KQBU-FM (93.3

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, and primarily serves the Houston-

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-Port Arthur area. It is owned by the

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(DBA Univison Houston Local Media) and carries programming from the co-owned

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Network. The station airs Spanish-language broadcasts of the

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s are in the Univision Building at 5100 Southwest Freeway in

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s, currently the maximum for FM stations.

Station history

KFMP, KYKR, KLTN

KQBU-FM first began broadcasting on September 11, 1959, under the

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KFMP-FM, and originally owned by Henry Diehl, under the licensed business name of Triangle Broadcasting Company. It was sold to Felix and James Joynt (d.b.a. KWEN Broadcasting Company) on June 18, 1969, becoming the FM sister to 1510

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Port Arthur, and having its own callsign to changed to KCAW-FM. The call sign was changed to KYKR-FM on October 1, 1974, rebranding as "Kicker 93" and beginning the legacy of KYKR on the FM dial in the Triangle. Steve Hicks purchased the AM & FM facilities in 1980. In 1989, Hicks proposed to move the FM signal off of the AM's tower in

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, and relocate it further west to

in order to rimshot Houston with its signal. A Construction Permit for the move was granted on October 10, 1989, and was licensed for operation at the new site on October 23, 1991. On July 2, 1992, the call sign was changed to KLTN, after the move from Port Arthur to Devers, as "Estereo Latino 93.3". On June 25, 1998, the station was then changed to "K-Love 93.3 y 104.9", the first simulcast with 104.9 FM (now

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) in Houston, and assigned the new calls of KOVE-FM. On July 30, 2001, the call sign was changed to KQBU-FM with the moniker "La Que Buena 93.3" for the first run of the Regional Mexican format on this frequency.

Party 93.3

On December 4, 2007, KQBU Que Buena 93.3, a

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outlet, became the new home of the "Party", which relocated from 104.9 to make room for the newly launched KAMA "Amor 104.9". After that switch was made, "Party 93.3" added the syndicated

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, with Big Boy, Luscious Liz, and Tattoo. The KPTY call sign was officially moved to 93.3 FM on December 11, 2007. On July 5, 2008, the station stopped targeting the Greater Houston area. Everything that the station had that referenced Houston were immediately dropped, including its slogan, and moved its broadcasting studios from Southwest Houston to Beaumont. The move was noticed in the ratings, as KPTY, which had good numbers in the Houston Arbitrons, began to dip after the frequency switch. In the process, it lost a fraction of listeners due to the 93.3 signal not covering all of the Houston metro.

Return to "Que Buena 93.3"

On February 27, 2009, Univision's Houston cluster announced that it was letting go most of its employees. KPTY would unfortunately be the biggest casualty of this move as the entire airstaff was pink-slipped and the station went jockless. At 10 P.M. on February 28, the station went live for a nightclub broadcast as scheduled. Many of the personalities that saw the format through its run from its early days at 100.7 and then later on 104.9, were on hand to send off "Houston's Party Station." At the end of the live broadcast at 2 A.M., the station returned to Regional Mexican and its former Que Buena 93.3 moniker on March 1. The call sign was officially changed back to KQBU-FM on March 10, 2009.

Latino Mix 104.9 y 93.3

On December 1, 2017, KQBU-FM changed the format from Regional Mexican to a simulcast of Spanish CHR-formatted

104.9 FM Deer Park. KQBU-FM's change provided a Spanish CHR format to the

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as well as serving the northern, eastern, and southeastern areas from Houston, which the 104.9 signal cannot reach.

TUDN Radio Houston

On September 27, 2021, KQBU-FM changed the format from a simulcast of Spanish CHR-formatted KAMA-FM to a simulcast of Spanish sports-formatted

1010 AM Houston, branded as "Your Station Of Champions".TUDN Radio Adds FM Simulcast In Houston
Radioinsight - September 24, 2021

Callsign & moniker history

*KYKR-FM - April 1, 1980 icker 93serving Beaumont *KLTN - July 2, 1992 stereo Latino 93.3*KOVE-FM - June 25, 1998 -Love 93.3 y 104.9*KQBU-FM - July 30, 2001 a Que Buena 93.3*KPTY FM - 2007-2009 arty 93.3*KQBU-FM - 2009–2017 a Que Buena 93.3*KQBU-FM - 2017–2021 atino Mix 104.9 y 93.3*KQBU-FM - 2021–Present UDN Radio Houston

Former logos

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External links

* {{Univision Communications Hispanic and Latino American culture in Houston QBU-FM Sports radio stations in the United States QBU-FM Univision Radio Network stations Radio stations established in 1959 1959 establishments in Texas