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KBFM
KBFM (104.1 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Edinburg, Texas, carrying a bilingual English/Spanish language rhythmic contemporary format known as "Wild 104". Owned by iHeartMedia, the station serves the Lower Rio Grande Valley. KBFM's studios are located in Weslaco while the station transmitter resides in Bluetown. In addition to a standard analog transmission, KBFM broadcasts in HD Radio using the in-band on-channel standard, and streams online via iHeartRadio. History After signing on in 1972, KBFM started out with a broad-based Top 40 direction when it debuted the format on the air in 1974. But in 2004 they shifted to Rhythmic Top 40, thus putting them in competition with KBTQ (which would later exit the format in October 2005). Prior to relaunching as "Wild 104" in February 2004, KBFM has been previously known as "B104". KBFM changed ownership several times in the mid-1990s, with Calendar Broadcasting selling the station to Tate Communication Inc. in October 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBTQ
KBTQ (96.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Latin ballad format. Licensed to Harlingen, Texas, United States, the station serves the McAllen area. The station is currently owned by Latino Media Network. History KMBS "Stereo 96" signed on the air in June 1975. The English-language adult contemporary station was owned by Magic Valley Broadcasting, Inc. Two years later, in July 1977, Pedro "Pete" Díaz, Jr., bought out all of Magic Valley's stockholders. In early 1977, KMBS became a Spanish contemporary radio station; On July 20, the station received new KIWW call letters. Tichenor acquired KIWW in 1988. KIWW carried a Tejano format until 2002, when it flipped to Rhythmic Top 40 as KBTQ. As this flipped occurred, the call letters "KIWW" remained in radio jingles and sweepers for a brief amount of time until the switch to the call letters of KBTQ. During the time of KBTQ 96.1 The Beat, shows that were broadcast included: "The Slammin' 7 at 7:47 (PM)," "Heartbeats on Sunday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KVNS
KVNS (1700 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Brownsville, Texas, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia and features programming from Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks and Westwood One. It shares studios with its sister stations, KHKZ, KQXX-FM, KTEX, and KBFM, located close to the KRGV-TV studios in Weslaco, Texas, while its transmitter is located near Brownsville, Texas. History KVNS originated as the expanded band "twin" of an existing station on the standard AM band. In 1949 a license was issued for a new Brownsville radio station, KBOR on 1600 kHz, owned by Brownsville Broadcasting Company. On March 17, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available " Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with KBOR authorized to move from 1600 kHz to 1700 kHz. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KQXX-FM
KQXX-FM (105.5 FM, "Kiss FM 105.5 & 106.3") is a radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary music format, simulcasting its sister station KHKZ. Licensed to Mission, Texas, United States, the station serves the McAllen area. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia It shares a studio with its sister stations, KHKZ, KBFM, KTEX, and KVNS, located close to the KRGV-TV studios in Weslaco, Texas, while its transmitter is located in Mission, Texas. History On January 3, 1983, the FCC granted a construction permit to Mission Broadcast Enterprises, owned by Lino Canales and Gustavo Valadez, Jr., for a new radio station in Mission, KITM. Before going to air, the construction permit was sold to KITM, Inc. in April 1984. By January 1986, the station was on the air as "Star 105". KITM was sold to RGV Broadcasting, Inc. in 1991; on March 25, the new owners relaunched KITM as KVTY "Victory 105" with a contemporary Christian format. By January 1992, however, KVTY had shifted form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTEX
KTEX (100.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Mercedes, Texas, United States, the station serves the McAllen, Weslaco, Harlingen, Brownsville, Texas, area. The station is owned by iHeartMedia. It shares a studio with its sister stations KBFM, KQXX-FM, KHKZ, and KVNS, located close to the KRGV-TV studios in Weslaco, Texas, while its transmitter is located in Bluetown, Texas. References External links * TEX Tex may refer to: People and fictional characters * Tex (nickname), a list of people and fictional characters with the nickname * Joe Tex (1933–1982), stage name of American soul singer Joseph Arrington Jr. Entertainment * ''Tex'', the Italian ... Country radio stations in the United States Mass media in Brownsville, Texas Radio stations established in 1980 IHeartMedia radio stations {{Texas-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHKZ
KHKZ (106.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to San Benito, Texas, United States, the station serves the Rio Grande Valley. The station is currently owned by iHeartMedia. It shares a studio with its sister stations, KTEX, KBFM, KQXX-FM, and KVNS, located close to the KRGV-TV studios in Weslaco, Texas, while its transmitter is located in La Feria, Texas. History KHKZ started off as country KTEX 106 (KTXF). Then in 1983 changed calls to KGAR and format to Hot AC. In 1989 the callsign letters were changed to KBOR-FM. Then again in 1992 the callsign letters were changed to KTJN. In 2003 the callsign letters were changed to KMAZ. In 2004 the callsign letters were changed to KHKZ. Branding Hot Kiss 106.3 (2004-2011) In 2004 the station used the branding ''Hot Kiss 106.3''. KISS 106.3 (2011–2015) On February 19, 2011, KHKZ removed the ''Hot Kiss'' branding and replaced it with ''Kiss 106.3''. The station also changed its logo, with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Rio Grande Valley
