KASA (1540 AM and K294CW 106.7 FM) is a

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, United States, the station serves the Phoenix area. The station is currently owned by Kasa Radio Hogar, Inc.

History

KASA signed on in 1966, reviving a callsign that had once been assigned to a radio station in Elk City, Oklahoma. It was a religious station, the second in Phoenix behind KHEP at 1280, and was built by Seattle-based Eastside Broadcasting, which also owned four religious radio stations in Washington state. In April 1980, it built and signed on an FM sister station,

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, which broadcast a mix of religious programs and easy-listening music. The station switched from English to Spanish, retaining its religious format, in the mid-1990s. In 2018, this station relaunched as "La Indiscreta FM" with a Regional Mexican format.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for KASA
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