KBUU-LP

KBUU-LP is an FM radio station serving Malibu, Calif. at 99.1 FM and on the web at radiomalibu dot net. It transmits a modern rock format daytimes and community disc jockeys play their choices of music evenings. It is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as a low-power FM radio station,[1] and it went on the air in January, 2015.[2][3] The station calls itself 99.1 KBU and uses two slogans: "On The Air, On The Web, On The Beach" and [4]

Volunteer community programmers at KBUU-LP produce 40 hours of local music programs per week, including "Miles of Styles" Latin Jazz with Erin Laetz, "Bix Mix - jazz and way beyond with Bill Bixler," "Blues And Stuff" with Leslie Bixler," "Best of the Bu" with Malibu singers and songwriters with DJ EKG, "Big Rocks with Caryn Weiss," engineered by Brandi Jackson, "Malibu Trails Americana," "The KBU Collective" with Elena Corral, "Off The Lip with Sandy Bottoms, " Come Together With Brooke Halpin and the Beatles," "Joyriding The Coast, with Lisa Cypers Kamen," and "Harvesting Happiness, straight talk from engaging guests with Lisa Cypers Kamen."[5]

KBUU-LP produces 70 minutes of local newscasts per day, heard weekday mornings at 7:07, 7:37, 8:07, 8:37, 9:07, 10:07 and 12:07. Headlines are posted on several social websites including Twitter and Facebook , and posted daily at 9:15 a.m. Pacific time at the Malibu Times website.[6] It carries Democracy Now! from Pacifica Radio weekdays at 6 a.m.. News analyst Sam Hall Kaplan is on with "The Arts Observed" Fridays and "The City Observed" Saturdays. KBUU-LP carries "The California Report," a daily newscast from KQED-FM in San Francisco, weekdays at 7, 8 and 9a. It carries "The California Report Weekend Magazine" at 5 p.m. Saturdays, Pulse of the Planet science news five times each weekday, Le Show with Harry Shearer Sundays 4p, and the weekly broadcast meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California, engaging guests and smart questions from the Bay Area, Sundays 5-p. And KBUU-LP carries syndicated programs Sunday mornings: the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra weekly concert from Disney Hall, "The American Parlor Series" with JP Houston and Julie Van Dusen, and "eTown."[7]

KBUU-LP is licensed to Zuma Beach FM Emergency and Community Broadcasters, a committee of Malibu residents. Its station manager is Hans Laetz. Its programming originates at his house. KBUU-LP is one of the very few radio stations in the United States to be licensed to operate with its main studio in a private home (legal in the City of Malibu zoning code, see Malibu Municipal Code Sec. 19, B, Sec. ii [8][9] Its 20 volunteer hosts or program sources all feed their shows to the studio for broadcast.[10][11]

KBUU-LP transmits with 71 watts of effective radiated power on 99.1 MHz as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington D.C.

KBUU-LP was granted a construction permit on Nov. 13, 2017, to improve its signal in the Malibu area. In December, 2017, the station moved its transmission frequency to 99.1 mHz, increased its power from 55 to 71 watts, and re-oriented a directional antenna towards the Civic Center, instead of out to sea to the south. The station was issued a license to cover at 99.1 FM on December 20, 2017.

It is licensed to a committee of Malibu residents incorporated as a California non-for-profit public educational corporation known as Zuma Beach FM Community and Educational Broadcasters. It is found by the Internal Revenue Service to be a 501(c) organization, underwriting donations may be tax deductible under section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code (consult tax advisor). The station has a policy of affirmative action and equal opportunity. There are no paid employees.

References

  1. ↑ Original FCC construction permit
  2. ↑ KBU Begins Second Year on the Air
  3. ↑ Malibu Tunes into KBU Radio
  4. ↑ On the air, on the web, on the beach!
  5. ↑ http://www.kbu.fm
  6. ↑ KBU 975 Newswire
  7. ↑ http://www.kbu.fm
  8. ↑ Malibu Municipal Code
  9. ↑ L.A.'s Smallest Radio Station, 97.5 KBU, Broadcasts Out of a Malibu Bedroom
  10. ↑ KBU Begins Second Year on the Air
  11. ↑ KBU gets a ‘Handel’ on classical music
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