KTSA (550 AM) is a News-Talk formatted radio station in San Antonio, Texas. The weekday schedule offers 13 hours of syndicated product and 11 hours of local Talk. Dave Ramsey, Clark Howard, Bill O'Reilly, and Jim Bohannon also have programs on the station. KTSA was acquired by BMP Radio in August 2006. On July 27, 2009 Border Media Partners was taken over by its lenders an "amicable manner," according to an FCC filing (radioink.com). Border Media...
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KTSA (550 AM) is a News-Talk formatted radio station in San Antonio, Texas. The weekday schedule offers 13 hours of syndicated product and 11 hours of local Talk. Dave Ramsey, Clark Howard, Bill O'Reilly, and Jim Bohannon also have programs on the station. KTSA was acquired by BMP Radio in August 2006. On July 27, 2009 Border Media Partners was taken over by its lenders an "amicable manner," according to an FCC filing (radioink.com). Border Media had not made a debt payment in two years (San Antonio Express-News).
This radio station began as WCAR, founded by John C. Rodriguez of the Alamo Radio & Electric Company in September 1922. WCAR was the second radio station in San Antonio, taking the airwaves shortly after WJAE which only lasted a few months.
Radio experts believe the call letters KTSA stand for Come to San Antonio. For a time the Express News Corporation owned the station. In the 1950s rock and roll radio Pioneer Gordon McLendon bought KTSA and made it one of the first Top 40...
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