I meant to respond but it is hard to always find the time. I remember KOAI. I listened to it a little a few times when I went to Dallas as I liked Smooth Jazz back then.
KGLC 100.9 Miami, OK may have been mostly preaching and teaching but I could only hear it when KLRC 101.1 signed off at midnight and at midnight I remember hearing worship music.
You probably have a better memory of KGLC at that time than I do as I rarely listened to it. I remember 910 being KVIS "The King's Vision" and doing southern gospel and preaching, but I didn't listen much to 100.9. Around '89 or '90, KGLC was on 910 as "Sizzlin' Country 91." 100.9 was KSSM and ran an AC format. By '91, the country format was on both as "KGLC/KSSM." Once the country audience was transitioned to 100.9, the KGLC calls moved there, and 910 became KVIS. Did you know Nina Valente when you were at JBU? She was a Virginia native who moved to NWA for college at JBU. She was an acquaintance of mine and did weekends at Magic 107.9 her senior year. Her first job out of college was KGVE 99.3 and spent several years at K 95 FM in Tulsa. She worked in Ft. Smith after KWEN and returned to Tulsa a few years later.
I remember KREB 99.5 being CCM but I can't remember when it was or if it was when I was there 1992-1994. As you said I don't think it lasted very long,
I believe it flipped sometime in 1994. It was definitely "B99.5" and running CCM in the first half of 1995, and it flipped to SMN/ABC oldies "99.5 Kool FM" in the middle of the summer of '95. I remember being "The Rebel" in January '94 when I arrived. That semester, KISK "102 Kiss" became KKZQ "Q102" (and launched with "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by BTO), and KOLZ "Oldies 98.3" became "Soft Rock Z-98.3." One of my dorm neighbors said something weird was going on at 98.3, which had begun playing Bonnie Raitt's "Something to Talk About" on loop, and it became Z-98.3 at midnight. He heard it launch, but I was already in bed. I actually preferred Z to Magic, though I liked the 70's weekends Magic started doing that semester. Z didn't last long as a soft rock station, though. It flipped to Top-40/CHR, and Hollie, the girlfriend I mentioned in the KKEG thread, seemed to prefer it to Power 105.7. The Top-40 version of Z-98.3 didn't last long either. By the time I returned for the Fall '95 semester, it was country, KFAY-FM (though it was still ID'ing as "KOLZ Bentonville" for a few weeks).
92.1 and 98.3, BTW, were the first duopoly in the region. Pat Demaree managed to swing a deal with the Hutchinsons that landed them KKIP 1440 and him KBCV 98.3 before duopoly was legal. At the time, the primary signal contours of 92.1 and 98.3 didn't overlap, and Benton County was largely a separate radio market from Fayetteville/Springdale.
From Siloam Springs I did listen some to KOBC 90.7 especially my first year. I remember my first night there I had to stay at someone's house who worked at JBU before they found a dorm room for me, I had to sleep in the living room. It was after midnight and since KLRC was off the air I turned his living room radio to KOBC 90.7. I would also listen to KOBC on 100.1 in Fayetteville when I went their. I think I remember 100.1 being off the air the last few times I was in Fayetteville.
That translator at 100.1 also relayed KZKZ out of Ft. Smith for a bit. I can remember both it and KOBC on 100.1. I remember being off-the-air a lot in the mid-90's, too. I always got KRLK (now KOMC-FM) on 100.1 when the translator was off-air. KRLK was a KKBL simulcast licensed to Cassville at the time, and KRMO simulcasted those two on the weekends but went back to its country format during the week.
I do not remember listening to KOBC my last year there but my memory is hazy. I think maybe they might not have played a lot of music at the times I wanted to listen or I had trouble receiving them. It is hard to remember. I don't think KOBC 90.7 is receivable anymore in Siloam Springs and Fayetteville because they changed to a directional antenna in 1998 so that their signal is better to the north but worse to the south.
I never really tried listening to it in Fayetteville, though I remember getting it. I was gone by the time the directional antenna was installed. If I was going to listen to Joplin stations, it was going to either be KSYN 92.5 or KOCD 105.3. I could get both of those in my apartment on the home stereo, though, as you might have guessed, 105.3 was a tad less crisp and reliable. The only Joplin area FM's I could easily get in the dorm my first semester were 92.5 and KKOW-FM 96.9.
