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| Broadcast area | El Paso metropolitan area;Ciudad Juarez |
| Frequency | 93.9MHz |
| Branding | La Suavecita 93.9/1150 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Mexican regionaladult hits |
| Ownership | |
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| KHRO,KOFX,KYSE,KINT-TV,KTFN | |
| History | |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | From the television station:KINT-TV |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 51709 |
| Class | C |
| ERP | 100,000watts |
| HAAT | 433 meters (1,421 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 31°47′46″N106°28′57″W / 31.79611°N 106.48250°W /31.79611; -106.48250 |
| Repeater | 1150KHRO (El Paso) |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KINT-FM (93.9MHz) is aradio station inEl Paso, Texas, also servingLas Cruces, New Mexico, and widely heard over theU.S.-Mexican border inCiudad Juarez and surrounding communities. The station is currently owned byEntravision Communications.[2] The station airs aradio format called "La Suavecita" It featuresRegional Mexicanadult hits.
KINT-FM's studio facilities are located on North Mesa Street (Texas State Highway 20) in northwest El Paso, and itstransmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains in the El Paso city limits.KSVE (1650 AM) has at timessimulcast KINT-FM.
In 1975, a license was given for a new station on 93.9 FM in El Paso, KPAS. "94FM" was El Paso's original rock station but changed away from the format in 1981, chasing listeners towardKLAQ at 95.5. Prior to Spanish-language programing, this station also airedhot AC andCHR formats.
For the first time, in 1992, KPAS became KINT-FM. On March 18, 1994, the station changed its call sign to KSVE, only to revert to KINT-FM on May 20 of that year.[3]
Originally owned by El Paso Broadcasting Corporation, the station sometime in the 1990s was sold to its current owner, Santa Monica-basedEntravision Communications
Spanish-language programming began in 1994 with the original "La Caliente" format (also formerly occupied by an unrelated radio stationXEJUA-AM, which flipped to La Lupe in 2020, leaving the brand completely out of the area) which broadcast Tejano music between 1994 and 1998; by then, the branding flipped to aMexican RegionalTop 40 format. That branding ended in 2007 in favor ofSpanish-language varietyAC "José FM" format, which ended on January 8, 2018, in favor of "La Suavecita" format, returning the Mexican Regional music to this station, this time as a Mexican Regional AC.[4]
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