KCOR Station License
date: label: date made
content: May 1, 1946
notes: label: Description
content: This radio license gave Raoul A. Cortez -- journalist, entrepreneur, and civil rights leader -- the right to open his own radio station and broadcast on AM 1350. Cortez first applied for the license in 1944, but the the Federal Communications Commission had banned foreign language broadcasting for the duration of World War II (1941-1945). Cortez argued that Spanish-lanugage programming would bolster Mexican American support for the war. Nevertheless, he had to wait two years before the FCC granted him permission to broadcast in 1946.
label: Description
content: The license also marked an important milestone in broadcasting history; Cortez launched the first station owned and operated by a Mexican American in the contentinal United States. The call letters, KCOR, incorportated his last name, Cortez. The K indicated that the station was west of the Mississippi River. The KCOR studio in San Antonio, Texas became a stopping point for major performers from Texas, Mexico and the wider US, including Leonardo "Lalo" Garcia Astol and Bob Hope. It also broadcast news, religious programming, and talk shows that served the needs of the Mexican American community, and announcers used the signature line La Voz Mexicana.
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Latino
label: Subject
content: Radio and television broadcasting
label: Subject
content: Entertainment
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content: Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
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content: KCOR Radio and Television
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Univision Communications, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.3001.02
label: catalog number
content: 2015.3001.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 2015.3001
label: accession number
content: 2015.3001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: license
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 11 1/8 in; 35.56 cm x 28.2575 cm