KTEK

KTEK

City of license	Alvin, Texas
Broadcast area	Greater Houston
Branding	"Business 1110 KTEK"
Slogan	"The Sound Of Your Money Growing"
Frequency	1110 kHz
First air date	March 18, 1980
Format	Business News/Talk
Power	2,500 Watts (Daytime) 2,500 watts (critical hours)
Class	D
Facility ID	10827
Transmitter coordinates
Callsign meaning	Tekxas (Texas)
Affiliations	Biz Radio Network
Owner	Salem Media Group (South Texas Broadcasting, Inc.)
Sister stations	KNTH KKHT
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	Business1110KTEK.com

KTEK is a radio station serving the Houston, Texas market. Broadcasts on 1110 kHz, this station is under ownership of Salem Communications. KTEK broadcasts during the daytime only as a Class D facility, licensed to Alvin, Texas, providing business related news, and daily market reports during the week, and South Asian brokered programming on weekends.

KTEK cannot broadcast at night due to its sharing the same frequency as clear channel KFAB in Omaha, Nebraska.

History

KTEK in the 1990s once featured Vietnamese language programming and was declared the Voice of Vietnam in Houston. Salem Communications then acquired the station for its Christian-related programming. Then on December 11, 2007, Biz Radio bought the station as part of breaking away from a lease agreement with Multicultural Broadcasting's KXYZ, making KTEK the first Biz Radio O&O station; however, the signal is much weaker than its previous affiliate KXYZ. On March 16, 2010, KTEK was sold back to Salem. The deal included the cancellation of BizRadio’s 2008 loan from Salem, estimated to be worth $1.26 million USD. Salem also received $800,000 in cash, but BizRadio will be allowed "purchase airtime for programming on certain stations" owned by Salem, according to the agreement.

External links

• Biz Radio Official Site
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KTEK
• Radio-Locator Information on KTEK
• Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KTEK