KOXR

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KOXR
KOXR.png
Broadcast area Ventura County
Frequency 910 kHz
BrandingLa Mexicana 102.1 y 910 AM
Programming
Format Ranchera/mariachi
Ownership
OwnerRadio Lazer
History
First air date
June 11, 1955
Call sign meaning
K OXnaRd
Technical information
Facility ID 866
Class B
Power 5,000 watts day
1,000 watts night
Translator(s) 102.1 K271CY (Oxnard)
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website KOXR Online

KOXR (910 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Oxnard, California. It broadcasts a traditional ranchera music format featuring mariachi groups from Mexico. It is owned by Radio Lazer and calls itself "La Mexicana 102.1 y 910 AM."

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By day, KOXR broadcasts at 5,000 watts. But to avoid interference to other stations on 910 AM, it reduces power at night to 1,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times. The transmitter is off Southern Pacific Milling Road in Santa Paula, near the Santa Clara River. [1] KOXR is also heard on 250 watt FM translator K271CY at 102.1 MHz in Oxnard. [2]

History

On June 11, 1955, the station first signed on. It was owned by the Oxnard Broadcasting Corporation. [3] For several decades the station aired a variety format, which always included at least a few hours of Spanish-language programming each week. By 1964, 90 hours of the weekly schedule was in Spanish (approximately 70% of the then-standard 18-hour broadcast day). [4]

Logo for KOXR prior to the sign-on of the 102.1 FM simulcast. LaMexicanaKOXR s.png
Logo for KOXR prior to the sign-on of the 102.1 FM simulcast.

By the fall of 1966, KOXR's entire 18-hour broadcast day was in Spanish. [5]

In 1970, Oxnard Broadcasting sold KOXR to Howard A. Kalmenson for $598,000. [6] Kalmenson subsequently formed Lotus Communications with KOXR and co-owned KWKW in Pasadena, CA and KENO in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lotus kept the station until 1994, when they sold it to Albert and Jacquelyn Vera for $350,000. [7] Albert Vera had been a deejay at KSPA (now KUNX) in Santa Paula, California when it was a Spanish-language station in the 1960s. [8] He sold the station to Radio Lazer three years later.

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References

  1. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KOXR
  2. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/K271CY
  3. ↑ "Directory of AM and FM Radio Stations in the U.S." (PDF). Broadcasting Yearbook 1959. Retrieved April 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Radio and television stations with major Spanish programing" (PDF). Broadcasting, May 25, 1964. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  5. ↑ "KOXR trade ad" (PDF). Broadcasting, September 19, 1966. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Approved" (PDF). Broadcasting, November 9, 1970. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Business" (PDF). Broadcasting, August 8, 1994. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Howling Success: Oxnard's Spanish-Language Radio Lobo Gains Popularity With Outlandish Antics". Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1995. Retrieved August 5, 2021.

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