1540 STUNTING

[MikeShannon914]

I included this under the "La Luz" post, but knowing how you radioheads LOVE stunting, I'm posting it here too. Just a repeating message telling you to tune to 104.9 for what sounds like "Salami and Mustard." Maybe that's the new morning team there.

While we're at it, let's reflect on the 1540 frequency that holds the record for the most call letter changes EVER in DFW:

1949 - KCUL
1967 - KBUY
1976 - KRXV
1978 - KMZK
1979 - KTIA
1983 - KUQQ
1985 - KMIA
1988 - KSVZ
1989 - KSGB
1993 - KTNO
1997 - KPAD
1997 - KZMP

Wow, 12 changes in 57 years, and probably one more on the way.

 

[Robert Bass]

Mike,

What is the call letter change record again for 94.9? Something like 10?

Thanks,

R

 

[Mediafrog+]

Wow, 12 changes in 57 years, and probably one more on the way.

And three transmitter sites in the last quarter century.

 

[Mediafrog+]

What is the call letter change record again for 94.9? Something like 10?

KCLE-FM > KFAD > KAMC > KWJS > KJIM > KLTY > KHYI > KODZ > KSNN > KEWS > KWRD > KLTY. Whew!

 

[jd]

Wow, 12 changes in 57 years, and probably one more on the way.

And three transmitter sites in the last quarter century.

Okay, I'm stumped. The Kennedale site for umpteen years and their present site in Grand Prairie...there was another one?

 

[Mediafrog+]

Okay, I'm stumped. The Kennedale site for umpteen years and their present site in Grand Prairie...there was another one?

1540 had a site SE of Dallas for a while starting in the late 80's...I recall at sign-off the announcement would refer to their transmitter "17 miles southeast of downtown Dallas." It was definitely no longer the Kennedale site at the time, as the signal nulled SSE from my listening point in Richardson, and the nighttime signal there was actually fairly decent. The old Kennedale site's night signal into north Dallas county was virtually nonexistent.

The initial move after Kennedale might have been when the COL changed to University Park. The Kennedale site was always solid into FW.

 

[jd]

Okay, I'm stumped. The Kennedale site for umpteen years and their present site in Grand Prairie...there was another one?

1540 had a site SE of Dallas for a while starting in the late 80's...I recall at sign-off the announcement would refer to their transmitter "17 miles southeast of downtown Dallas." It was definitely no longer the Kennedale site at the time, as the signal nulled SSE from my listening point in Richardson, and the nighttime signal there was actually fairly decent. The old Kennedale site's night signal into north Dallas county was virtually nonexistent.

The initial move after Kennedale might have been when the COL changed to University Park. The Kennedale site was always solid into FW.

Man, I must have missed the memo on that one, or lost some brain cells in the late 80's...anyway, thanks for the info. Yep, the daytime signal from the old Kennedale site was definitely solid. I know some older folks who lived in southeast Fort Worth and got the old KCUL/KBUY signal on their phones or on guitar amps, and there was more one report of their teeth vibrating to the 50,000 watt signal on 1540!

 

[Bob E. Nelson]

Okay, I'm stumped. The Kennedale site for umpteen years and their present site in Grand Prairie...there was another one?

1540 had a site SE of Dallas for a while starting in the late 80's...I recall at sign-off the announcement would refer to their transmitter "17 miles southeast of downtown Dallas." It was definitely no longer the Kennedale site at the time, as the signal nulled SSE from my listening point in Richardson, and the nighttime signal there was actually fairly decent. The old Kennedale site's night signal into north Dallas county was virtually nonexistent.

The initial move after Kennedale might have been when the COL changed to University Park. The Kennedale site was always solid into FW.

The referenced site was just beyond Seagoville in Gastonia, off US 175. It was just a single stick (and appeared to be one that may have moved from Kennedale). As I recall, the calls when this happened were KSGB and then became KTNO shortly thereafter. I think they were running relatively low power from there, certainly not the 50,000 watts of the KCUL/KBUY era.

 

[MikeShannon914]

Re: All over now

It's music now, some sort of Pakistani disco and rap. I heard artists like Madonnesh, P. Allahdiddy, The Captain and Kamil, Khadir and the Sunshine Band, etc. :'(

Yet another loss for those who expected Air America (or its successor) to show up there.

 

[Robert Bass]

It's music now, some sort of Pakistani disco and rap. I heard artists like Madonnesh, P. Allahdiddy, The Captain and Kamil, Khadir and the Sunshine Band, etc. :'(

OUCH!

R

 

[txchipk]

Re: All over now

It's music now, some sort of Pakistani disco and rap. I heard artists like Madonnesh, P. Allahdiddy, The Captain and Kamil, Khadir and the Sunshine Band, etc. :'(

Yet another loss for those who expected Air America (or its successor) to show up there.

The loop was directing people to 104.9 since that is where the brokered ethnic programming on 1540 apparently was moving to. 104.9 has been off the air all day. I assume some technical problem with 104.9, so it looks like they just stopped the "turn to 104.9" loop and put back on the programming that would have been on 104.9. I would think once 104.9 is back up, 1540 will flip to whatever it was going to be.

I would imagine LBI will just lease it out again...