KQBU (920 kHz) is a silent AM radio station licensed to El Paso, Texas. It is owned by 97.5 Licensee TX, LLC, an American subsidiary of Grupo Radio Centro (GRC). The station had a sports radio format until it lost its tower site. It stopped broadcasting on September 19, 2022.
History
KELP and KBNA
The station received its first license, as KELP. It signed on in 1947 as a 1,000 watt daytime-only station. After ownership by Paso Broadcasting Company and Trinity Broadcasting Corporation, it was sold to noted Top 40 programmer Gordon McLendon in 1954. McLendon added a couple of transmission towers in order to add night authority with 500 watts power, as well as to add an antenna for a new TV station, KILT. The old tower site was 4530 Delta Drive on the property used for the city of El Paso sewage treatment plant.
In 1957, KELP and its TV station were sold to KELP Radio Corporation, which changed the TV station's calls to KELP-TV.