AM Technical Profile: KGLA
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- Frequency:
- 830
- Format:
- Spanish
- Transmitter
Location:
- [map]
On Lower Guide Levee Road, just southwest of I-10, between I-55 and
I-310.
- Power (ERP):
- Day: 5 kW
- Night: 750 watts
- Antenna:
- Day: 2 towers,
light nulls to the southeast and southwest [pattern
- PDF]
- Night: 3 towers,
irectional to the southeast, towards New Orleans. [pattern
- PDF]
- Other
Information:
- 0.5
mV/m Daytime
Groundwave Service Contour from the
FCC's Public Files
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Owned by Crocodile Broadcasting Corporation
- History:
- 830 came on the
air in the mid 80's as WADU, a nondescript Adult Contemporary/Oldies
station for the western suburbs of Norco, Reserve, Garyville, etc.
Started WADU FM which still operates today. The station engineering
was known to be excellent -- it was owned by an AM consulting
engineer (DuTreil). The transmitter is in a good conductive site and
coverage is great.
AM Adult Contemporary became a dinosaur soon after the station
began, so Spanish seemed to be a good alternative. The calls have
changed to WFNO (radio Fabulosa New Orleans) in 1996. Later
the station slogan became "La Raza". Under the ownership of
Sunburst Media of Louisiana, the station was known as "La Caliente
830".
In May 2015 the station was sold by Sunburst to Ernesto Schweikert
III of Crocodile Broadcasting. Crocodile has another
Spanish-language AM and also runs the New Orleans Telemundo
affiliate.
The call letters were swapped between this station and Crocodile's
other area property in August 2019, with this station becoming KGLA.