The Lower Rio Grande Valley ( es, Valle del Río Grande), commonly known as the Rio Grande Valley or locally as the Valley or RGV, is a region spanning the border of Texas and Mexico located in a floodplain of the Rio Grande near its mouth. The region includes the southernmost tip of South Texas and a portion of northern Tamaulipas, Mexico. It consists of the Brownsville, Harlingen, Weslaco, Pharr, McAllen, Edinburg, Mission, San Juan, and Rio Grande City metropolitan areas in the United States and the Matamoros, Río Bravo, and Reynosa metropolitan areas in Mexico. The area is generally bilingual in English and Spanish, with a fair amount of Spanglish due to the region's diverse history and transborder agglomerations It is home to some of the poorest cities in the nation, as well as many unincorporated, persistent poverty communities called ''colonias''. A large seasonal influx occurs of "winter Texans" — people who come down from the north for the winter and then ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville () is a city in Cameron County in the U.S. state of Texas. It is on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the border with Matamoros, Mexico. The city covers , and has a population of 186,738 as of the 2020 census. It is the 139th-largest city in the United States and 18th-largest in Texas. It is part of the Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan area. The city is known for its year-round subtropical climate, deep-water seaport, and Hispanic culture. The city was founded in 1848 by American entrepreneur Charles Stillman after he developed a successful river-boat company nearby. It was named for Fort Brown, itself named after Major Jacob Brown, who fought and died while serving as a U.S. Army soldier during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). As a county seat, the city and county governments are major employers. Other primary employers fall within the service, trade, and manufacturing industries, including a growing aerospace and space transpor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburg, Texas
Edinburg ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. Its population was 74,569 as of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, and in 2019, its estimated population was 101,170, making it the second-largest city in Hidalgo County, and the third-largest city in the larger Rio Grande Valley (Texas), Rio Grande Valley region. Edinburg is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission metropolitan area, McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen Metropolitan Area, Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas. History In 1908, John Closner, William Briggs, Argyle McAllen, Plutarco de la Viña, and Dennis B. Chapin developed a new community at this site. The town square was located at the current crossroads of U.S. Highway 281 and Texas State Highway 107, State Highway 107. The town was named "Chapin" in honor of one of the developers. A local myth relates that Edinburg became the county seat of Hidalgo County in a dramatic, nighttime covert operation in whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Stations In Texas
The following is a list of Federal Communications Commission, FCC-licensed AM broadcasting, AM and FM broadcasting, FM Radio broadcasting, radio stations in the U.S. state of Texas, which can be sorted by their Call signs in North America, call signs, Radio spectrum, broadcast frequencies, city of license, cities of license, licensees, or radio format, programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * KBAL-FM * KCER-LP * KERB-FM * KJNZ * KJOJ-FM * KLBW * KMUL (AM), KMUL * KM2XVL * KNSH (AM), KNSH * KOTY (Texas), KOTY * KOZA * KPHS * KPRO (Texas), KPRO * KQTY (AM), KQTY * KRHC * KSTB * KULF * KXAL-LP * KXGC-FM * KZSP See also * Texas#Media, Texas media ** List of newspapers in Texas ** List of television stations in Texas ** Media of List of cities in Texas by population, cities in Texas: Abilene, Texas#Media, Abilene, Amarillo, Texas#Local media, Amarillo, Austin, Texas#Media, Austin, Beaumont, Texas#Media, Beaumont, Brownsville, Texas#Media, Brownsville, Dallas#Media, Dal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cumulus Media
Cumulus Media, Inc. is an American broadcasting company and is the third largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind Audacy and iHeartMedia. As of June 2019, Cumulus lists ownership of 428 stations in 87 media markets. It also owns and operates Westwood One. Its headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia. Its subsidiaries include Cumulus Broadcasting LLC, Cumulus Licensing LLC and Broadcast Software International Inc. Company history Origins Cumulus Media was established in August 1998 by radio consultant Lewis Dickey Jr. and media and technology entrepreneur Richard Weening. The Telecommunications Act of 1996, among other legislation, relaxed media ownership restrictions, allowing a single owner to possess or control an unprecedented number of radio stations per market and nationwide. Dickey, then a nationally known radio programming consultant, was acting as a consultant to a small radio group in which Weening had a personal investme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluetown, Texas
Bluetown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cameron County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The population was 356 at the 2010 census. Prior to the 2010 census the community was part of the Bluetown-Iglesia Antigua CDP. It is part of the Brownsville– Harlingen Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Bluetown is in southwestern Cameron County, bordered to the west by Iglesia Antigua and to the south by the Rio Grande, which forms the Mexico–United States border. U.S. Route 281 passes through the community, leading southeast to Brownsville and west to Hidalgo. La Feria is to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. The Census Bureau is part of the ..., the Bluetown CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 2.72%, is water. Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythmic Contemporary Radio Stations In The United States
Rhythmic may refer to: * Related to rhythm * Rhythmic contemporary, a radio format * Rhythmic adult contemporary, a radio format * Rhythmic gymnastics, a form of gymnastics * Rhythmic (chart) The Rhythmic chart (also called Rhythmic Airplay, and previously named Rhythmic Songs, Rhythmic Top 40 and CHR/Rhythmic) is an airplay chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. The chart tracks and measures the airplay of songs played on ..., Billboard music chart See also * {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
