KHSE (700 AM) is a commercial

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. Both facilities are under ownership of Texas FM Radio, LLC. and broadcast a full simulcast

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History

This station began as KXXT under an unknown format in 2003, then a year later it was changed to KCAF when a sister station on 990 AM became

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(now KFCD). On July 22, 2004, the call sign changed to KHSE and was to become a full-time business talk and sports format, but KHSE was long rumored to be in a "testing" phase to align the signal on their new tower. However, a new tower had never been constructed. KHSE went bankrupt in August 2005 and was auctioned off two months later (along with sister station KFCD) to a "

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". After two years of signal testing, KHSE has resumed its broadcasting activities as "Radio Caravan". On February 27, 2007, an application was filed with the

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to transfer the license from Bernard Dallas LLC to Principle Broadcasting Network - Dallas, LL

which had entered into a transaction to acquire the two stations from the bankruptcy cour

This transaction was never consummated. Effective October 30, 2015, Bernard Dallas LLC sold KHSE and sister station

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to Mark Jorgenson's ACM Dallas V LLC for $475,000. Jorgenson then sold KHSE to John Hammond's Hammond Broadcasting, LLC effective November 20, 2015 for $1.5 million. Hammond Broadcasting in turn sold KHSE and translator K281CS to Texas FM Radio, LLC for $2 million effective October 22, 2018.

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External links

* http://www.radiocaravan.com
DFW Radio/TV History
* * Radio stations established in 2006 HSE 2006 establishments in Texas {{Texas-radio-station-stub