KRVA (AM)

KRVA

City	Cockrell Hill, Texas
Broadcast area	Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
Branding	Radio Saigon Dallas
Frequency	1600 kHz
First air date	1947 as KMAE
Format	Full Service
Language(s)	Vietnamese
Power	25,000 watts (Daytime) 930 watts (Nighttime)
Class	B
Former callsigns	KMAE (1947-1965) KYAL (1965-1976) KXVI (1976-1985) KTNS (1985-1987) KSSA (1987-1993)
Owner	Lrad Media, LLC
Website

KRVA, branded as "Radio Saigon Dallas 1600", is a Vietnamese language radio station, broadcasting in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. This station is licensed in Cockrell Hill, Texas and is licensed to Lrad Media, LLC.

History

This station started their broadcasting activities in 1947 as KMAE on an Entertainment format operating during the daytime hours only in McKinney, Texas. Then in 1965, the station changed to KYAL (call letters stood for "y'all"), playing Country music. Over a decade later, the station has moved to Plano, Texas, as the branding and formats changed once again to KXVI (callsign stood for "16" in Roman numbers) under various religious formats. Recently, the KXVI calls were re-used at 100.5 FM in Pittsburg (not to be mistaken for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) for "The Bridge Network," a DFW-based religious broadcaster serving East Texas. In 1985, the station changed to an all-news station as KTNS. It went off the air after January 7, 1987.

Previous KRVA ident used until late 2012.

About 7 months later, the station was revived by Spanish Radio Pioneer Marcos Rodriguez, Sr., father of Marcos A. Rodriguez as KSSA (recently resurrected from 1270 AM) on a Spanish format, relocated to Cockrell Hill (which has a high Hispanic population) and a sister station to Kansas City-based KSSA-FM. In 1993, Z-Spanish Media and Entravision bought KSSA and changed the callsign to KRVA while maintaining its Spanish format. In the 1990s, it has simulcasted News 8 at 6:00PM (CT) from WFAA-TV in Spanish.

There was also a period, including summer and autumn of 2005, during which 1600 am broadcast an Asian format (including Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and English languages), with music, talk, games and advertising relating to the Asian community in the D/FW area.

On November 2006, Entravision sold KRVA to Mortenson Broadcasting after selling the other stations to Liberman Broadcasting.

It was announced on October 21, 2011 that Mortenson Broadcasting will be selling three of its sister stations and (2 AM and 1 FM translator) to Salem Communications. Mortenson will also spin off this station to Pacificstar Media II Corporation for $1.4 Million in cash.^[1] Sometime in October 2012, KRVA switched to its current Vietnamese format (previously on KTXV), abandoning the previous Spanish religious programming.

Pacificstar Media sold the station to Lrad Media, LLC for $1.9 million; the transaction was consummated on March 17, 2014.

References

↑ Salem grows in Dallas as Mortenson spins again (released October 21, 2011)

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for KRVA

Radio-Locator Information on KRVA

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KRVA

Radio stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex market

By AM frequency	540 570 620 660 700 730 770 820¹ 850² 870² 890 910 970 990 1040² 1080¹ 1110² 1140 1160 1190 1220 1270 1310 1340 1360 1390 1420 1440 1460 1480 1540 1570 1600 1630 1700

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.5 88.5 88.7 89.1 89.3 89.5 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.1 92.5 93.3 93.7 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.3 95.9 96.3 96.7 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.3 98.7 99.1 99.5 100.3 100.7 101.1 101.7 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.3 103.7 104.5 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.1 106.7 106.9 107.1 107.5 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.4 (Dallas) 162.525 (Corsicana) 162.525 (Mineral Wells) 162.55 (Fort Worth)

Digital radio	570 1080 1270 1700 88.5-1 89.3-1 92.5-1 92.5-2 94.1-1 94.5-1 96.3-1 96.3-2 97.1-1 97.1-2 97.5-1 97.9-1 97.9-2 98.7-1 98.7-2 98.7-3 99.5-1 99.5-2 100.3-1 100.3-2 100.3-3 101.1-1 102.1-1 102.1-2 102.9-1 102.9-2 103.7-1 103.7-2 105.3-1 105.3-2 105.3-3 106.1-1 106.1-2 107.1-1 107.5-1 107.5-2 107.5-3 107.9-1 107.9-2

By callsign	K273BJ KAAM KAND KATH KAWA KBEC KBFB KBOC KBXD KCBI KCLE KDFT KDGE KDKR KDMX KDXX KEC55 KEC56 KEGL KEOM KERA KESN KESS-FM KEXB KFCD KFJZ² KFLC KFWR KFXR KFZO KGGR² KHFX KHKS KHSE KHVN KHYI KJKK KJON² KJRN KKDA KKDA-FM KKGM KKLF KKXT KLAK KLIF KLIF-FM KLNO KLTY KLUV KMNY KMQX KMVK KNON KNOR KNTU KPIR KPLX KPYK KRLD¹ KRLD-FM KRNB KRVA KRVF KSCS KSKY KSOC KSQX KTCK KTCK-FM KTCU-FM KTFW-FM KTNO KTXG KTXV KVCE KVIL KVTT² KWRD-FM KXEZ KXI87 KYDA KYQX KZEE KZMP KZMP-FM KZPS KZZA WBAP¹ WNG651 WRR

Defunct	KTDK-FM 104.1 The Indie-Verse

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 225 Sirius Channel 154 Nearby radio markets Abilene Brownwood Killeen–Temple Lawton Oklahoma City Paris Sherman–Denison Tyler–Longview Waco Wichita Falls See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ² = Daytime-only AM radio station.

Coordinates: 38°36′43″N 121°25′58″W / 38.611817°N 121.432706°W / 38.611817; -121.432706

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