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Radio station in Laredo, Texas
KLAR
(1300
AM
, "Radio Poder") is a
radio station
that serves the
Laredo, Texas
,
United States
and
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
,
Mexico
border area. It broadcasts a Spanish-language religious format.
History
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1300 AM received its FCC license on September 7, 1961 as KGNS. KGNS was owned by the Southwestern Operating Company and broadcast during the day only with 500 watts; it took its call sign from
KGNS-TV
channel 8, which had adopted it several years earlier. In 1964, KGNS powered up to 1,000 watts, and in 1967, it began nighttime broadcasts. The station was sold twice in the early 1970s, not long after changing its call letters to KLAR. For most of the 1970s, KLAR was an English language
Top 40
station.
In June 1995, Crystal Media Inc. sold KLAR to Faith and Power Communications Inc., a Laredo-based non-profit organization headed by pastor Hector Manuel Patino.
External links
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27°31′46″N
99°31′16″W
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27.52944°N 99.52111°W
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27.52944; -99.52111
