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On-Air Profiles

Our News & Weather Team

Sergio Sanchez is the Program Director for KURV 710 Talk Radio.

Sergio joined KURV in December 1995 as co-news anchor for The Morning Report. Between 1998 and 1999 Sergio worked as KURV News Director. Sergio created the afternoon news--talk show "The Drive Home" in 1999.

While at KURV, Sergio has received numerous awards from the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters including Best Reporter, Best Spot News by a Reporter, Best News Anchor, Best Investigative Report and Best Newscast. Sergio has also been recognized as a Media Advocate by the Small Business Administration in the Valley. He is very active with KURV efforts that support community organizations and U.S. soldiers.

You can hear and talk to Sergio on The KURV Morning Report weekdays 6 to 9am.

Davis Rankin is host of the longest-running talk show on Valley radio. In fact, Davis is host of the longest-running talk show in Valley radio OR television, the Davis Rankin Show, now referred to as the Drive Home with Davis Ranking 5 to 7pm. Davis has interviewed thousands of guests, from celebrities to politicians, the famous, the infamous and the just plain interesting. He believes everyone has an interesting story to tell regardless of his station in life and he is good at putting people at ease and getting them to talk. He strives each day to bring relevant and interesting subject to the show.

He has won numerous Best Commentary awards from the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Association. In previous lives, Davis has been a television reporter, a newspaper writer, a legislative aide in Austin and Press Secretary to a candidate for statewide office and a news clerk on The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.

Tim Sullivan joined KURV as the station’s News Director in January 2000. Tim has more than 25 years of news broadcasting experience, starting his professional career as a student at the University of North Dakota. Tim has worked as a street reporter, anchor, assignments editor, and news director at radio stations and networks in North Dakota, California, and Texas. At KURV, Tim co-anchors “The Morning Report”. The rest of his day is spent digging for news stories and working to get the most up-to-date and accurate information to KURV listeners first. Tim has won numerous individual awards from the Associated Press for his reporting and news coverage. He also helped bring KURV its first Radio-Television News Directors Association regional Edward R. Murrow award for spot news coverage in 2005, as well as the Dallas Press Club’s Katie Award, also for coverage of spot news. When not at the radio station, Tim enjoys listening to all kinds of music, and watching baseball, hockey, and good movies.

Jim Hearn is the most listened to farm broadcaster in Texas’s heaviest agricultural area and has been broadcasting to farmers in the Rio Grande Valley for thirty years. Jim’s farm listening ratings have been among the highest and most consistent of any farm broadcaster in the United States. Daily, Jim broadcasts the most up to date agri-business, markets, farm news and weather. Jim has been honored by area 4-H and FFA Chapters for his work with youth organizations, sitting on many area Livestock Committees. In 1999, Jim earned the Texas Farm Bureau Excellence in Agriculture Award, in 2001 the Outstanding Leadership in Communications by the Professional Agricultural Workers of Texas and has been honored by the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters for News and Website.

Addie Alvarez was born in McAllen and graduated from UTPA with a Mass Communications/Journalism degree. Her professional career began in Houston as an On-Air personality with KQQK, “The #1 Texano Station in the Nation”. Addie soon became DJ of the Year, an honor bestowed on her for five consecutive years. She also was voted as News Director of the Year for three years in a row. Addie has also been a Weather Anchor and Entertainment Reporter for Telemundo in Houston. After her mother required open heart surgery for a second time, she decided to make the move back home to the Rio Grande Valley. With a change of residence came a change in careers as Addie became an integral part of the KGBT – TV4 news family by accepting a job as news producer. Five years later, she was offered a position as Executive news producer for Univision 48 in McAllen Most recently Addie was a school teacher at Ruben C. Rodriguez Elementary in Edcouch. As with most former radio people, Addie just could not stay away. She is now news reporting and anchoring for KURV News Radio 710AM.