{"id":101449,"date":"2025-12-26T16:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101449\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:56:19","slug":"hot-country-debuts-in-corpus-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/101449\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Country Debuts In Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kaje-200x200-jpg.webp\" alt=\"Hot Country 107.3 KAJE Corpus Christi \" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-329724\"  \/>After stunting with mostly Country leaning Christmas music since December 1, ICA Broadcasting has flipped the former Regional Mexican \u201c107.3 Que Buena\u201d KAJE Ingleside\/Corpus Christi TX back to Country.<\/p>\n<p>KAJE relaunched at midnight as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebuena107.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hot Country 107.3<\/a>\u201d duplicating the branding <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/307600\/my-country-96-1-midland-odessa-promoting-friday-flip\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched in August<\/a> on co-owned \u201cHot Country 96.1\u201d KMRK-FM Odessa\/Midland.<\/p>\n<p>John Cruz will host mornings on the new brand, while cluster General Manager Kelly Morgan, who also hosts mornings on sister Classic Rock \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeagle1045.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">104.5 The Eagle<\/a>\u201d KPUS, will host afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>KAJE had been Country as \u201cMy Country 107.3\u201d and later \u201c107.3 The Bull\u201d until flipping to Regional Mexican <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/262747\/kaje-drops-country-for-regional-mexican\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the end of 2023<\/a>. The station rejoins a crowded Country marketplace that includes iHeartMedia\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/k99country.iheart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">K99<\/a>\u201d KRYS-FM, Quality Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kftx.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">97.5 KFTX<\/a>, and Claro Communications Classic Country \u201cRetro Country 105.9\/103.3\u201d KUKA.<\/p>\n<p>Original Report 12\/23: Going unnoticed for the past month, ICA Broadcasting\u2019s 107.3 KAJE Ingleside\/Corpus Christi TX has been stunting with a Country leaning Christmas music mix.<\/p>\n<p>KAJE dropped its Regional Mexican \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebuena107.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">107.3 Que Buena<\/a>\u201d brand on December 1 putting an end to the <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/262747\/kaje-drops-country-for-regional-mexican\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two year old<\/a> Regional Mexican brand.<\/p>\n<p>KAJE had a 1.6 share in the <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/ratings\/corpus-christi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spring 2025 Nielsen Audio ratings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After stunting with mostly Country leaning Christmas music since December 1, ICA Broadcasting has flipped the former Regional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-101449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}