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KVNS

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City
  
Brownsville, Texas

Frequency
  
1700 kHz

Format
  
Sports

Branding
  
Fox Sports Radio 1700

First air date
  
March 6, 1998

Broadcast area
  
McAllen-Brownsville-Harlingen

KVNS (1700 AM, Fox Sports Radio 1700) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Brownsville, Texas, United States, the station is currently owned by iHeartMedia and features programming from Fox News Radio, Premiere Radio Networks and Westwood One. It shares studios with its sister stations, KHKZ, KQXX-FM, KTEX, and KBFM, located close to the KRGV-TV studios in Weslaco, Texas, while its transmitter is located near Brownsville, Texas.

History

The station was assigned the call letters KQXX on March 6, 1998. On February 26, 2004, the station changed its call sign to the current KVNS. On February 3, 2004, the station was sold to Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses, and on February 17, 2009, the station was sold to Clear Channel Broadcasting Licenses.

On September 17, 2012, KVNS changed their format from classic hits to sports, with programming from Fox Sports Radio.

References

KVNS Wikipedia