Claim: Phil Richardson, sold the construction permit to a group headed by former KXEW owner Ernesto Portillo, who launched the station as Spanish-language outlet KQTL in 1985; then the station's Spanish contemporary music format continued into the 1990s until KQTL (acquired by Armando Zamora) was sold in 1996 to CIMA Broadcasting.
Evidence: The lead investor in winning applicant El Saguarito Broadcasting Company, Phil Richardson, sold the construction permit to a group headed by former KXEW owner Ernesto Portillo, who launched the station as Spanish-language outlet KQTL in 1985. The station's Spanish contemporary music format continued into the 1990s KQTL was sold in 1996 to CIMA Broadcasting, in which Portillo and other people involved with El Saguarito were investors, for $600,000. Four years later, Armando Zamora's One Mart Corporation, which was in the process of selling its station at 1030 kHz (then KEVT, now KVOI), acquired KQTL.