KXYZ

KXYZ is an AM radio station in Greater Houston, which broadcasts on 1320 kHz under ownership of Multicultural Broadcasting. KXYZ features brokered programming, in which station management sells airtime by the hour to interested third parties wishing to broadcast over the air. The transmitter is in Pasadena, Texas.

History

On June 17, 1948, the Federal Communications Commission approved purchase of Harris County Broadcasting Company, owners of KXYZ, by Shamrock Broadcasting Company, owned by Glenn H. McCarthy.

During the 1960s, KXYZ was owned by ABC and played beautiful music. The station was well known in the 1960s for its vividly descriptive station identification promos, such as:

In the mid 70's, the format changed to pop music & around 1980, it changed over to a Christian station.

In 1983, Infinity absorbed KXYZ. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, it was a Spanish language contemporary music station known as "Radio 13" that was owned by Infinity Broadcasting (now CBS Radio). During this period, KXYZ carried Houston Astros games in Spanish. KXYZ then carried the Spanish Talk format of satellite network Radio Unica. Multicultural Broadcasting bought KXYZ from Infinity/CBS and Biz Radio made its debut in the early years of the 2000s (decade).