KZNX (1530AM) is aradio stationlicensed toCreedmoor, Texas. It airs aSpanishregional Mexicanradio format,simulcast on twoFM frequencies. The station'stransmitter is off Dale Overton Road in the Thoroughbred Estates neighborhood ofDel Valle, Texas.^[2]

KZNX is also heard onFM translator K236AY at 95.1 MHz inWest Lake Hills, Texas, and onKTXX-FM at 104.9 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 10,000watts by day. But becauseAM 1530 is aclear channel frequency reserved forClass AWCKY inCincinnati andKFBK inSacramento, KZNX must significantly reduce power duringcritical hours and at night.

The station firstsigned on the air on December 8, 1962, with thecall sign KGTN.^[3] Its originalcity of license wasGeorgetown, Texas, and it was owned by the Georgetown Broadcasting Company. It began as a 1,000 wattdaytimer, required to go off the air at night.

In 1991, KGTN became KOPY with a Christian format, owned by state representativeDan Kubiak.^[4] Two years later, theLower Colorado River Authority acquired KOPY; the public utility's acquisition of the radio station, which had previously gone silent,^[5] 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.^[6] Under LCRA's ownership, 1530 returned to the air in March 1995 as KWTR, running automated weather and river information^[7] and later including additional community information.

Public response to KWTR was "fairly good", but the river authority ultimately decided that working with theNational 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 (nowKYLR)^[8] 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.^[9] Yellow Rose sold KQQA in 2004 toSimmons 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.^[10]

Norsan Media began operatingKTXX-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.^[11]

• La Palabra Radio Facebook
• FCC History Cards for KZNX
• Facility details for Facility ID 38906 (KZNX) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• KZNX inNielsen Audio's AM station database
• Facility details for Facility ID 139268 (K236AY) in theFCC Licensing and Management System
• K236AY at FCCdata.org

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