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KURV
KURV (710 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Edinburg, Texas, United States, and serving the Rio Grande Valley. It broadcasts a news-talk format and is owned by Grupo Multimedios, through licensee Leading Media Group Corp. The studios and offices are on North Jackson Road in McAllen. By day, KURV is powered at 1,000 watts. At night it slightly reduces power to 910 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times, with a three-tower array at night. The transmitter is off W Rogers Road at Business U.S. Route 281, 2 miles north of Edinburg. Programming Weekdays begin with a local news and information show, ''The Valley’s Morning News With Sergio Sanchez''. Sanchez continues for another two hours with a talk show. Afternoons feature ''The Drive Home with Zack Cantu, and Davis Rankin''. The rest of the weekday schedule is made up of nationally syndicated conservative talk programs, including '' Brian Kilmeade and Friends, The Dana Loesch Show, The ... [...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. The population was 100,243 at the 2020 census, and in 2022, its estimated population was 104,294, making it the second-largest city in Hidalgo County, and the third-largest city in the larger Rio Grande Valley region. Edinburg is part of the McAllen–Edinburg–Mission and Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan areas. Edinburg is home to the main campus of University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. History In 1908, John Closner, William Briggs, Argyle McAllen, Plutarco de la Viña, and Dennis B. Chapin began to develop a new community at this site. The town square was located at the current crossroads of U.S. Highway 281 and 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 which the county records were removed from the previous county seat. Howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KBUC
KBUC (102.1 MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a tejano music format. Licensed to Raymondville, Texas, United States, the station serves the McAllen-Brownsville-Harlingen and Reynosa-Matamoros border area. The station is owned by Grupo Multimedios, through licensee Leading Media Group Corp. The station has obtained a construction permit from the FCC for a power increase to 37,000 watts. KBUC also served as the flagship station for the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees. KBUC formerly broadcast a country music format but flipped on August 15, 2011, at 5:00 p.m. History The Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit for the station to Sendero Multimedia, Inc. on December 15, 1980. The station was assigned the call sign KSOX-FM on November 16, 1981, and received its license to cover on April 21, 1983. On April 22, 1994, the station changed its call sign to KILM. The station's license and that of Mirando City, Texas-based KBDR were assigned by Sendero on A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHRR-FM
XHRR-FM (102.5 MHz) is a commercial radio station licensed to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and serving the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. It broadcasts a Regional Mexican radio format and is known as ''La Ley 102.5 FM''. While XHRR-FM is a Mexican radio station, it broadcasts from studios in Reynosa and in McAllen, Texas, and airs advertisements aimed at a U.S. audience. It is owned by Radio Ultra, S.A. de C.V. It had previously been simulcast with stations KESO and later KZSP on South Padre Island. XHRR-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 45,000 watts. Its transmitter is located in Prisciliano Delgado, Tamaulipas. Its signal covers several Texas cities including, McAllen, Brownsville and Edinburg. History XHRR received its concession on July 10, 1980. It was owned by Romeo Flores Salinas. It had previously been affiliated with MVS Radio, carrying its FM Globo format until 2000 and Exa FM from 2000 to 2005. In April 2019, R Communications sold the Radio United statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Rio Grande Valley
Lower Rio Grande Valley (), often referred to as the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) of South Texas, is a region located in the southernmost part of Texas, along the northern bank of the Rio Grande. It is also known locally as the Valley or the 956 (the area code for the region). It 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. In the United States, it consists of the Brownsville-Harlingen and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metropolitan areas, and the Rio Grande City-Roma and Raymondville micropolitan areas. In Mexico, it consists of the Matamoros, Río Bravo, and Reynosa metropolitan areas. 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 unincorpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHRYS-FM
XHRYS-FM (90.1 MHz) is a radio station in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. It broadcasts from the Multimedios tower at El Control, Tamaulipas. History XHRYS received its concession on August 10, 1988 and always been owned by Multimedios Radio Multimedios Radio is the radio division of Grupo Multimedios, Grupo Firmas Globales, operating 61 radio stations in Mexico. Multimedios traces its history to the founding of XEAW-AM in the late 1930s. Stations Monterrey, Nuevo León Multimed ... through subsidiary, Radio Informativa S.A. The Radio Recuerdo romantic format had previously broadcasting on XHAAA-FM, moving to XHRYS. Later rebranding as Stereo Recuerdo until the early 2000s, it became Stereo Hits and rebranding Hits FM in 2011. In December 2023, the station leased operations to US based Radio United, and Ultra 90.1 with a CHR format was launched. External links Official website References Multimedios Radio Radio stations in Reynosa Contemporary hit radio stations in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHCAO-FM
