Small-Town Texas Radio Station Launches With a Logistical Assist From the Lone Star National Bank

On the wings of the federally enacted Local Community Radio Act

In this day and age of smartphone apps and digital radio-station streams, it might seem odd to think that a low-powered FM outlet with only a terrestrial format would launch in the year 2017. But that’s the case this month in Brownsville, Texas, under the auspices of the Local Community Radio Act, passed by Congress in 2010.

KXIQ 105.1 FM, spearheaded by the Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts (BSPA), went live July 12. When the organization approached the Lone Star National Bank to seek permission to put an FM antenna on the roof, the bank threw in third-floor studio and office space.

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