KJAV (104.9 FM, "Ultra 104.9") is a

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to serve

Alamo, Texas Alamo ( ), located in the Rio Grande Valley in what is nicknamed the "Land of Two Summers", is a city in the irrigated area of southern Hidalgo County, Texas, United States. Known as the "Refuge to the Valley", it is located in an area of abunda ...

, United States. The station is owned by Bi-Media, LLC, through licensee Bi-Media Licensee, LLC. The principals of Bi-Media are the Bichara family, which also owns the Núcleo Radio Monterrey cluster in

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, Mexico. On January 18, 2016, KJAV dropped the Jack FM branding and rebranded as ''Ultra 104.9''.

History

This station received its original

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from the

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on October 9,

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. The new station was assigned the KJAV

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by the FCC on January 14, 1980. KJAV received its license to cover from the FCC on October 23, 1980. In August 1986, license holder Lonnie M. Horton reached an agreement to sell this station to Paulino Bernal. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 10, 1986, and the transaction was consummated on May 4, 1987. In October 2004, La Radio Cristiana Network Inc. (Paulino Bernal Jr., president) reached an agreement to sell this station to

BMP Radio BMP Radio, also known as Border Media Partners, was a privately owned Hispanic focused radio broadcasting company headquartered in Houston, Texas. On July 17, 2009, ''Radio-Info.com'' announced that BMP would be seized by its banks after failing ...

through their BMP RGV License Company, LP, subsidiary holding company for a reported $7 million. The deal was approved by the FCC on December 14, 2004, and the transaction was consummated on January 16, 2005. At the time of the sale, KJAV broadcast a

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format. After

bought the station in 2005, they changed the Spanish format of the station. Later it became a

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format, branded as "Jammin 104.9 The Valley's Old School". The station had a morning show on weekdays with Tony Fornia and then played music with no

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s afterward. In August 2007, the station announced that it would soon change formats accompanied by the R.E.M. song "

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" every time it went to commercials. In mid-September 2007, the station flipped the format to

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. In 2009 Jack FM began broadcasting the games of the

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of the

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. On February 17, 2011, KJAV changed its call letters to KRIO-FM. This change proved short-lived as on March 3, 2011, KRIO-FM changed its call letters back to KJAV. BMP sold the station and five sister stations to Roberto González's MBM Texas Valley LLC for a purchase price of $2.5 million; the transaction was consummated on March 14, 2013. On November 6, 2015, KJAV and sister station

KVJY KVJY (840 AM) is a radio station licensed to Pharr, Texas. The station airs a Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain a ...

were sold to Bi-Media, LLC, which is controlled by members of the Bichara family. The transaction was consummated on December 31, 2015, at a purchase price of $2.2 million.

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