KQXX-FM (105.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Mission, Texas, serving the Rio Grande Valley. It is owned by iHeartMedia through licensee iHM Licenses, LLC. The station broadcasts under the “105.5 & 106.3 Kiss FM” brand in a simulcast with sister station KHKZ (106.3 FM) and airs a hot adult contemporary format.
History KQXX-FM began as KITM on 105.5 FM in Mission during the 1980s. In 1990, a sale of KITM from KITM, Inc. to RGV Broadcasting was announced. The station was relaunched in March 1991 as KVTY, branded “Victory 105”, with a contemporary Christian format. By 1992, KVTY had shifted to easy listening and also carried local high school and college sports.
The station was sold again in the early 1990s, and the call sign changed to KTJX in 1993. Contemporary radio listings identified KTJX as a Tejano station and recorded it as part of a simulcast with a 106.3 FM station serving the Lower Valley. In February 2000, the station changed its call sign to KBOR-FM.
Clear Channel Communications acquired KQXX-FM and three other Rio Grande Valley stations in 2003 in a $6.5 million transaction. The station subsequently operated as “Oldies 105.5” before adopting a classic rock format under the “105.5 The X” branding. In late 2015, KQXX-FM began simulcasting sister station KHKZ and adopted the “Kiss FM 105.5 & 106.3” branding, which remains in use.
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