KOFX (92.3

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"92.3 the Fox") is a

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. It follows a

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that leans toward

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, and plays artists such as

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, and

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, but not Madonna. It is owned by

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, with the license held by Entravision Holdings, LLC. It shares studio facilities with four other Entravision radio stations and two television stations,

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and

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, all of which are on North Mesa Street (

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) in

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. The

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is off Grand Teton Drive, atop the Franklin Mountains in the El Paso city limits. KOFX has an

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(ERP) of 98,000

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s (100,000 with beam tilt). Programming is

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on co-owned

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History

The station was founded by a partnership of businessmen from

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—John A. Parry, Theodore R. Johnson, and Glen L. Houston—called The Media Company. They had operated two radio stations in New Mexico (now KLEA and

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). The original

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(FCC) construction permit called for the transmitter to be co-located with Channel 4

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, though this was never built. On June 6, 1978, the station

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as KFIM. The station's

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was usually shown as "92KF/M", and it featured a

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format. The Media Company changed its corporate name to 92KF/M, Inc., that same year. The transmitter was installed on the Channel 14 KFOX-TV tower, with studios in the Peppertree Square Shopping Center on North Mesa Street in West El Paso Center. KFIM had to compete with 97.5 KINT-FM (now

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), which had already been established as El Paso's big Top 40 station. In 1981, a receiver was appointed for KFIM. ELP Broadcasting Associates bought the station in 1986 and changed the station

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to KOFX the next year. ELP Broadcasting moved the station from Top 40 to a

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sound, and began using "The Fox" as the station's moniker. The studios remained at the Peppertree Square Shopping Center. KOFX was sold in 1994 to Magic Broadcasting for $3 million. It switched to a

format and the studios moved to 4105 Rio Bravo Street, off Executive Center Boulevard. Entravision acquired KOFX in 1999.Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2001 page D-436
/ref> KOFX's studios were moved to the Entravision facilities on North Mesa Street. KOFX and its AM simulcast partner, 1150 KHRO, are Entravision's only English-language stations in El Paso.

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