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KKBQ
KKBQ (92.9 FM), branded as "93Q Country", is a commercial radio station with a country music format. KKBQ is licensed to Pasadena, Texas, serving the Greater Houston area. The station is owned by Urban One, and is part of a Houston radio cluster that includes KGLK, KHPT, KMJQ and KBXX. Studios and offices are located in Suite 2300 at 3 Post Oak Central in the Uptown district in Houston, and its transmitter site is near Missouri City off Farm-to-Market Road 2234.
The station signed on at 92.5 FM in August 1962 as KLVL-FM, Houston's first Spanish-language FM station, "La Voz Latina".
In 1969, the station's original owner, Felix Morales, sold station for $175,000 in cash to Sudbrink Broadcasting. The callsign was changed to KFMZ and the format changed to MOR during the day and oldies at night. Its transmitter facilities were located on the top of the Pasadena State Bank building (demolished in July 2019), operating with 15 kilowatts effective radiated power. Due to complaints from KFMK, the calls were changed to KYED (on air moniker was "Keyed"), which aired paid religious programming during the day and oldies at night.
After upgrading to a powerful 100,000–watt signal atop the new One Shell Plaza in 1971 to cover the entire Houston market, the station changed its call letters to KYND ("Kind 92") and adopted the syndicated Beautiful Music format of Stereo Radio Productions. Soon after this upgrade, Sudbrink sold KYND for over $2 million, over a tenfold return on his original investment. KYND grew to be the dominant beautiful music outlet in Houston, and in 1976 became the first FM radio station to top the Houston radio ratings.
On July 2, 1982, The New 79Q was launched on 790 AM KULF with a Top 40 format. The morning show was composed of John Lander and the Q-Morning Zoo, and proved to be an instant success. The station acquired the KKBQ callsign on August 13, 1982.
The station's owners decided to add the Top 40 format to KYND, its beautiful music format was beginning to see a decline in ratings as younger listeners thought of the format as "elevator music."
On December 29, 1982, at 6:00 a.m., "Houston's Stereo Combination" (a term coined by morning host John Lander since 790 AM was in AM stereo, originally the Kahn ISB and later the Motorola C-QUAM format) was born as KYND became The New 93KBQ, simulcasting part of the day on KKBQ (AM). The first song played was "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. The same song was used for the launch of WHTZ in New York City on August 2, 1983.
The FM acquired the KKBQ-FM callsign two months later in February 1983.
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KKBQ
KKBQ (92.9 FM), branded as "93Q Country", is a commercial radio station with a country music format. KKBQ is licensed to Pasadena, Texas, serving the Greater Houston area. The station is owned by Urban One, and is part of a Houston radio cluster that includes KGLK, KHPT, KMJQ and KBXX. Studios and offices are located in Suite 2300 at 3 Post Oak Central in the Uptown district in Houston, and its transmitter site is near Missouri City off Farm-to-Market Road 2234.
The station signed on at 92.5 FM in August 1962 as KLVL-FM, Houston's first Spanish-language FM station, "La Voz Latina".
In 1969, the station's original owner, Felix Morales, sold station for $175,000 in cash to Sudbrink Broadcasting. The callsign was changed to KFMZ and the format changed to MOR during the day and oldies at night. Its transmitter facilities were located on the top of the Pasadena State Bank building (demolished in July 2019), operating with 15 kilowatts effective radiated power. Due to complaints from KFMK, the calls were changed to KYED (on air moniker was "Keyed"), which aired paid religious programming during the day and oldies at night.
After upgrading to a powerful 100,000–watt signal atop the new One Shell Plaza in 1971 to cover the entire Houston market, the station changed its call letters to KYND ("Kind 92") and adopted the syndicated Beautiful Music format of Stereo Radio Productions. Soon after this upgrade, Sudbrink sold KYND for over $2 million, over a tenfold return on his original investment. KYND grew to be the dominant beautiful music outlet in Houston, and in 1976 became the first FM radio station to top the Houston radio ratings.
On July 2, 1982, The New 79Q was launched on 790 AM KULF with a Top 40 format. The morning show was composed of John Lander and the Q-Morning Zoo, and proved to be an instant success. The station acquired the KKBQ callsign on August 13, 1982.
The station's owners decided to add the Top 40 format to KYND, its beautiful music format was beginning to see a decline in ratings as younger listeners thought of the format as "elevator music."
On December 29, 1982, at 6:00 a.m., "Houston's Stereo Combination" (a term coined by morning host John Lander since 790 AM was in AM stereo, originally the Kahn ISB and later the Motorola C-QUAM format) was born as KYND became The New 93KBQ, simulcasting part of the day on KKBQ (AM). The first song played was "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. The same song was used for the launch of WHTZ in New York City on August 2, 1983.
The FM acquired the KKBQ-FM callsign two months later in February 1983.