLGO KLJA KLLR KLQB KLZT KMFA KMLR KNLE-FM KOKE KOKE-FM KOOP KPEZ KROX-FM KTAE KTSW KTXW KTXX-FM KTXZ KUT KUTX KVET KVET-FM KVLR KVRX KXPW-LP KYLR KZNX WXK27

Defunct	KUOL/1470

Nearby radio markets Bryan–College Station Dallas–Fort Worth Houston–Galveston Kerrville–Fredericksburg Killeen–Temple San Antonio Victoria Waco See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Daytime-only AM radio station.

Coordinates: 30°19′36″N 97°32′35″W / 30.32667°N 97.54306°W / 30.32667; -97.54306

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