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KBUU-LP is an FM radio station serving Malibu, Calif. at 97.5 FM and on the web at www.radiomalibu.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, and it went on the air in January, 2015. The station calls itself 97.5 KBU and uses two slogans: "On The Air, On The Web, On The Beach" and "More Rock Than K-ROCK, More Alt Than Alt 98.7" in reference to two Los Angeles radio stations.
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."
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, 11:07 and 12:07 p.m. Headlines are posted on several social websites including Twitter [1] and Facebook [2], and posted daily at 8:15 a.m. Pacific time www.kbu.fm/newswire.html. It carries Democracy Now! from Pacifica Radio weeknights at 5p. 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 The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra weekly concert from Disney Hall, "The American Parlor Series" with JP Houston and Julie Van Dusen, and "eTown."
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 the only radio station 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 [3]). Its 20 volunteer hosts or program sources all feed their shows to the studio for broadcast.
KBUU-LP transmits with 55 watts of effective radiated power on 97.5 megaHertz as authorized by the Federal Communications Commission in Washington D.C. 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. KBUU-LP has applied to the FCC to alter its transmitter and increase its transmitting power to 55 watts ERP.