KXYZ
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Broadcast area | Greater Houston |
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| Frequency | 1320 kHz |
| Branding | Houston's BIN 1320 |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Format | All-news radio |
| Network | Black Information Network |
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| KBME, KODA, KPRC, KQBT, KTBZ-FM, KTRH | |
| History | |
First air date | August 24, 1926 |
Former call signs | KTUE (1926–1930) |
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| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Class | B |
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Transmitter coordinates | 29°54′56.8″N 95°27′42.8″W / 29.915778°N 95.461889°W |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | houston |
KXYZ (1320 AM) is a radio station in the United States. Licensed to Houston, Texas, United States and serving Greater Houston, it is owned by iHeartMedia and broadcasts an all-news radio format as an affiliate of iHeartMedia's Black Information Network.
The station first signed on in 1926 as KTUE before taking on its current call sign KXYZ in 1930. In 1938, KXYZ became the first radio station in the Southern U.S. with a 24-hour broadcast schedule. KXYZ had been an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network and its successor ABC Radio from 1937 to 1979. Throughout its history, KXYZ has been locally owned at times, with some national owners such as ABC from 1968 to 1979 and Infinity Broadcasting from 1983 to 1998. Under ABC ownership, KXYZ was usually an MOR station and enjoyed significant success. Its news department won recognition from the American Bar Association and Associated Press in 1971. In spring 1976, the station had a top-ten Arbitron ranking in Houston. From 1976 to 1978, KXYZ was the radio home of Houston Rockets basketball.
After some short-lived disco and Christian formats, KXYZ had a Spanish news, talk, and music format from 1981 to 2005. As a Spanish station, KXYZ had a small but devoted listener following and attraacted local news coverage for benefit concerts relating to the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and 1986 San Salvador earthquake. KXYZ also resumed carrying Houston Rockets games, this time in Spanish, from 1989 to 1995. Multicultural Broadcasting purchased KXYZ in 2003, leading to two format changes, first to business and finance in 2005, then a multilingual Chinese, Hindi, and Vietnamese format in 2008. iHeartMedia then purchased KXYZ in 2021 and, with the iHeartMedia purchase, the station changed its programming to the Black Information Network format of all-news radio.