XHCAO-FM (89.1 MHz) is a radio station in Ciudad Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, serving Reynosa, Tamaulipas and Rio Grande Valley, Texas. History XHCAO began on 101.7 FM, with a concession awarded to Liza Garza Acosta on August 16, 1994. In 2000, it was sold to Radio BMP de Ciudad Camargo, around the same time it moved to 89.1 FM. It broadcast the formats La Comadre, La Mejor and La Ley until 2006 when it was transferred to XHRR-FM. In April 2019, R Communications sold the Radio United stations in Mexico, including XHCAO, XHAVO, and XHRR, to Radio Ultra, S.A. de C.V., a company owned by the Bichara family. The Federal Telecommunications Institute The Federal Telecommunications Institute (Spanish Language, Spanish: ''Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones''; abbreviated as IFT and incorrectly referred to as IFETEL, Tzeltal language, Tzeltal: ''Snaul jtsob a’telelil Sk’asesojibal k’o ... (IFT) approved the transfer on September 2, 2020. External links raiostationworld. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
XHAVO-FM
XHAVO-FM (101.5 MHz) is a radio station in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, serving Reynosa and the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. It is owned by Radio United and known as Digital 101.5. History The concession for XHAVO was obtained by Edilberto Huesca Perrotín on February 22, 1992. In 1998, the station was sold to Grupo ACIR transmitting "La Comadre" with a Regional Mexican format and by the early 2000s it became Digital 101.5 with a CHR format. ACIR sold XHAVO to an affiliate of Border Media Partners in 2004, and when BMP sold its Rio Grande Valley stations, XHAVO was included in the sale to R Communications, LLC. In April 2019, R Communications sold the Radio United stations in Mexico, including XHCAO, XHAVO, and XHRR, to Radio Ultra, S.A. de C.V., a company owned by the Bichara family. The Federal Telecommunications Institute The Federal Telecommunications Institute (Spanish Language, Spanish: ''Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones''; abbreviated as IFT and incorrectly refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlingen, Texas
Harlingen ( ) is a city in Cameron County, Texas, Cameron County in the central region of the Rio Grande Valley (Texas), Rio Grande Valley of the southern part of the U.S. state of Texas, about from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than and is the second-largest city in Cameron County, as well as the fifth-largest in the Rio Grande Valley. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 71,892. Harlingen is a principal city of the Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Brownsville-Harlingen-Raymondville CSA, Brownsville–Harlingen–Raymondville combined statistical area, included in the Matamoros–Brownsville Metropolitan Area, Matamoros–Brownsville metropolitan region. History Harlingen's strategic location at the intersection of U.S. Route 77 in Texas, U.S. Route 77 and U.S. Route 83 in Texas, U.S. Route 83, codesignated as Interstate 69E, Interstate 69 East and Interstate 2, respect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brownsville, Texas
Brownsville ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Cameron County, Texas, Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border, border with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The city covers , and had a population of 186,738 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, it is the List of United States cities by population, 136th-most populous city in the United States and List of cities in Texas by population, 18th-most populous 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 (Texas soldier), Jacob Brown, who fought and died while serving as a United States Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McAllen, Texas
McAllen is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Hidalgo County. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, on the Mexican border. The city limits extend south to the Rio Grande, across from the Mexican city of Reynosa. McAllen is about west of the Gulf of Mexico. As of the 2020 census, McAllen's population was 142,210, making it the 21st-most populous city in Texas. It is the fifth-most populous metropolitan area ( McAllen–Edinburg–Mission) in the state of Texas, and the binational Reynosa–McAllen metropolitan area counts a population of more than 1.5 million. From its settlement in 1904, the area around McAllen was largely rural and agricultural in character, but the latter half of the 20th century had steady growth, which has continued in the 21st century in the metropolitan area. The introduction of the ''maquiladora'' economy and the North American Free Trade Association led to an increase in cross-bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of Power (physics), power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3. It is used to quantification (science), quantify the rate of Work (physics), energy transfer. The watt is named in honor of James Watt (1736–1819), an 18th-century Scottish people, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved the Newcomen engine with his own Watt steam engine, steam engine in 1776, which became fundamental for the Industrial Revolution. Overview When an object's velocity is held constant at one meter per second against a constant opposing force of one Newton (unit), newton, the rate at which Work (physics), work is done is one watt. \mathrm. In terms of electromagnetism, one watt is the rate at which electrical work is performed when a current of one ampere (A) flows across an electrical potential difference of one volt (V), meaning the watt is equivalent to the vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Station
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio station, while in '' satellite radio'' the radio waves are broadcast by a satellite in Earth orbit. To receive the content the listener must have a broadcast radio receiver (''radio''). Stations are often affiliated with a radio network that provides content in a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast, or both. The encoding of a radio broadcast depends on whether it uses an analog or digital signal. Analog radio broadcasts use one of two types of radio wave modulation: amplitude modulation for AM radio, or frequency modulation for FM radio. Newer, digital radio stations transmit in several different digital audio standards, such as DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), HD radio, or DRM ( Digital Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
