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KQBU-FM
Radio station in Texas, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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KQBU-FM (107.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Benbrook, Texas, United States, serving communities in the western sections of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned and operated by the Uforia Audio Network, a division of TelevisaUnivision. It has a Spanish-language contemporary hit radio format, simulcast with co-owned 107.9 KDXX in Lewisville, Texas.
KQBU-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for non-grandfathered FM stations. The transmitter is off Tin Top Estates Road in Horseshoe Bend.[1] While simulcast partner KDXX has a signal covering Dallas, Fort Worth and communities north of the Metroplex, into Oklahoma, KQBU-FM has a signal covering communities west of Fort Worth. KQBU-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology.[2]
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This facility began broadcasting as KYOT-FM 106.7 in Granbury, Texas, in January 1990.[3] It broadcast a big band and adult standards format from a transmitter in Erath County, 9 miles (14 kilometres) from Bluff Dale. Its original owner was David Carter, a former KTVT employee and owner of the Johnson County News newspaper.[4] The station had its studios at the transmitter site and business offices in Fort Worth.[5] The call sign was changed to KCYT in 1992.[1] After KAAM (1310 AM) flipped from big band to sports in 1993, KCYT was the only local station in the format.[6]
In 1995, Carter sold the station to Heftel Broadcasting, which flipped it to a Tejano music format. Heftel owned two other facilities[7] Heftel paired it with stations at 99.1 FM and 107.9 FM to create Kick, a regional trimulcast serving areas from Waco to Wichita Falls.[8]
When Hispanic Broadcasting Company bought the 94.1 MHz facility and flipped it to KLNO "Estéreo Latino", it was originally simulcast on 106.7 until 2000, when the stations other than KLNO flipped to a soft adult contemporary format known as Amor.[9] In 2002, Hispanic Broadcasting Company moved the station from Granbury to Benbrook at 107.1 MHz.[10] The change was part of a 17-station shuffle in Texas and Oklahoma that moved KXGM into the market.[11] The Amor format was simulcast on 107.9 until January 2003.[12]
The station had been branded as "Estereo Latino" until February 19, 2009, when "La Que Buena" was moved from 107.9 FM (KESS-FM) and simulcast on 99.1 FM (KFZO). The Reggaeton station known as "La Kalle" was then moved to 107.9 FM and retooled to Latin Pop/CHR.
On June 23, 2011, KDXX changed its format from a simulcast of Regional Mexican-formatted KFZO 99.1 FM, known as La Jefa,[13] to Spanish adult hits, branded as "Recuerdo 107.1". A year later, Univision broke up the simulcast and moved the La Jefa format back to the 107.1 frequency, which changed call signs from KDXX to KFZO.[14]
On July 29, 2013, KFZO flipped to a simulcast of Spanish AC KDXX 99.1. The following month, on August 9, 2013, KFZO swapped call signs with KESS. On September 28, 2014, 107.1 rebranded as "Latino Mix" as part of the implementation of the brand in seven markets.[15]
On October 8, 2025, Univision flipped the format of KQBU-FM 93.3 in the Houston market to "Estéreo Latino 93.3". It moved the KESS call sign to that facility and KQBU-FM to Benbrook.[16]
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