KBPO

KBPO (1150 AM) is a radio station that is licensed to Port Neches, Texas, USA. The station is on the air broadcasting Spanish Christian format and to serves the Beaumont-Port Arthur area. The station is currently owned by Christian Ministries of the Valley, Inc.

History

The station was originally licensed as KPNG, which stands for Port Neches-Groves; Port Neches is the community of license or COL. Groves is the neighbor city which shares the school district - Port Neches-Groves ISD. PNG is the abbreviation of the name and during the 1970s, PNG was a powerhouse high school football team, winning the Texas Class 4A (the largest) championship at Texas Stadium in Irving in December 1975. Its original format was Country and Western (as it was called then). Later, under owner Les Ledet, the callsign was changed to KSUZ, after Les's daughter Suzette and the format was a MOR (Middle of the Road). The station was assigned the call letters KDLF on 1978-07-01 and went through several radio preachers. On 1993-09-17, the station changed its call sign to KUHD, and on 2007-03-15 to the current KBPO.