KXET (AM)
radio station in Portland, Oregon
KXET (1150 AM) was a radio station licensed to Portland, Oregon, United States. It served the Portland area. The station was last owned by Bustos Media of Oregon License, LLC. The station had a construction permit from the FCC to increase their daytime power to 10,000 watts and nighttime to 63 watts.
History
From July 4, 1954 when the station first signed on with the callsign KHFS until 1956, then KKEY was owned by the Weagant family of Vancouver, Washington. After trying several different formats throughout the 1950s and '60s, in 1971, KKEY went all talk with such hosts as Jack Hurd, Alan Hirsch, Peter Marland Jones, Jerry Dimmitt, and Rick Miller. Originally a daytime only station, KKEY was granted nighttime authorization in 1988 to operate at 47 watts. KKEY remained with primarily a talk format until the station was sold in 1998. It temporarily went off the air before signing back on as KKGT, again an all-talk station.
The station was assigned the call sign KLPM by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on April 14, 2009.
On January 21, 2011, KLPM changed its format to Spanish hits, branded as "Exitos 93.5", which also rebroadcast on FM translator K228EU 93.5 FM. On January 25, 2011, KLPM changed its call letters to KXET to go with the "Exitos 93.5" branding.
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