KOSJ

KOSJ (1490 AM) is an English radio station in Santa Barbara, California. It first began broadcasting in 1929 under the call sign KDB. The station is owned by Rincon Broadcasting.

The station had the call letters KFCR when it began operation on 720 kHz in 1926, moving to 1420 kHz the following year. It took the call letters KDB when it moved to 1500 kHz in 1929, and kept those call letters when it moved to 1490 kHz in 1941. In 1931, it became part of the Don Lee Network by virtue of being sold to Lee under the corporate name Santa Barbara Broadcasters. (See former sister station KDB for additional early history of the AM station.)

On January 11, 2007, Clear Channel Communications sold all of its radio stations in Santa Barbara to Rincon Broadcasting. On October 28, 2008, the KBKO call sign that had been used for 11 years were replaced with KIST, which had been dropped from 1340 AM (now KCLU).

On July 19, 2010, KIST changed their call letters to KSPE.

On September 15, 2010 the format was changed from progressive talk to Spanish adult hits under the name of "La Preciosa".

In July 2017, the format was changed to Spanish AC under the name of "LA MUSICAL"

On September 14th KSPE Began airing a loop in Spanish telling listeners LA MUSICAL Moved to KFYZ 94.5

On September 15th KSPE ended Stunting and Flipped to a rhythmic oldies format. KSPE changed their call letters to KOSJ

Classical (1980–1990)
Regional Mexican (1990–2007)
Progressive Talk (2007–2010)
Spanish Oldies (2010–2017) La Musical
Rhythmic Oldies (2017-Present) Old School 1490AM/94.1FM

• Template:FCC History Cards
• Facility details for Facility ID KOSJ ({{{2}}}) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• {{{2}}} in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
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• K231CR at FCCdata.org

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