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| Broadcast area | Greater Houston |
| Frequency | 102.9MHz (HD Radio) |
| Branding | Qué Buena 102.9 |
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| Language | Spanish |
| Format | Regional Mexican |
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First air date | October 4, 1960 (65 years ago) (1960-10-04) |
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Call sign meaning | Station formerly branded as Estéreo Latino |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 65310 |
| Class | C0 |
| ERP | 99,500 watts |
| HAAT | 300 m (984 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 29°45′26.8″N95°20′19.8″W / 29.757444°N 95.338833°W /29.757444; -95.338833 |
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| Website | www |
KLTN (102.9FM; "Que Buena 102.9") is aregional Mexican radio station broadcasting inHouston, Texas, United States. Owned byUnivision Radio, its studios are inUptown Houston and the transmitter is located on the historic (1948)KNUZ tower, along with sister stationKAMA-FM, at 315 N. Ennis Street in theEast End.
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 asKODA.
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 ownedKNUZ (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, byRobert F. X. Sillerman and his company, SFX Broadcasting.
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, aModern AC format known as "The Planet", under Steve Hick's Capstar Broadcasting ownership (the first song on "The Planet" was "You Oughta Know" byAlanis Morissette).[3][4] After a series of mergers, the station came under the ownership ofClear Channel Communications. Clear Channel was forced to spin off several stations in the Houston area to meetFederal Communications Commission ownership restrictions.
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 footMissouri 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 93.3KLTN and 104.9KLTO, 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 becameUnivision Radio, the station's current owner.
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 stationKQBU-FM, which itself dropped the brand and format recently to simulcast its other sisterKAMA-FM "Latino Mix 104.9".[8]
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