KLTN

KLTN
	Univision building in Houston
Houston, Texas; United States;
Broadcast area	Greater Houston
Frequency	102.9 MHz (HD Radio)
Branding	Qué Buena 102.9
Programming
Language(s)	Spanish
Format	Regional Mexican
Subchannels	HD2: TUDN Radio (KLAT); HD3: Tejano (KXTN);
Ownership
Owner	Uforia Audio Network; (Univision Radio Illinois, Inc.);
Sister stations	KAMA-FM, KOVE-FM, KQBU-FM; KXLN-DT, KFTH-DT
History
First air date	October 4, 1960 (64 years ago)
Former call signs	KQUE-FM (1960–1997); KKPN (1997–1998);
Call sign meaning	Station formerly branded as Estéreo Latino
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	65310
Class	C0
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	300 m (984 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	29°45′26″N 95°20′18″W / 29.75722°N 95.33833°W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	Que Buena Online

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

Prior use of 102.9 in Houston

The first station to use 102.9 MHz in Houston was KPRC-FM, which moved there from 99.7 MHz at 3 pm on December 24, 1946. 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 on October 4, 1960. It was co-owned by Dave Morris who also owned KNUZ (1230 AM).^[2]

Beginning in 1961, the station had a ERP of 280,000 watts, making KQUE a "superpower FM" (running more than the 100 kW 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, by Robert F. X. Sillerman and his company, SFX Broadcasting.

The Planet

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, a Modern AC format known as "The Planet", under Steve Hick's Capstar Broadcasting ownership (the first song on "The Planet" was "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette).^[3]^[4] After a series of mergers, the station came under the ownership of Clear Channel Communications. Clear Channel was forced to spin off several stations in the Houston area to meet Federal Communications Commission ownership restrictions.

Estereo Latino

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 foot Missouri City antenna 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 93.3 KLTN and 104.9 KLTO, on March 29, 1998.^[5]^[6] The station was assigned the current KLTN call letters on June 25, 1998 after being moved from 93.3.^[7] Heftel merged with Tichenor Media to create Hispanic Broadcasting, which later became Univision Radio, the station's current owner.

Que Buena

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 station KQBU-FM, which itself dropped the brand and format recently to simulcast its other sister KAMA-FM "Latino Mix 104.9".^[8]

References

^ "Facility Technical Data for KLTN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
^ "KQUE-FM Broadcasts Start Today". Houston Post. October 4, 1960. p. 3:2.
^ Louis B. Parks, "Radio stations make changes", The Houston Chronicle, March 20, 1997.
^ http://www.americanradiohistory.com/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://www.americanradiohistory.com/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

Que Buena Website
Facility details for Facility ID 65310 (KLTN) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
KLTN in Nielsen Audio's FM station database

[1] "Facility Technical Data for KLTN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

[2] "KQUE-FM Broadcasts Start Today". Houston Post. October 4, 1960. p. 3:2.

[3] Louis B. Parks, "Radio stations make changes", The Houston Chronicle, March 20, 1997.

[4] ttp://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1997/RR-1997-03-28.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[5] Bruce Westbrook, "'The Planet,' KQUE changing their formats", The Houston Chronicle, May 27, 1998.

[6] ttp://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1998/RR-1998-06-05.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}

[fcc1-7] "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.

[8] “Que Buena Returns To Houston” from Radio Insight (April 11, 2018)

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