KOXR (910 kHz) is a

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licensed to

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. It broadcasts a traditional

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music format featuring

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groups from

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. It is owned by Radio Lazer and calls itself "La Mexicana 102.1 y 910 AM." By day, KOXR broadcasts at 5,000

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s. But to avoid interference to other stations on

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, it reduces power at night to 1,000 watts. It uses a

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at all times. The

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is off Southern Pacific Milling Road in

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, near the Santa Clara River. KOXR is also heard on 250 watt FM

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K271CY at 102.1 MHz in Oxnard.

History

On June 11, 1955, the station first

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. It was owned by the Oxnard Broadcasting Corporation. For several decades the station aired a

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format, which always included at least a few hours of Spanish-language programming each week. By 1964, 90 hours of the weekly schedule was in Spanish (approximately 70% of the then-standard 18-hour broadcast day). 150px, Logo for KOXR prior to the sign-on of the 102.1 FM simulcast. By the fall of 1966, KOXR's entire 18-hour broadcast day was in Spanish. In 1970, Oxnard Broadcasting sold KOXR to Howard A. Kalmenson for $598,000. Kalmenson subsequently formed

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with KOXR and co-owned KWKW in Pasadena, CA and KENO in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lotus kept the station until 1994, when they sold it to Albert and Jacquelyn Vera for $350,000. Albert Vera had been a deejay at

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(now KUNX) in Santa Paula, California when it was a Spanish-language station in the 1960s. He sold the station to Radio Lazer three years later.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for KOXRKOXR website
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