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| Broadcast area | El Paso metropolitan area |
| Frequency | 690kHz |
| Branding | News Radio 690 KTSM |
| Programming | |
| Format | News/talk |
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| Ownership | |
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| KHEY,KHEY-FM,KPRR,KTSM-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | April 22, 1929 (96 years ago) (1929-04-22) |
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Call sign meaning | Tri-State Music Company (original owner) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 69561 |
| Class | B |
| Power | 10,000watts |
Transmitter coordinates | 31°58′11″N106°21′15″W / 31.96972°N 106.35417°W /31.96972; -106.35417 |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | ktsmradio |
KTSM (690kHz) is acommercialAMradio stationlicensed toEl Paso,Texas. It is owned byiHeartMedia, Inc. and airs anews/talkformat. The studios are on North Mesa Drive in west central El Paso.
KTSM broadcasts with 10,000watts around the clock. Because the station operates on690 AM, aMexican andCanadianclear-channel frequency, KTSM uses adirectional antenna with a four-tower array to avoid interfering with other stations operating on the same frequency. Itstransmitter site is located off O'Brian Street nearU.S. Route 54 in north east El Paso.[2]
KTSM has one local show on weekdays,Talk El Paso with Andrew Polk, heard in afternoondrive time. The rest of the schedule is made up ofnationally syndicated talk shows, mostly supplied byPremiere Networks, asubsidiary of iHeartMedia:The Glenn Beck Program,The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show,The Sean Hannity Show,The Jesse Kelly Show,The Mark Levin Show,Coast to Coast AM withGeorge Noory andThis Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.
Weekends feature a mix of local and syndicated shows on money, health, technology, travel, home repair and the law. Weekend programs includeThe Kim Komando Show,Bill Handel on The Law,At Home with Gary Sullivan,Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont,Sunday Nights with Bill Cunningham,The Travel Show with Larry Gelwix andSomewhere in Time with Art Bell. Some weekend hours are paidbrokered programming. Most hours begin with an update fromFox News Radio.
In 1947, the station signed on the air in El Paso at 690 kHz as KEPO.[3] It was powered at 5,000 watts and owned by H.J. Griffith, who served as station president.
In 1957 its call letters were changed to KHEY, airing acountry music format for many years. Historically, KHEY was one of several country music stations in the El Paso, Texas market, and was the last AM station in the market to keep its country format.
In 1998,San Antonio-basedClear Channel Communications (renamediHeartMedia in 2014), acquired both KHEY-AM-FM and KTSM-AM-FM. Under Clear Channel management, the two AM stations' call signs and formats were swapped in 2000, with KHEY on AM 690 becoming KTSM and inheriting its talk format, while KTSM on AM 1380 becameKHEY and inherited its country music format.
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