KTSA

KTSA (550 AM) is a news-talk formatted radio station in San Antonio, Texas. Its studios are located in Northeast San Antonio, and the transmitter site is yards away from the studios.

The weekday schedule offers 10 hours of local talk, hosted by Trey Ware (5am Central Time - 9am), Jack Riccardi (9am - 1pm), and Sean Rima (4pm - 7pm). KTSA also carries all three hours of "The Dave Ramsey Show" live (1pm - 4pm). Evening and overnight hours include programming from Mark Levin, and Jim Bohannon. KTSA was acquired by BMP Radio in August, 2006. On July 27, 2009, Border Media Partners was taken over by its lenders in an "amicable manner," according to an FCC filing (radioink.com). Border Media had not made a debt payment in two years (San Antonio Express-News). This resulted in BMP selling the station to L&L Broadcasting (now Alpha Media) in 2013.

History

This radio station began as WCAR, founded by John C. Rodriguez of the Alamo Radio & Electric Company in September, 1922. WCAR was the second radio station in San Antonio, taking the airwaves shortly after WJAE which only lasted a few months.