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90s hits for the beaches

purpledevil said:
IIRC, KSTB was licensed to another community before the downgrade as well. I distinctly remember it being "The Star of the Bay" with a good signal from Baybrook area down to the causeway. Seems like it was Clear Lake City. Was a pretty good local station back in its day.
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No, it was always licensed to Crystal Beach, but it was formerly a Class C3, running 25kW. It's now a Class A with 6kW. The studio locations (a couple of them) were in the Clear Lake area, Webster and Nassau Bay, as I recall.

purpledevil said:
jd, slight correction to your post: 104.9 moved from Missouri City to Deer Park. 105.3 is the one that is in the process of relocating to Winnie coupled with 100.7 KKHT heading up the road to Lumberton.
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You're right, and thanks for catching that. I skipped a step in the history of the frequencies in that area. Beginning in 1987 there were two stations on 104.9, one in Rosenberg and another in Galveston. Numerous sets of call letters were used between the stations over the years, with Rosenberg upgrading and moving to Missouri City. That was made possible when the Galveston 104.9 moved to Crystal Beach and switched to 105.3, setting up the KPTY/KPTI simulcast arrangement. Of course 104.9 switched calls to KAMA, moved to Deer Park, and 105.3 Crystal Beach has the KPTY call letters.

purpledevil said:
What benefit is KKHT getting out of moving to Lumberton, and what would be the issue with Winnie having 2 services?
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There was no issue with Winnie having two services, but all of the moves of the stations also resulted in blocking an application for a new station over in Vinton LA on 105.3 and would have precluded a move of KYKZ to Lumberton. They would have had a hard time convincing the FCC that Lumberton needed three stations (two FM, one AM). You're right above there being no benefit for KKHT so far as COL goes, but they were compensated.
 
This is exactly the same format that was running on KDBN HD-2 (93.3) for a long time in Dallas, and was supposed to be on a bunch more HD-2s that Cumulus took over from Susquehanna prior to the Susq-Cumulus merger.

btw, does the vo guy sound like Mark Driscoll?? Then it's the same one I heard when I was in Dallas..
 
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