Thanks for sharing ....... I have fond memories of 'KOR from living in Tupelo in the '70s, listening through the fuzz. For a small city, they had a big sound. You (or whomever rolled tape) caught northeast Mississippi radio as it was finally waking up. 'KOR was the only good-sounding rocker for much of that decade, as the Tupelo dial pre-1979 was *dreadful*.
'HKW was cookin' in 1980 - too bad it hadn't yet increased power when I was in that area. WZLQ "Z-99" had launched a short time earlier, late in '79, finally bringing a good hit music sound to Tupelo. At first automated like the beautiful music station it replaced (as WELO-FM). The brief clip here shows how canned it sounded; Z went live in 1982 or '83, and they took off -- it was THE station in N.E. Miss. later in the '80s.
It was great hearing the late Ed Bishop, longtime TV personality/exec and main "voice" of Tupelo's NBC affiliate WTVA Ch. 9.
--Russell
