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KQBU-FM
KQBU-FM (93.3 Hertz, MHz "TUDN Radio Houston") is a commercial radio, commercial radio station broadcasting a Spanish language Sports radio, sports radio format, simulcast on KLAT in Houston. KQBU-FM is city of license, licensed to Port Arthur, Texas, and primarily serves the Houston-Beaumont, Texas, Beaumont-Port Arthur area. It is owned by the Uforia Audio Network (DBA Univison Houston Local Media) and carries programming from the co-owned TUDN Radio Network. The station airs Spanish-language broadcasts of the Houston Astros MLB, baseball team, the Houston Rockets NBA, basketball team, and the Houston Dynamo FC MLS, MLS soccer team. The radio studios are in the Univision Building at 5100 Southwest Freeway in Uptown Houston and the transmitter is in Devers, Texas. KQBU-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, currently the maximum for FM stations. Station history KFMP, KYKR, KLTN KQBU-FM first began broadcasting on September 11, 1959, under the call sign K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLTN
KLTN (102.9 FM "Que Buena 102.9") is a Regional Mexican radio station broadcasting in Houston, Texas, United States. Owned by Univision Radio, its studios are in Uptown Houston and the transmitter is located on the historic (1948) KNUZ tower, along with sister station KAMA-FM, at 315 N. Ennis Street in the East End. History Allocation Beginnings as KPRC-FM, KHGM 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 as KODA. KQUE 103 Broadcasting returned to 102.9 FM when KQUE signed on the air with an adult standards format 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 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KAMA-FM
KAMA-FM (104.9 FM, ''"104.9 Latino Mix"'') is a commercial radio station licensed to Deer Park, Texas, and serving the Greater Houston radio market. It is owned by the Uforia Audio Network, a subsidiary of Univision, and it airs a Spanish-language CHR/Top 40 radio format. KAMA-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 10,500 watts and is a Class C2 FM station (equivalent to 50,000 watts at 500 feet). The transmitter is located on the historic 1948 KNUZ tower, along with sister station 102.9 KLTN, at 315 N. Ennis Street in the East End. The studios and offices are located in the Univision building in Uptown Houston, on the Southwest Freeway (U.S. Highway 59). History KFRD-FM and KPTY Originally, the station was licensed to Rosenberg, Texas. It signed on the air on January 7, 1969, as KFRD-FM, the sister station to AM 980 KFRD. KFRD-AM-FM simulcast a country music format. Since being owned by Univision, and its predecessor Tichenor Broadcasting, 104.9 has switched formats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KLAT
KLAT (1010 AM "TUDN Radio Houston") is a commercial radio station in Houston, Texas. It is owned by the Uforia Audio Network and airs a Spanish-language sports radio format from the co-owned TUDN Radio Network. The station serves as the Spanish flagship radio station of the Houston Astros baseball team and the Houston Rockets basketball team and also airs Houston Dynamo FC soccer games. KLAT has studios and offices located at 5100 Southwest Freeway in Uptown Houston. The transmitter site is on West Little York Road in northwest Houston. By day, KLAT broadcasts at 5,000 watts. But to protect other stations on 1010 AM, a Canadian clear-channel frequency, KLAT must reduce power at night to 3,600 watts. History Early years as KODA On July 31, 1961, the station signed on as KODA. It was put on the air by Paul Taft of the Taft Broadcasting Compan(no relation to Taft Broadcasting of Cincinnati, Ohio). Taft already owned an FM station, 99.1 KODA-FM, airing a beautiful music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOVE-FM
KOVE-FM (106.5 MHz) is a Spanish-language radio station serving the Houston and Galveston areas from Galveston, Texas. KOVE-FM is owned by Uforia Audio Network, a division of Univision Communications. The studios are in Uptown Houston and the transmitter is in Santa Fe, Texas. History This specific facility, licensed to Galveston in 1990, is in no way related to the previous Galveston station launched in 1968 as KGBC-FM (106.1 FM), then sold and moved to 106.5 FM, and re-licensed as KUFO in 1974. That facility, with shifting ownership and declining fortunes, became KXKX in 1979 and KQQK. The original 106.5 signed off forever in 1986, ultimately having its license cancelled by the FCC in March 1989. KQQK This incarnation of 106.5 was licensed and signed on January 8, 1990, retaining the KQQK calls used by the former KUFO facility before its license was surrendered nearly a year earlier. The new KQQK became a wildly successful Tejano format, utilizing a bilingual approach in both m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uforia Audio Network
Uforia Audio Network () is the radio broadcasting and music events division of TelevisaUnivision USA. Formerly known as Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation and Univision Radio, it is the eighth-largest radio broadcaster in the United States, and the largest specifically catering to Hispanic and Latino Americans. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. History Univision, previously known as Hispanic Broadcasting Corp. (between 2000 and September 22, 2003) and Heftel Broadcasting Corp, was the result of a February 14, 1997 merger of Tichenor Media System, Inc., a private company based in Dallas, Texas, and Heftel Broadcasting, a public company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tichenor had been in broadcasting since the 1940s. McHenry Tichenor operated a station (KGBS on 1240, later KGBT on 1530) in Harlingen, Texas. In 1950, they added KUNO Corpus Christi, Texas. Later station purchases were KIFN in Phoenix, Arizona; WGMA in Hollywood, Florida; & WACO-AM-FM and TV (construction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uptown Houston
Uptown (more commonly called The Galleria Area) is a business district in Houston, located west of Downtown and is centered along Post Oak Boulevard and Westheimer Road (Farm to Market Road 1093). The Uptown District is roughly bounded by Woodway Drive to the north, the I-610 (West Loop) to the east, Richmond Avenue to the south, and Yorktown Street to the west. It covers . At of office space, the Uptown District is the 17th-largest business district in the United States, comparable in size to the downtowns of Denver and Pittsburgh.Office " ''Uptown Houston''. Retrieved on January 18, 2009. The district is home to approximately 2,000 companies and represents more than 11 percent of Houston's total office space. History In 1948 what is now Uptown was outsi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumont, Texas
