KBUE
Que Buena Logo
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| City | Long Beach, California |
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| Broadcast area | Los Angeles/Orange County, California |
| Branding | Que Buena 105.5/94.3 FM |
| Frequency |
105.5 MHz Sirius XM Channel 563 |
| First air date | 1967 as KNAC |
| Format | Regional Mexican |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| Audience share | 1.7  (January 2017, Nielsen Audio[1]) |
| ERP | 3,000 watts |
| HAAT | 142 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 34386 |
| Callsign meaning | K(Que) BUEna |
| Former callsigns | KNAC |
| Owner |
Liberman Broadcasting (LBI Radio License LLC) |
| Sister stations |
KBUA, KEBN, KHJ, KRQB, KWIZ Also part of the Liberman Cluster: TV Station KRCA |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.aquisuena.com |
KBUE (105.5 FM, "Que Buena 105.5/94.3 FM") is an Spanish language regional Mexican music station licensed to Long Beach, California, owned by Liberman Broadcasting.
105.5 FM was formerly KNAC, a heavy metal music station until February 15, 1995, after the station was sold to Liberman, a Spanish-language broadcasting company. It acquired the KBUE call letters a few weeks later on March 6. KBUE's weak signal only reached the southern portion of Los Angeles County and northwestern Orange County. The format was "Ranchera Mexican style," said program director Fidel Fausto.
The Long Beach-based 105.5 frequency made its debut in 1961. The station was signed on as KLFM by Harriscope Broadcasting. Its studios were initially located in a trailer adjacent to its transmitter on Signal Hill, moving to Lakewood Center and then to 4406 Greenmeadow Road. Its initial programming was top 40 in a period where FM was broadcasting almost entirely beautiful music and classical music.
Arguably, this station was the first commercial FM station to program a non-simulcast Rock-based format on FM. In 1966, 105.5 was sold to International Cities, and its call letters changed to KNAC and adopted a full-time MOR format. The new owners (under general manager/chief engineer Bob Switzer) increased its ERP from 330 watts to more than 2000 watts, and moved its studios to the International Tower in downtown Long Beach.
The station continued in this mode for roughly a year. In late 1967, the station began programming Progressive Rock from 6PM to 6AM. The programming proved successful enough to make the Progressive Rock format full time at the station by 1969.
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