KGOW

KGOW (1560 AM), known as "Yahoo! Sports Radio 1560," is an American sports talk format radio station based in Houston, Texas, USA. It is currently owned by GOW Communications. GOW Communications also owns Yahoo! Sports Radio, and the network's operations are based at KGOW. The transmitter site is located between Manvel and Angleton, Texas and studios are located in Uptown Houston one block from The Galleria.

History

1560 first appeared in south Texas as KGUL (AM) in Port Lavaca, Texas. It began on 95.9 FM.

A time brokered station in the Houston area (the now deleted KFCC (AM)) operated in Bay City, Texas and later operated in the Stafford, Texas area. Unfortunately the station moved without proper FCC permission. When it was clear that this facility would be going away, the principals secured a front "real party in interest" to take the KGUL facility to Houston. They operated with 800 watts, later 5,000 watts on a simple directional system.

Prior to September 2007, the station was KILE, with a Multi-Language talk radio format, and was the only one in the Houston area to broadcast in many languages.