KRVA (AM)

Coordinates: 38°36′43″N 121°25′58″W / 38.611817°N 121.432706°W / 38.611817; -121.432706
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KRVA
Daytime)
930 watts (Nighttime)
Links
Websitewww.saigondallasradio.com

KRVA (1600

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned by Lrad Media, LLC, and broadcasts a full service Vietnamese radio format, featuring pop music and talk

By day it is powered at 25,000 watts. But at night, to avoid interfering with other stations on 1600 AM, it reduces power to 930 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times. The transmitter is on Woodvista Court in the Piedmont neighborhood of Southeast Dallas.[1]

History

This station started their broadcasting activities on

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) for "The Bridge Network," a DFW-based religious broadcaster serving East Texas. In 1985, the station changed to an all-news
station as KTNS. It went off the air after January 7, 1987.

About 7 months later, the station was revived by Spanish Radio Pioneer Marcos Rodriguez Sr., father of

WFAA-TV
in Spanish.

There was also a period, including summer and autumn of 2005, during which 1600 am broadcast an Asian format (including Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and English languages), with music, talk, games and advertising relating to the Asian community in the D/FW area.

In November 2006, Entravision sold KRVA to

Liberman Broadcasting
.

It was announced on October 21, 2011, that Mortenson Broadcasting will be selling three of its sister stations and (2 AM and 1 FM translator) to

Salem Communications. Mortenson will also spin off this station to Pacificstar Media II Corporation for $1.4 Million in cash.[2] Sometime in October 2012, KRVA switched to its current Vietnamese format (previously on KTXV
), abandoning the previous Spanish religious programming.

Pacificstar Media sold the station to Lrad Media, LLC for $1.9 million; the transaction was consummated on March 17, 2014.

1981 possession incident

During the morning hours on October 29, 1981, KXVI went off the air for 45 minutes after a paddle-welding man from Dallas began commandeering the building and said that he was taken possession for Satan. After replying to the man that this is a gospel station, the man told the manager to "get out of here because this is Satan's station." He started to beat up the manager, was later caught by Plano Police, and was taken to Collin County's Memorial Hospital after being beaten up by the manager.

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38°36′43″N 121°25′58″W / 38.611817°N 121.432706°W / 38.611817; -121.432706