KXTN-FM

Last updated
KVBH
City San Antonio, Texas
Broadcast area San Antonio metropolitan area
BrandingVibe 107.5
Frequency 107.5 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air dateDecember 31, 1967 (as KBUC-FM at 106.3)
Format FM/HD1: Rhythmic Adult Contemporary
HD2: Tejano (KXTN simulcast)
Language(s) English
ERP 95,100 watts
(98,000 with beam tilt)
HAAT 434 m (1,424 ft)
Class C0
Facility ID 67064
Transmitter coordinates 29°16′29.00″N98°15′52.00″W / 29.2747222°N 98.2644444°W / 29.2747222; -98.2644444 Coordinates: 29°16′29.00″N98°15′52.00″W / 29.2747222°N 98.2644444°W / 29.2747222; -98.2644444
Callsign meaning K ViBe H
Former callsignsKBUC-FM (1967-1988)
KZVE (1988-1991)
KXTN-FM (1991-2015; 2015-2019)
KMYO (1/13-2015-1/20/2015)
Former frequencies106.3 MHz (1967-1974)
Owner Uforia Audio Network
(Tichenor License Corporation)
Sister stations KXTN, KMYO, KROM, KBBT
Television stations KNIC & KWEX

KVBH (107.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in San Antonio, Texas. [1] The station is owned by Univision and it airs a Rhythmic Adult Contemporary radio format. [2] Studios and offices are located on Network Boulevard in Northwest San Antonio. [3] The transmitter site is in Elmendorf, Texas, on Elmendorf-Lavonia Road. [4]

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San Antonio City in Texas, United States

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KVBH broadcasts in the HD Radio format. Its HD2 subchannel carries the former Tejano format now broadcast on KXTN. KXTN & KVBH HD-2 are the Spanish-language FM flagship station for the San Antonio Spurs basketball team. During game broadcasts, KVBH HD-2 continues to air Tejano music through the Uforia app, while the digital signal carries the Spurs' play-by-play. 1350 KCOR began simulcasting Tejano 107.5 in April 2019, changing its calls to KXTN in the process. On April 12, 2019 at 5:00pm, KXTN-FM dropped its longtime Tejano format as it flipped to Rhythmic AC. The first song on "Vibe 107.5" was "Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison.

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KXTN is a commercial AM radio station broadcasting a Tejano radio format. Licensed to San Antonio, Texas, United States, the station serves the San Antonio metropolitan area. The station is owned by Univision Radio, under the license of Tichenor License Corporation. The station also broadcasts on KVBH's HD-2 signal. Its studios and transmitter are located separately in Northwest San Antonio.

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History

KBUC-FM

On December 31, 1967, the station signed on as KBUC-FM. [5] Its community of license was Terrell Hills, Texas, and it broadcast at 106.3 MHz. The power was only 3,000 watts, a fraction of its current output. KBUC-FM was the FM counterpart to AM 1310 KBUC, a daytimer, so programming could continue to be heard on the FM station after sunset. (AM 1310 is now KAHL.) KBUC-AM-FM simulcast a country music format. They were owned by Tom E. Turner and the Turner Broadcasting Corporation, not related to the current day Turner Broadcasting System.

Terrell Hills, Texas City in Texas, United States

Terrell Hills is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States; it is located 5 miles (8 km) northeast of downtown San Antonio. As of the 2010 census Terrell Hills had a population of 4,878. It is part of a group of three cities — Terrell Hills, Alamo Heights, and Olmos Park — located between Uptown San Antonio, Midtown San Antonio, Downtown San Antonio, and Fort Sam Houston. Terrell Hills is bordered on the west by Alamo Heights, on the east by Fort Sam Houston, on the north by Uptown San Antonio, and on the south by San Antonio's Near East Side. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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In 1974, KBUC-FM moved from 106.3 to 107.5 to make way for a new station, KTUF 106.3 (now KTKX 106.7). [6] The move also included a power increase to 100,000 watts and a change in community of license to San Antonio. The new, more-powerful signal allowed KBUC-FM to be heard for many miles around the San Antonio radio market. KBUC-AM-FM continued airing country music and personality DJs, plus news from the ABC Information Network.

KTKX classic rock radio station in Terrell Hills, Texas, United States

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Switch to Tejano

In 1986, KBUC-AM-FM were bought by TK Communications. In 1988, TK Communications changed the FM station's call sign to KZVE, becoming a Spanish-language adult contemporary station, known as "K-Suave" (K-Soft). KBUC (AM) became KXTN, airing a Tejano music format.

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Tejano music or Tex-Mex music is various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas. With roots in the late 19th century, it became a music genre with a wider audience in the late 20th century thanks to artists such as Selena, Mazz, La Mafia, La Sombra, Elida Reyna, Elsa García, Laura Canales, Oscar Estrada, Jay Perez, Emilio Navaira, Esteban "Steve" Jordan, Gary Hobbs, Shelly Lares, Stefani Montiel, David Lee Garza, Jennifer Peña, and La Fiebre.

In 1991, TK Communications decided to flip the formats on the two stations, given that 1310 had significantly higher ratings than the FM counterpart. This resulted in 1310 AM becoming Spanish AC, as KZVE, while 107.5 switched to Tejano. The AC format stayed on AM 1310 until 1997, when it began simulcasting 107.5. In addition, 1310 changed its call letters to KXTN, while 107.5 simply added an "-FM" suffix, becoming KXTN-FM.

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case ending, which indicate the grammatical cased of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs.

In 2003, Univision, which owns scores of radio and TV stations in some of the largest Hispanic media markets, bought KXTN-AM-FM. Univision now owns four radio and two TV stations in the San Antonio market.

Vibe 107.5

On April 12, 2019 at 5:00pm, KXTN-FM dropped its longtime Tejano format as it flipped to Rhythmic AC. The first song on "Vibe 107.5" was "Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison. Univision has requested new KVBH calls for the facility, representing the new Vibe name.

KXTN-FM in Other Texas Cities

Since 2009, the station had rebroadcast on a subchannel of co-owned KFZO (previously KESS-FM) in Lewisville via HD Radio on 107.9 HD-2. KFZO serves the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. However, on June 29, 2013, with KESS-FM suddenly flipping formats on the main station from Rhythmic Top 40 "Hot 107.9" to Regional Mexican as "La Jefa" (previously on KFZO), the KXTN simulcast was replaced with the "Hot" format on 107.9-HD2 for over 2 weeks.

KXTN-FM programming was heard on the subchannels of these Univision-owned Texas radio stations:

LocationCallsignNicknameFrequency
Dallas-Ft.Worth, Texas KFZO Tejano HD Dallas107.1-HD2
Dallas-Ft.Worth, Texas KESS-FM Tejano HD Dallas107.9-HD2
Houston, Texas KLTN Tejano HD Houston102.9-HD2
Austin, Texas KLJA Tejano HD Austin107.7-HD2

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References

  1. ↑ "KVBH Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  2. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron. Archived from the original on 2010-03-01.
  3. ↑ KXTN.com/contact
  4. ↑ Radio-Locator.com/KXTN-FM
  5. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1969 page B-167
  6. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1975 page C-191
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