KOKE is an
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, operating at 1600 kHz, licensed to
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, and is owned by Encino Broadcasting LLC. The station currently airs a
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format.
Overview
KOKE was purchased by Encino Broadcasting LLC, along with
KELG and
KTXZ on September 24, 2007.
The station was originally licensed as KVYK until June 16, 1995 when the callsign was changed to
KOKE.
From 2004 to 2007 the station was owned by Border Media Partners and served as a progressive talk radio station and
Air America Radio
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affiliate.
After that it broadcast Regional Mexican for a few years, however by 2019 it had flipped to Tejano music replacing KTXZ 1560 which dropped the format.
Personalities
* "Federico Castro"
* "Primo Pablo"
References
External links
OKE Oke or OKE may refer to:
* Ōke, branches of the Japanese Imperial Family
* Oka (mass), an Ottoman measure of mass
* OKE (mixtape), ''OKE'' (mixtape), a 2013 mixtape by rapper Game
* Oke (name)
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Radio stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Texas
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