KQUR (94.9 FM "Digital 94.9 FM") is a Spanish

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markets.

History

KOYE signed on in 1972 on 92.7 MHz with 3,000 watts of effective radiated power. A year later, it moved to 94.9 and increased its power to 100,000 watts. In 1999, KOYE became KQUR and adopted a rock format known as "Cure 95". In 2007, KQUR flipped its format from

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"Jammin' 94.9" to

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"94.9 The Works - Fully Loaded Music". Initially a success, BMP Radio realized that the Laredo Borderplex needed a more popular format, fitting for the area. So in 2009, the station flipped its format to

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while retaining the name. In February 2012, station ownership moved the format to

XHGTS-FM XHGTS-FM (107.3 MHz) is a classic hits-format radio station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, serving Nuevo Laredo and Laredo, Texas Laredo ( ; ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Webb County, Texas, Webb County, ...

107.3 FM for a few days; at the time, a Mexican affiliate of Border Media Partners owned and operated XHGTS. As a result, the Digital Spanish Top 40 format that had been on XHGTS was instituted on KQUR. KQUR's programming was formerly simulcast over local low-power television station KNEX-LP channel 55.

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* QUR QUR Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 2007 {{Texas-radio-station-stub