KNCN


KNCN is an FM station licensed to Sinton, Texas playing to the Corpus Christi metro area. It is under ownership of iHeartMedia, Inc. The station's studios and offices are located on Old Brownsville Road in Corpus Christi, and its transmitter tower is located west of Portland, Texas and north of Nueces Bay in San Patricio County.

History

It signed on in 1976 from a combined studio and tower site north of the bay north of Corpus Christi and east of Sinton, Texas. Facilities were the same as now, which is a 100,000-watt signal from a 410-foot antenna. The studio site had on air studios, a bathroom, and the transmitter room. The first main transmitter was a Collins 831-G1. Most recently, the station switched to the active rock panel per Mediabase.
The 101.3 frequency had been used previously by KTOD-FM and by KMIO.
KNCN was known as C-101 and went on the air with a rock format. In later years, sales offices were established in the business center of CCT. They were once in the "600 Building" downtown, and later had their own building on Leopard street. Early on the station received permission from the FCC to identify as a Sinton-Taft station. A bit later they changed that to a Sinton-Corpus Christi identifier.
The station was founded by local owners. It was sold to Tippie Communications.