KBZO (AM)
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KBZO is a radio station
broadcasting a Spanish adult hits music format. Licensed to Lubbock, Texas
, USA, the station serves the Lubbock area. The station is currently owned by Entravision Holdings, LLC.
In 1954 the station was sold to the McAlister and Maples interests (variously KICA CLovis, NM KGMC Englewood COlorado, KPOS Post, KBYG Big SPring at various times). Studios were moved into a pethouse suite of the recently complete "Plains Life Insurance Building" a 20 floor tall building at 12th and Avenue L (then as now the tallest building in Lubbock). Call letters were changed to KLLL for "Lubbock's Liveliest Listening". In short order the new owners raised power to 1,000 watts still as a daytime only station.
KLLL (AM) was sold to the Corbin family in 1958. They purchased local FM station KBFM a decade later, and eventually changed calls from KBFM to changed its name to KLLL-FM. The studio building was damaged in 1970 during the great Lubbock tornado and KLLL spent several days off air. They used the former KSEL studios on east Broadway (vacated in 1968 when KSEL moved to their new KSEL-TV sister station plant in South Lubbock). KLLL-FM returned to the air using the KSEL-TV tower. New KLLL studios were built at 1314 50th street and were placed into use in 1976.
In 1982 KLLL was spun off to local oilman Terry Wynn. KLLL call letters stayed with the FM and the FM company purchased 1590 AM (by them KEND because it was a full time station). 1460 changed its format to Adult Contemporary and its call letters to KWAZ for "Kwazy Way-dio". Studios moved to 3210-B 34th street. 1460 asked the FCC for another fM channel (class A on 106.3 which was granted) and filed for the new channel (along with many others). The grant eventually went to the now KEJS (FM) which went on air in the late 1980s.
The station received a construction permit in 1984 for a new transmitter site and new city of License of Carlisle, Texas. The new site would have required three new towersnorth and east of Lubbock. The site was never built. Some time later the FCC granted day-timers use of night time hours at appropriately reduced night powers.
KWAZ became an early medium market all talk station, using network programs from ABC TalkRadio, and CNN Headline News Audio. One of the engineers in this time frame was Kyle Wesley (now Director of Engineering for Radio Disney and its owned and operated broadcast stations).
The station was assigned the call sign
KTLK on 1983-11-21. On 1993-11-30, the station changed its call sign to KTNP, and on 1994-12-01, to the current KBZO.
Radio station
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broadcasting a Spanish adult hits music format. Licensed to Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...
, USA, the station serves the Lubbock area. The station is currently owned by Entravision Holdings, LLC.
History
1460 was activated by a couple of ex-KSEL sales reps in 1953. Their 500 watt daytimer had studios and tower at 52nd and Magnolia in southeast Lubbock. Call letters were KVSP.In 1954 the station was sold to the McAlister and Maples interests (variously KICA CLovis, NM KGMC Englewood COlorado, KPOS Post, KBYG Big SPring at various times). Studios were moved into a pethouse suite of the recently complete "Plains Life Insurance Building" a 20 floor tall building at 12th and Avenue L (then as now the tallest building in Lubbock). Call letters were changed to KLLL for "Lubbock's Liveliest Listening". In short order the new owners raised power to 1,000 watts still as a daytime only station.
KLLL (AM) was sold to the Corbin family in 1958. They purchased local FM station KBFM a decade later, and eventually changed calls from KBFM to changed its name to KLLL-FM. The studio building was damaged in 1970 during the great Lubbock tornado and KLLL spent several days off air. They used the former KSEL studios on east Broadway (vacated in 1968 when KSEL moved to their new KSEL-TV sister station plant in South Lubbock). KLLL-FM returned to the air using the KSEL-TV tower. New KLLL studios were built at 1314 50th street and were placed into use in 1976.
In 1982 KLLL was spun off to local oilman Terry Wynn. KLLL call letters stayed with the FM and the FM company purchased 1590 AM (by them KEND because it was a full time station). 1460 changed its format to Adult Contemporary and its call letters to KWAZ for "Kwazy Way-dio". Studios moved to 3210-B 34th street. 1460 asked the FCC for another fM channel (class A on 106.3 which was granted) and filed for the new channel (along with many others). The grant eventually went to the now KEJS (FM) which went on air in the late 1980s.
The station received a construction permit in 1984 for a new transmitter site and new city of License of Carlisle, Texas. The new site would have required three new towersnorth and east of Lubbock. The site was never built. Some time later the FCC granted day-timers use of night time hours at appropriately reduced night powers.
KWAZ became an early medium market all talk station, using network programs from ABC TalkRadio, and CNN Headline News Audio. One of the engineers in this time frame was Kyle Wesley (now Director of Engineering for Radio Disney and its owned and operated broadcast stations).
The station was assigned the call sign
Call sign
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KTLK on 1983-11-21. On 1993-11-30, the station changed its call sign to KTNP, and on 1994-12-01, to the current KBZO.