KSMY (106.7
FM, "La Mejor 106.7") is a
commercial radio station that is
licensed to
Lompoc, California, United States and serves the
Santa Maria—Lompoc area. The station is owned by Alfredo Plascencia's
Lazer Broadcasting, through licensee Lazer Licenses, LLC, and broadcasts a
Spanish oldies format.
History
The station first signed on in 1997 as KAKV and originally was owned by Stuart McRae. The station aired an
adult standards format. On January 21, 2000, KAKV changed its
call letters to KSMY.
In February 2000, McRae Media Group sold KSMY, then broadcasting a
contemporary hit radio
Contemporary hit radio (also known as CHR, contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format that is common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by ...
format, to
Fresno, California-based Bathysphere Broadcasting Corporation for $525,000. The station changed hands once more in September when Bathysphere sold 11 stations throughout Central California, plus a
construction permit
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for KSMY, to
Clear Channel Communications
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for $45 million. The permit authorized KSMY to operate with an
effective radiated power of 1,650
watts at
height above average terrain.
On July 15, 2002, KSMY switched formats from
oldies to
hot adult contemporary, identifying as "My 106.7".
On June 29, 2007, Clear Channel divested 16 stations in California and Arizona, including KSMY, to
private equity firm Frontier Capital Partners for $40 million. At the time of the sale, the station aired a
Spanish adult hits format known as "La Preciosa".
In May 2009, El Dorado Broadcasters dropped La Preciosa from KSMY in favor of
Spanish adult contemporary
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with the branding "El Compa". The new format emphasized hit songs from the 1980s to the present.
In 2016, El Dorado sold all of its stations in the Santa Maria radio market. KSMY was sold to
Lazer Broadcasting for $400,000.
Lazer flipped the station to Spanish
oldies and rebranded it as "La Mejor".
References
External links
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{{Lazer Broadcasting
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Santa Barbara County, California
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