KHOT-FM (105.9 MHz) is a radio station licensed to

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. Carrying a

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format, the station serves the

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area. The station, owned by

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, is known as "Que Buena 105.9".

History

KXLL/KBUQ

KHOT signed on the air on July 19, 1996, carrying a

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format known as "Young Buck Country". Before the station was on the air, the call letters were KXLL. The call letters were changed shortly after sign on to KBUQ to complement the "Young Buck Country" branding. Attempts to put this station on the air had been ongoing for years prior to the 1996 sign-on. It was originally owned by Scottsdale Talking Machine and Wireless Co., Inc., and its primary quandary was where to put a tower in one of the Valley's richest areas. The new station desired to place its tower on Mummy Mountain, which met with aesthetic challenges. At one point, it proposed covering its antenna and tower in a fiberglass housing designed to look like a cactus, which was rejected by residents. The station ultimately signed on from a tower in Fountain Hills.

KHOT

On October 10, 1997, the format changed to

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, known as "Hot 105.9".http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-10-17.pdf The station then changed call letters to KHOT, which moved from 100.3 FM in 1997. At that time, the station was owned by New Century Arizona Broadcasting. KHOT dropped most of its current R&B hits to focus more on a

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direction, playing mostly 1970s and 1980s R&B and Disco, which most similarly-formatted stations at that time were doing. In 1999, KHOT was sold to Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation and flipped to its current format on April 5 of that year. The 105.3 frequency was added in 2001, creating a simulcast. KHOT during this time carried ''Piolín Por La Mañana'' (''"Tweety in the Morning"''), hosted by

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. The program originated from

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-based sister station KSCA and was popular among Spanish-speaking Hispanics in Phoenix. Univision Radio dismissed Piolín in 2013. The PM drive show is known as ''El Show Del Gatillero Del La Tarde''. In March 2016 KHOT-FM rebranded as "Qué Buena 105.9".

References

External links

Que Buena's website
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