With the change, this brought back the Classic rock format to the Rio Grande Valley for the first since 2015, when iHeartMedia-owned station KQXX-FM dropped that format for a simulcast of Hot AC-formatted station KHKZ, also owned by iHeartMedia.
The change reinstated the classic rock format in the Rio Grande Valley for the first time since 2015, when iHeartMedia's KQXX-FM had abandoned it to air a simulcast of its own Hot AC-formatted station, KHKZ.