The station is owned by Urban One, and is part of a Houston radio cluster that includes 107.5 KGLK, 106.9 KHPT, 102.1 KMJQ & 97.9 KBXX.

Studios and offices are in Suite 2300 at 3 Post Oak Central in the Uptown district in Houston, Texas, United States[2][3] and the transmitter site is near Missouri City off Farm-to-Market Road 2234.

[4] KKBQ has been nominated twice for Country Music Association awards for Best Radio Station in a Large Market, winning once.

The callsign was changed to KFMZ, its transmitter facilities located on the top of the Pasadena State Bank building (demolished in July 2019), operating with 15 kilowatts effective radiated power.

After upgrading to a powerful 100,000–watt signal atop the new One Shell Plaza in 1971 to cover the entire Houston market, the station changed its call letters to KYND ("Kind 92") and adopted the syndicated Beautiful Music format of Stereo Radio Productions.

(At the time, the Federal Communications Commission did not allow AM and FM stations to fully simulcast in medium and larger cities.)

[7] On October 5, 1985, John Lander and the Morning Zoo began broadcasting "Hit Music USA," a syndicated weekend show on 100 radio stations around the country.

In mid-1987, KRBE took a lean towards dance and began weekend mixshows called "The Friday and Saturday Night Power Mix".

The music skewed towards an 18+ crowd and eschewed Top 40 hits; true to the show's name, it was a mix of industrial, EBM, new wave, gothic rock, synthpop and Hi-NRG dance.

Ironically, a good amount of the music on 93Q Live On The Cutting Edge had actually been heard previously on KRBE's Saturday Night Power Mix.

KKBQ beat KRBE at its own game, and the Club 6400 shows set the standard for future mixshows on radio stations throughout Houston.

In an attempt to stem the ratings drop, the station declined to renew John Lander's contract as lead morning show personality.

Featuring music by artists such as Depeche Mode, 38 Special, Tom Petty and Bryan Adams, the new format was designed to appeal to older listeners.

[12][14][15] By this time, country music had become the most popular radio format in the United States, reaching almost 40% of the U.S. adult population each week.

At Midnight on September 19, 1991, after playing "Wind of Change" by The Scorpions, KKBQ began stunting with ocean wave sounds.

The new morning show team was Steven Craig, formerly of WYTZ in Chicago, and Nancy Alexander, a hold-over from the CHR days.

It was estimated that KKBQ was priced around $100 million, making it the single highest-priced radio station sold in Houston to that point.

[31] As part of a required divestiture to meet federal ownership regulations, Clear Channel sold KKBQ to Cox Radio in March 2000.