KMNY
| City | Hurst, Texas |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex |
| Frequency | 1360 kHz |
| First air date | 1947 as KXOL |
| Format | Spanish |
| Power | 50,000 watts (day) 890 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Callsign meaning | MoNeY (branding for Biz Radio Network affiliation) |
| Former callsigns | KXOL (1947–1985), KWJS (1985–1988), KNRB (1988–1993), KAHZ (1993–2005) |
| Owner |
Multicultural Broadcasting (Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC) |
| Sister stations | KDFT |
| Website | 1360am |
KMNY (1360 AM, is a radio station in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, which broadcasts on 1360 kHz and is under ownership of Multicultural Broadcasting. As of February 2010, the station is broadcasting in Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek.
Although during the day, the station has a 50,000 watt signal that covers the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex adequately, at night KMNY's signal is significantly weaker. Nighttime reception can be problematic outside the immediate Dallas-Fort Worth area due to more powerful stations broadcasting on identical or nearby frequencies from elsewhere in the U.S. and Mexico.
KMNY was established in 1947 as KXOL and featured a variety of entertainment programs and country music during its early years. From 1956 to 1976, KXOL played Top 40 music, competing with 1270 KFJZ. Station personalities during the late 1950s included comedians George Carlin and Jack Burns. With the rise of FM radio and a decrease in ratings and revenue after the combination of Dallas and Fort Worth into one radio market, KXOL switched back to country music in 1976.
In the early-1980s, KXOL also carried the weekend editions of the Texas Night Train and Wonderful Radio London programs, which were carried full-time on Mexican border blaster station XERF-AM.
Other than the special weekend programming, KXOL continued as a country station until it was sold in 1985 and became KWJS, featuring Christian oriented programming. KWJS became KNRB in 1988, featuring country and then religious formats, and then became KAHZ in 1993, airing children's programming from the Radio AAHS network. After Radio AAHS discontinued operations in January 1998, Children's Broadcasting Corporation, KAHZ's owner, needed programming for the network of stations until they could find buyers. The station, along with the other nine CBC-owned and operated Radio AAHS affiliates, flipped to "Beat Radio", which broadcast electronic dance music 12 hours a day until late October 1998.
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