KRGE is one of the Valley's oldest radio stations, receiving its license in 1925 with the callsign KFLU.
The station was owned by the San Benito Radio Club and broadcast for its first two years on 1270 kHz with 15 watts, later raised to 100.
Violent storms hit south Texas in August 1933, leaving KRGV's time-share partner in the lower Valley out of commission.
Two petitioners, involved in the operation of KFDM radio in Beaumont, sought to deny the move of KWWG to Port Arthur, but were refused,[5] and KWWG left the Valley for Port Arthur with a new callsign, KPAC;[6] the station now operates on 1250 kHz as KDEI.
[6][7] KWWG's relocation to Port Arthur left KRGV alone on 1260, broadcasting from its new site in Weslaco, and four years later, O.L.
[4] In 1949, Taylor Radio and Television Corporation took over the station, and it was approved to increase power to 5,000 watts and mount an FM antenna on one of its towers.