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{{short description|Radio station in Creedmoor, Texas}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Infobox radio station
| name                = KZNX
| logo                =
| city                = [[Creedmoor, Texas]]
| area                = [[Austin-Round Rock metropolitan area]]
| branding            = ''La Raza 95.1 y 104.9''
| frequency           = {{frequency|1530|[[Hertz#SI multiples|kHz]]}}
| translator          = {{Radio Relay|95.1|K236AY|[[West Lake Hills, Texas|West Lake Hills]]}}
| repeater            = 104.9 [[KTXX-FM]] ([[Bee Cave, Texas|Bee Cave]])
| format              = [[Regional Mexican]]
| airdate             = {{start date and age|1962|12|8}}
| language            = [[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish]]
| power               = {{ubl|{{val|10000|u=[[watt]]s|fmt=commas}} (day)|{{val|1000|u=watts|fmt=commas}} ([[critical hours]])|{{val|220|u=watts|fmt=commas}} (night)}}
| coordinates         = {{ubl|{{coord|30|4|39|N|97|38|9|W}}|(day and critical hours)|{{coord|30|20|45|N|97|38|5|W}} (night)}}
| class               = D
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| facility_id         = 38906
| former_callsigns    = {{ubl|KGTN (1962–1991)|KOPY (1991–1994)|KWTR (1994–1997)|KNEZ (1997–1998)|KQQA (1998–2004)}}
| owner               = America Telecommunications Group, Inc.
| webcast             = {{listenlive|https://sonos.norsanmedia.com/razaaustin}}
| website             = {{URL|https://larazalaraza.com/austin/}}
}}
'''KZNX''' (1530 [[AM broadcasting|AM]]) is a [[radio station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Creedmoor, Texas]]. It airs a [[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish]] [[regional Mexican]] [[radio format]], [[simulcast]] on two [[FM radio|FM frequencies]]. The station's [[transmitter]] is off Dale Overton Road in the Thoroughbred Estates neighborhood of [[Del Valle, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://radio-locator.com/info/KZNX-AM?loc=30.09209,-97.74195&locn=Creedmoor,+Texas|title=KZNX-AM 1530 kHz - Creedmoor, TX|website=radio-locator.com}}</ref>
KZNX is also heard on [[FM translator]] K236AY at 95.1&nbsp;MHz in [[West Lake Hills, Texas]], and on [[KTXX-FM]] at 104.9&nbsp;MHz. KZNX 1530 AM and translator station K236AY 95.1 FM are currently being operated and managed by La Palabra Radio. KZNX is powered at 10,000 [[watt]]s by day. But because [[AM 1530]] is a [[clear-channel station|clear channel frequency]] reserved for [[List of North American broadcast station classes|Class A]] [[WCKY (AM)|WCKY]] in [[Cincinnati]] and [[KFBK (AM)|KFBK]] in [[Sacramento]], KZNX must significantly reduce power during [[critical hours]] and at night.
==History==
The station first [[sign-on|signed on]] the air on December 8, 1962, with the [[call sign]] KGTN.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB/1965/B2-1965-YB-All.pdf|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1965 page B-150}}</ref> Its original [[city of license]] was [[Georgetown, Texas]], and it was owned by the Georgetown Broadcasting Company. It began as a 1,000 watt [[daytimer]], required to go off the air at night.
In 1991, KGTN became KOPY with a Christian format, owned by state representative [[Dan Kubiak]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32997032/|work=Austin American-Statesman|first=John|last=Herndon|date=November 28, 1991|title=Native Americans add perspective on KUT|access-date=June 18, 2019}}</ref> Two years later, the [[Lower Colorado River Authority]] acquired KOPY; the public utility's acquisition of the radio station, which had previously gone silent,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32997284/|first=David|last=Matustik|work=Austin American-Statesman|title=KCRA awaiting FCC approval on broadcast license purchase|date=July 10, 1993|access-date=June 18, 2019}}</ref> came in the wake of 1991 floods in the region that required more timely dissemination of information than the region's weekly newspapers and coverage-limited radio stations could provide.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32997168/|work=Austin American-Statesman|first=John|last=Herndon|date=November 3, 1994|title=River Authority makes (air)waves|access-date=June 18, 2019}}</ref> Under LCRA's ownership, 1530 returned to the air in March 1995 as KWTR, running automated weather and river information<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32997395/|date=March 30, 1995|work=Austin American-Statesman|first=John|last=Herndon|access-date=June 18, 2019|title=KUT asks donors to counter cuts}}</ref> and later including additional community information.
Public response to KWTR was "fairly good", but the river authority ultimately decided that working with the [[National Weather Service]] was more cost-effective, and in April 1997, KWTR gave way to "K-News", an all-news radio station owned by Yellow Rose Communications alongside 92.1 KIKY (now [[KYLR]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.newspapers.com/clip/32997704/allnews_radio_station_to_debut/ |title=All-news radio station to debut |last=Golz |first=Earl |date=October 23, 1996 |work=Austin American-Statesman |access-date=June 18, 2019 |language=en}} ([https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32997525/kickfm_owners_to_start_1st_allnews/ Continued])</ref> LCRA sold the station for $632,000; a new KNEZ call sign was instituted in April 1997.
KNEZ did not last long; in 1998, the station became KQQA, a simulcast of KQQQ (the former KIKY). The two stations aired a Regional Mexican format known as La Nueva.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.newspapers.com/clip/32997857/arbitron_ups_and_downs/ |title=Arbitron ups and downs |last=Patterson |first=Rob |date=October 17, 1998 |work=Austin American-Statesman |access-date=June 18, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Yellow Rose sold KQQA in 2004 to [[Redrock Broadcasting|Simmons Media Group]], which flipped the frequency to sports as KZNX. [[Border Media Partners]] bought the station in 2010 and sold it two years later to America Telecommunications Group, a company 25 percent owned by José Pérez Ramírez of Mexican station group Promomedios.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rbr.com/austin-fms-spin-out-of-old-border-porfolio/|work=RBR|title=Austin FMs spin out of old Border porfolio|date=August 2, 2012|access-date=June 18, 2019}}</ref>
Norsan Media began operating [[KTXX-FM]] as a simulcast of KZNX on August 2, 2023, when the company announced that it was purchasing the station from Genuine Austin Radio. The simulcast gives KZNX a full-powered FM signal within the Austin market.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2023 |title=Norsan Media Expands In Austin - RadioInsight |url=https://radioinsight.com/headlines/256593/norsan-media-expands-in-austin/ |access-date=August 2, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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[[File:KZNX logo.png|thumb|right|Logo before simulcasting with 104.9]]
==Translators==
{{RadioTranslators
| call1 = K236AY
| freq1 = 95.1
| fid1 = 139268
| watts1 = 99
| haat1 = 333.7
| class1 = D
| city1 = West Lake Hills, Texas
| callsign = KZNX
| coord1 = {{coord|30|19|24|N|97|47|59|W}}
}}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* [https://www.facebook.com/lapalabraradio La Palabra Radio Facebook]
* [https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=38526 FCC History Cards for KZNX]
{{AM station data|38906|KZNX}}
* {{FCC-LMS-Facility|139268|K236AY}}
* {{FMXL|K236AY}}
{{Austin Radio}}
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