KVFM signed on the air November 14, 1958. It was owned by the San Fernando Valley Broadcasting Company, a business of Walter Gelb and Ted Bolnick. KVFM, "Valley FM", was the first FM radio station for the San Fernando Valley, maintaining studios in the Porter Hotel. Spectra Properties acquired the station in 1960. In 1972, Spectra attempted to sell KVFM to West Coast Media, owners of
KTBT 94.3 FM in
Garden Grove; the sale was not consummated. Pacific Western Broadcasting bought KVFM in 1974 and sold it to Buckley Broadcasting in 1976. Buckley relaunched the frequency as KGIL-FM, a radio station playing
pop standards and sister station to
KGIL AM. On August 5, 1989, it became KMGX, "Magic 94.3". (
KTBT is now a
CHR station in
Tulsa, Oklahoma; while
KMGX is now a
classic rock station in
Bend, Oregon. The
KGIL-FM callsign is now attached to a
country music station in
Johannesburg, California.) Buckley sold KMGX to Chagal Broadcasting in 1994. On November 18, KBUA and KEBN, the other area station on 94.3 FM, began simulcasting the same country music format, and 94.3 in San Fernando became KYKF. This lasted until October 31, 1996, after the San Fernando station was sold to Liberman and started simulcasting KBUE, and on January 31, 1997, it acquired the KBUA call letters.
Que Buena now reached most of metropolitan Los Angeles County, though reception remains difficult in some regions, such as the
San Gabriel Valley and
Malibu. A
booster station, KBUA-FM1 in
Santa Clarita, California, extends the signal's reach into the
Santa Clarita Valley. On June 25, 2000, 94.3 in Garden Grove became "Cool 94.3" in Anaheim, with a "cool
AC" format (somewhat of a precursor to the
Jack FM format), and the call letters changed to KMXN on September 29. Liberman acquired KMXN in 2003, and on January 7 of that year, started simulcasting the KBUE–KBUA signal, giving
Que Buena coverage in nearly all of Orange County. ==References==