KURV

KURV first signed on on the air on October 19, 1947. It broadcast with 250 watts of power and was a daytime only station, required to go off the air at sunset to avoid interfering with other stations. KURV was owned by J.C. Looney.^[5]

A sister station, KURV-FM, began broadcasting two months later, on December 25, 1947. It used 104.9 MHz with 1,000 watts effective radiated power.^[6] Few people owned FM radios in that era and management eventually turned in the license and took KURV-FM dark. Today, the frequency is home to KJAV-FM.

On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with KURV authorized to move from 710 to 1640 kHz.^[7] However, the station never procured the construction permit needed to implement the authorization, so the expanded band station was never built.

In 2004, Border Media Partners bought KURV and KSOX in Raymondville for $7.5 million.^[8] MBM Texas Valley LLC later acquired KURV, co-owned with KBUC in Raymondville and KESO in South Padre Island.

Effective February 10, 2021, MBM sold KURV and three sister stations to Grupo Multimedios for $6 million.

• R Communications Rio Grande Valley Radio Archived March 3, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
• FCC History Cards for KURV

• Facility details for Facility ID 70463 (KURV) in the FCC Licensing and Management System
• KURV in Nielsen Audio's AM station database

26°19′43″N 98°09′35″W / 26.32861°N 98.15972°W / 26.32861; -98.15972