KCOH

For the Houston, Texas radio station that held the call sign KCOH at 1430 AM until 2013, see KSHJ.

KCOH

Broadcast area	Houston, Texas
Branding	"La Ranchera" (KEYH simulcast)
Frequency	1230 kHz
First air date	February 18, 1948
Power	1,000 watts 410 watts (experimental synchronous operation)
Class	C
Transmitter coordinates	29°45′26″N 95°20′18″W / 29.75722°N 95.33833°W / 29.75722; -95.33833 29°51′34″N 95°33′32″W / 29.85944°N 95.55889°W / 29.85944; -95.55889 (experimental synchronous operation)
Callsign meaning	K-Call Of Houston or Kilo Cycles Over Houston
Former callsigns	KNUZ (1948-1997) KQUE (1997-2013)
Owner	Liberman Broadcasting (Liberman Broadcasting of Houston License LLC)
Webcast	broadcast Listen Live WMP broadcast Listen Live Link

KCOH (1230 AM) is a radio station in Houston, Texas. The station's branding is "La Ranchera" and broadcasts a Regional Mexican format. The station formerly aired an Urban Oldies format, continued from its long history at 1430kHz under a LMA to the Dunn organization that provided the programming for 1230. Under Liberman's programming control, it has been "Radio Ranchito" and "La Ranchera", both ultilizing a Regional Mexican music format.

History

The radio station began in 1948 when KTHT (now KBME) vacated this frequency for a stronger signal at 790 kHz. Under the KNUZ callsign, it was a Top40 formatted station through the 1960s, competing with KILT (AM) but eventually Houston outgrew 1230's signal coverage and KILT won the battle in the early 70s. KNUZ then switched to a country format until owner Dave Morris sold the station along with its sister FM, KQUE on 102.9.

In 1998, the callsign KQUE was moved to 1230 and the KNUZ callsign was assigned to AM 1090 in Bellville, Texas.

After the longtime Standards and Big Band format was folded, KQUE became part of a quadcast with KTJM 98.5 "Houston's Jammin Hits" from May 2001 to July 2001 along with 880 AM, and 103.3 FM. "Jammin Hit's up and down the dial" was its moniker. 1230 KQUE then dropped from the quadcast and began 1230 a simulcast of classic rock KKRW 93.7 "The Arrow". During a short period, after the FM/AM pair were sold by original owner Dave Morris to Clear Channel, 1230 was used to continue the MOR standards format previously on their 102.9 counterpart during the ownership days of SFX Broadcasting Corporation which took over ABC radio affiliate KNUZ "K-News" News/Opinion. This resulted in 1230 abandoning the KNUZ calls it had used since its inception, and took the calls out of the City that had long been associated with them. The KNUZ callsign had also been used on Channel 39 (Channel 39 frequency now occupied by KIAH).

External links

FCC History Cards for KCOH

Radio stations in Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown

by FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.7 89.3 89.7 90.1 90.5 90.9 91.3 91.7 92.1 92.9 93.3 93.7 94.5 95.7 96.5 96.9 97.1 97.5 97.9 98.5 99.1 99.7 99.9 100.3 100.7 101.1 102.1 102.9 103.7 104.1 104.9 105.3 105.7 106.5 106.9 107.5 107.9

by AM frequency	560 610 650¹ 700 740 790 850 880 900¹ 920 950 980 1010 1050¹ 1070 1090¹ 1110¹ 1140¹ 1180 1230 1320 1360 1380 1400 1430 1460 1480 1500 1520¹ 1540 1560 1590 1610 1670 1680

Digital radio	790 950

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.400 (Houston) 162.550 (Galveston)

by callsign	KACC KAFR KAMA-FM KANI KBME KBRZ KBXX KCHN¹ KCOH KEYH KFNC KFTG KGBC KGG68 KGLK KGOL KGOW KHB40 KHCB KHCB-FM KHJK KHMX KHPT KIKK¹ KILT KILT-FM KJIC KJOZ KKBQ-FM KKHH KKHT-FM KLAT KLOL KLTN KLVI KLVL KMIC KMJQ KNTH KODA KOVE-FM KPFT KPRC KPVU KQBT KQBU-FM KQQK KQUE KRBE KRCM KREH¹ KROI KSBJ KSEV KSHJ KSHN KTBZ-FM KTEK¹ KTHT KTJM KTRH KTSU KTWL KUHA KUHF KULF¹ KVST KWWJ KXBJ KXYZ KYND¹ KYOK¹ KYST

Defunct	KSTB 101.5 FM

Satellite radio local traffic/weather XM Channel 226 Sirius Channel 154 Nearby radio markets Austin Bay City–Freeport Beaumont–Port Arthur Bryan–College Station Corpus Christi Huntsville San Antonio Victoria See also List of radio stations in Texas ¹ = Daytime-only AM radio station.

Liberman Broadcasting

Radio stations	KBOC KBUA KBUE KCOH KEBN KEYH KJOJ-FM KNOR KNTE KQQK KRQB KTJM KVNR KWIZ KZMP* KZMP-FM KZZA

Television stations	KETD KMPX KPNZ KRCA KSDX-LD KVPA-LD KZJL WASA-LD WESV-LD

Television networks	Estrella TV

Other assets	Liberman Broadcasting tower (Era, Texas)

* = Operated by Deportes Media under a LMA.

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