KVCE

KVCE is a radio station in Highland Park, Texas that services the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The station is currently owned by Dallas Broadcasting, LLC and is operated by Salem Communications Corporation.

The station operates on 1160 kHz with 35,000 watts during the day and 1,000 watts at night and is owned by Texas Lieutenant Governor and Houston-based radio station owner Dan Patrick.

History

The station was formerly on 1150 kHz as KVIL and used the call letters KVIX from October 1985 to August 1986. The calls changed back to KVIL until November 1994. The station was owned by Infinity until October 1996, when it was sold to Marcos A. Rodriguez, who was its owner until August 2003. Marcos A. Rodriguez programmed it with foreign language programs. Due to the popular Pakistani and Indian music and talk programs, 1150 became all-Pakistani formatted. The station was 1000 watts daytime only with a 6 tower directional array north of Irving for a number of years. Either in the late 1980s or early 1990s, it was able to get a grant of 5 watts of power for night operation. With the directional signal looking right down I-635 on the north side of Dallas, it barely covered that area from the tower site to the I-635/US-75 interchange.