Beaumont is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat, seat of government of Jefferson County, Texas, Jefferson County, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur, Texas, Port Arthur Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, metropolitan statistical area, located in Southeast Texas on the Neches River about east of Houston (city center to city center). With a population of 115,282 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Beaumont is the largest incorporated municipality by population near the Louisiana border. Its metropolitan area was the List of Texas metropolitan areas, 10th largest in Texas in 2019, and List of metropolitan statistical areas, 132nd in the United States. The city of Beaumont was founded in 1838. The pioneer settlement had an economy based on the development of lumber, farming, and port industries. In 1892, Joseph Eloi Broussard opened the first commercially successful rice mill in Texas, stimulating development of rice farming in the area; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFTH-DT
KFTH-DT (channel 67) is a television station licensed to Alvin, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the Houston area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Rosenberg-licensed Univision outlet KXLN-DT (channel 45). Both stations share studios near the Southwest Freeway (adjacent to the I-610/I-69 interchange) on Houston's southwest side, while KFTH's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County. In addition to its own digital signal, KFTH is simulcast in high definition on KXLN's second digital subchannel (UHF channel 30.2 or virtual channel 45.2) from a separate transmitter near Missouri City. History The station first signed on the air on January 27, 1986 as KTHT, under the ownership of 4 Star Broadcasting. Operating as an independent station, it programmed a general entertainment format consisting of off-network drama series, children's programming, classic movies, game sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KXLN-DT
KXLN-DT (channel 45) is a television station licensed to Rosenberg, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Houston area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Alvin-licensed UniMás outlet KFTH-DT (channel 67). Both stations share studios near the Southwest Freeway (adjacent to the I-610/I-69 interchange) on Houston's southwest side, while KXLN-DT's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County. In addition to its own digital signal, KXLN is simulcast in high definition on KFTH's fifth digital subchannel (virtual channel 67.5) from a separate transmitter near Missouri City. History The earliest attempt at launching channel 45 was in 1968, when the Overmyer Network/United planned to launch the station as KJDO-TV. In February 1980, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) designated three applications seeking channel 45 in Rosenberg for hearing. Trinity Broadcasting of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Radio
Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often- boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both hosts and callers. Many sports talk stations also carry play-by-play (live commentary) of local sports teams as part of their regular programming. Hosted by Bill Mazer, the first sports talk radio show in history launched in March 1964 on New York's WNBC (AM). Soon after WNBC launched its program, in 1965 Seton Hall University's radio station, WSOU, started ''Hall Line'', a call-in sports radio talk show focusing on the team's basketball program. Having celebrated its 50th anniversary on air during the 2015–2016 season, ''Hall Line'', which broadcasts to central and northern New Jersey as well as all five boroughs of New York, is the oldest and longest running sports talk call-in show i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TUDN Radio
TUDN Radio (formerly Univision Deportes Radio) is a U.S. Spanish-language sports radio network operated by Uforia Audio Network, a division of TelevisaUnivision. It launched on March 15, 2017 on ten AM and FM radio stations, most of which previously affiliated with the ill-fated Univision America until its 2015 closure. The network features stations in the states of Arizona, California, Texas, Illinois, Nevada, New York and Florida, covering half of the country's Hispanic population. While its main focus is on soccer, Univision Deportes Radio competed against ESPN Deportes Radio, owned by ESPN Inc., until 2019 which had 40 stations in 14 states. On July 20, 2019, the network was renamed TUDN Radio, as part of a wider multi-platform relaunch of the Univision Deportes division as TUDN, in partnership with Televisa. With the September 2019 discontinuation of ESPN Deportes Radio, the network picked up some of its former stations (including Los Angeles' KWKW). Programming At the lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Arthur, Texas
Port Arthur is a city in Jefferson County within the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Texas. A small, uninhabited portion extends into Orange County; it is east of Houston. The largest oil refinery in the United States, the Motiva Refinery, is located in Port Arthur. The population of Port Arthur was 53,818 at the 2010 census, down from 57,755 at the 2000 census. By 2020, its population rebounded to 56,039. Early attempts at settlements in the area had all failed. However, in 1895, Arthur Stilwell founded Port Arthur, and the town quickly grew. Port Arthur was incorporated as a city in 1898 and soon developed into a seaport. It eventually became the center of a large oil refinery network. The Rainbow Bridge across the Neches River connects Port Arthur to Bridge City. Port Arthur is vulnerable to hurricanes and extensive damage to the city has been caused several times. History Aurora was an early settlement attempt near the mouth of Taylor Bayo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
