Broadcast area Greater Houston Language(s) Spanish Facility ID 27298 City of license Texas City Branding La Nueve Veinte | First air date November 1, 1948 Class B Frequency 920 kHz Area Greater Houston Slogan Simplemente Tu Estacion | |
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Format Sports radio, All-news radio Owner Hispanic Broadcasting, Inc. |
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KYST, branded as "La Nueve Veinte", is a Houston, Texas, area AM radio station that broadcasts news, information, and sports in Spanish. The station broadcasts on AM frequency 920 kHz and is under ownership of Hispanic Broadcasting, Inc..
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History
The station went on the air in November 1948 as 92 KTLW. In the 1960s and 1970s, it aired a Top 40 format. In 1980, the call letters were changed to KYST. In 1982, while officially known as KYST, it billed itself as "Beatle Radio Number 9 KBTL" and had a format of all Beatles music. From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s it ran a Tejano format, as AM 920 KYST. It currently airs a Spanish Full Service format and is the longest continuously owned and operated radio station in the market.
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