KELP (AM)
Radio station in El Paso, Texas
KELP (1590 kHz) is a commercial radio station in El Paso, Texas, broadcasting a Christian radio format. It is owned by Cornerstone Broadcasting with the license held by On Earth Media, LLC. The studios and offices are on Commerce Avenue near Interstate 10 in El Paso.
The transmitter is on Springfield Drive in El Paso, near the United States-Mexico border. Programming is also heard on a 10-watt FM translator K240ER at 95.9 MHz.
History
The station signed on the air on April 10, 1959. It was a daytimer, required to go off the air at night. The original call sign was KINT, powered at 1,000 watts. In 1969, it added a sister station, 97.5 KINT-FM (now KBNA-FM). The two stations simulcast a Top 40 format, playing popular hits for young listeners in El Paso. KINT-AM-FM were affiliates of the ABC Contemporary Network.
“KELP (AM)” enters the record as radio station in El Paso, Texas. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KELP, Radio and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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This entry incorporates text from “KELP (AM)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.