KLTN
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Broadcast area | Greater Houston |
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Frequency | 102.9MHz(HD Radio) |
Branding | Que Buena 102.9 |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Spanish |
Format | Regional Mexican |
Subchannels | HD2:TUDN Radio(KLAT) HD3: Tejano (KXTN) |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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Radio:KAMA-FM,KOVE-FM,KQBU-FM TV:KXLN-DT,KFTH-DT | |
History | |
First air date | October 1, 1960 | (as KQUE)
Former call signs | KQUE-FM (October 1, 1960 – May 23, 1997) KKPN (May 23, 1997 – June 25, 1998) |
Call signmeaning | EstereoLaTiNo (former branding) |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 65310 |
Class | C0 |
ERP | 100,000watts |
HAAT | 300 m (984 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 29°45′26″N95°20′18″W/ 29.75722°N 95.33833°W |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | Que Buena Online |
KLTN(102.9FM"Que Buena 102.9" ) is aRegional Mexicanradio stationbroadcasting inHouston, Texas,United States. Owned byUnivision Radio,its studios are inUptown Houstonand the transmitter is located on the historic (1948)KNUZtower, along with sister stationKAMA-FM,at 315 N. Ennis Street in theEast End.
History
[edit]Allocation Beginnings as KPRC-FM, KHGM
[edit]102.9 originally signed on the air as KPRC-FM at 3 pm, December 24, 1946, when the station moved from the 99.7 frequency. Calls changed to KHGM (meaning "Home of Good Music) in November 1958. By April 1959 the station had moved again, back to the middle of the FM dial at 99.1 MHz, where it is now known asKODA.
KQUE 103
[edit]Broadcasting returned to 102.9 FM when KQUE signed on the air with anadult standardsformat on October 1, 1960, co-owned by Dave Morris who also owned 1230 AM,KNUZ.
The station had a ERP of 280,000 watts, making KQUE a "superpower FM" (running more than the 100KW ERP now allowed for top end FM stations) but was lowered to normal power after the tower was extended in the 1970s, was also known as "KQUE 103" until 1997, when the station was purchased from its local owner, Dave Morris, byRobert F. X. Sillermanand his company, SFX Broadcasting.
The Planet
[edit]At 4 p.m. on March 19, 1997, the KQUE callsign and standards format were moved to 1230 AM, with 102.9 then flipping to KKPN, aModern ACformat known as "The Planet", under Steve Hick's Capstar Broadcasting ownership (the first song on "The Planet" was "You Oughta Know"byAlanis Morissette).[2][3]After a series of mergers, the station came under the ownership ofClear Channel Communications.Clear Channel was forced to spin off several stations in the Houston area to meetFederal Communications Commissionownership restrictions.
Estereo Latino
[edit]KKPN, at that time, had the smallest overall coverage area of all the stations in the Clear Channel cluster (due to its 1,000-foot tower location east of downtown Houston) and it could not move to the 2,000 footMissouri Cityantenna farm.
KKPN was then sold to Heftel Communications, a company specializing in Spanish language broadcasting. Heftel changed the station to its current format, which moved from the two rimshot facilities 93.3KLTNand 104.9KLTO,on March 29, 1998.[4][5]The station was assigned the current KLTN call letters on June 25, 1998 after being moved from 93.3.[6]Heftel merged with Tichenor Media to create Hispanic Broadcasting, which later becameUnivision Radio,the station's current owner.
Que Buena
[edit]After nearly 20 years as either "Estereo Latino" or simply the dial position of "102.9", KLTN has been renamed "Que Buena 102.9" as of April 6, 2018, taking the name formerly used by its sister stationKQBU-FM,which itself dropped the brand and format recently to simulcast its other sisterKAMA-FM"Latino Mix 104.9". It has not been verified whether or not KLTN will swap calls with KQBU-FM to go with the newly christened 102.9 facility, as KLTN would also fit the newly formatted 93.3 facility, given the current nameLaTiNo Mix.[7]
Former callsigns
[edit]- KPRC – 10/1947 (Sign on, station moved from 99.7)
- KHGM – September 11, 1958 (moved to 99.1 on April 26, 1959)
- KQUE – January 10, 1960
- KKPN – May 23, 1997
- KLTN – June 25, 1998
References
[edit]- ^"Facility Technical Data for KLTN".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^Louis B. Parks, "Radio stations make changes",The Houston Chronicle,March 20, 1997.
- ^http:// americanradiohistory /Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-03-28.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^Bruce Westbrook, "'The Planet,' KQUE changing their formats",The Houston Chronicle,May 27, 1998.
- ^http:// americanradiohistory /Archive-RandR/1990s/1998/RR-1998-06-05.pdf[bare URL PDF]
- ^"Call Sign History".FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
- ^“Que Buena Returns To Houston”from Radio Insight (April 11, 2018)
External links
[edit]- Que Buena Website
- Facility details for Facility ID 65310 (KLTN)in theFCCLicensing and Management System
- KLTNinNielsen Audio's FM station database