KESS-FM

Infobox Radio Station


name = KESS-FM
airdate = 2003
frequency = 107.9 MHz HD Radio
city = Lewisville, Texas
area = Dallas/Fort Worth
format = Regional Mexican
owner = Univision Radio
licensee = KECS-FM License Corp.
erp = 100,000 Watts
haat = 299 meters
branding = "La Que Buena"
slogan =
class = C1
facility_id = 57376
webcast = [http://wmlive.vitalstreamcdn.com/live_eonwmss_vitalstream_com_univision-kess-fm-fast Listen Live]
website = [http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=9683&schid=9778 La Que Buena]
callsign_meaning = ESpanol
sister_stations = KDXX, KFLC, KFZO, KLNO
"Also part of the Univision Cluster: TV Stations KUVN and KSTR"|

KESS-FM (107.9 FM), branded as "La Que Buena", is a Spanish language radio station serving the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex in Texas. The station is licensed in Lewisville, Texas, and owned and operated by Univision Radio.

The KESS call letters were first used in D/FW in the spring of 1976 when Marcos Rodriguez, Sr. gained control of a country station, KBUY-FM, on 93.9 FM. That station changed to 94.1 when it moved it's transmitter to Cedar Hill, TX in order to avoid a spacing problem with another Dallas station.

The current version of 107.9 was made possible when Marcos Rodriguez successfully obtained a new class C2 licensed to Gainesville, Texas, and purchased 107.9, a Class C licensed to Corsicana, Texas. After Rodriguez sold to Heftel Broadcasting and Mac Tichenor gained control of HBC, Tichenor moved the Corsicana signal south to the Waco market (as the new class A6 in Robinson, TX called KHCK-FM) and allowed the Gainesville signal to upgrade and move into Dallas as a class C1 in Lewisville, TX. The call letters changed a few times through KDXX and KESS-FM.

External links

* [http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=9683&schid=9778 Radio La Que Buena 107.9 FM]
*FMQ|KESS
*FML|KESS
*FMARB|KESS