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92.5 K-BUC Debuts In San Antonio

930 was country at one point was country as KCCW.

Stations were able to skirt the COL rules even before dereg. I recall working at KCSW 103.7 now KBPA 103.5 licensed to San Marcos. They had a San Marcos news bureau and IIRC orginated their public affairs block from San Marcos, too. But that's all that originated from San Marcos.
 
fredcantu said:
They may be calling it K-BUC but as far as I know the KBUC-FM calls are still at 102.1 in Raymondville down in the Valley.

Also to add to your list I believe KBUC was on AM 810 back when it was licensed to Cibolo and on AM 1310 when it was simulcast on 107.5.
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I was in a restaurant a while back they had a sign up of KBUC on 1310, I didn't know they were on 1310 back in the day. I thought about taking a picture of the sign but didn't have my phone at the time.
 
willdav713 said:
So KBUC remained on 1310 when it moved from 106.3 to 107.5?
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Yes. KBUC remained on 1310 when it moved to 107.5. I don't remember exactly when Tengalia bought it, but the FM switched to KZVE "Que Suave" and the AM to KXTN shortly afterward.

I wonder if one time KBUC was on AM 930 (not AM 830) which is also Terrell Hills COL as 106.3 was?
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As far as I know, that never was the case, though I suppose it's possible as AM's were usually paired up with FM's. However, I suspect KBUC simply passed on its FM or turned in the license early on. Sigmor tended to do a little more with FM, and I suspect they bought 106.3 from 930's owner. I'm thinking 930 was actually a later arrival to the AM scene, though it wasn't as late as 720 or 760.

I'd be curious as to which FM signal was supposed to have been connected to 1310. I'd guess 96.1 because it was a standalone for years, and 760 didn't come along until the 80's. It's also the only legacy commercial FM I can remember ever being a standalone, though I don't think 680 had an FM sister station originally either. 100.3 was bought later and was originally paired up with 1150 (now 1160). I know WOAI went without an FM sister station for several years, too, but I seem to remember hearing it was originally paired up with 97.3. San Antonio Broadcasting bought 97.3 and bought WOAI a few years later, thus putting the original cluster back together.
 
Got a chance to listen to the station while I was in town this past weekend. Very great station. I always wanted to hear classic country on FM in SA after hearing Country Legends 97.1 in Houston. Too bad 92.5's signal is terrible, even on the northwest side of town. Are they going to release a stream on IHeartRadio?
 
I can probably answer some of the questions you have about the original KBUC, since I worked there from 1982-84 just after Ricky Ware left and Tom East started doing mornings with Jud Ashmore.
KBUC was on 1310-AM daytime only and 107.5 24 hours when I was there. We played a mix of classic and current country and had a full service news department. The station was not owned by Sigmore, it was owned by the man who started Sigmore, Tom E. Turner. The company was called TETCO and it owned two stations in San Antonio (KBUC AM-FM), two in Belton and two in Corpus Christi along with Sigmore, Mission Trucking and had a stake in Bexar Savings Bank. Back in those days two stations per market was the maximum the FCC let anyone own. The talent line-up at the time was one of the best in the nation for any country station.
Mornings-Tom East-Jud Ashmore
Mid Morning-Ron Houston
Early Afternoon-Max Gardner
Afternoon Drive-Gene Kelly
Evenings-Mike Clay (and I was the news guy for the evening show)

As far as the discussions of 930 AM, it was never affiliated with KBUC. It started as KITE in the 60's and 70's and was the AM station that was affiliated with KEXL 104.5, which eventually became KITE-FM in the late 70's. It then switched to KCCW country and then to KRNN news talk in 1984 (which is the station I worked for after I left KBUC.) From there it switched to all talk in 1986 and eventually spanish before it became a MOR-Music of your Life station and now a news-talk once again, except now it's mostly satellite programming, when it was KRNN is was almost all local talk.
My dad was also in the San Antonio market (George Wood) from the late 50's to his death in 1990 so I have a pretty good knowledge of that time in San Antonio radio and TV. Let me know if you guys have any questions.
 
RobertWood said:
I can probably answer some of the questions you have about the original KBUC, since I worked there from 1982-84 just after Ricky Ware left and Tom East started doing mornings with Jud Ashmore.
KBUC was on 1310-AM daytime only and 107.5 24 hours when I was there. We played a mix of classic and current country and had a full service news department. The station was not owned by Sigmore, it was owned by the man who started Sigmore, Tom E. Turner. The company was called TETCO and it owned two stations in San Antonio (KBUC AM-FM), two in Belton and two in Corpus Christi along with Sigmore, Mission Trucking and had a stake in Bexar Savings Bank. Back in those days two stations per market was the maximum the FCC let anyone own. The talent line-up at the time was one of the best in the nation for any country station.
Mornings-Tom East-Jud Ashmore
Mid Morning-Ron Houston
Early Afternoon-Max Gardner
Afternoon Drive-Gene Kelly
Evenings-Mike Clay (and I was the news guy for the evening show)

As far as the discussions of 930 AM, it was never affiliated with KBUC. It started as KITE in the 60's and 70's and was the AM station that was affiliated with KEXL 104.5, which eventually became KITE-FM in the late 70's. It then switched to KCCW country and then to KRNN news talk in 1984 (which is the station I worked for after I left KBUC.) From there it switched to all talk in 1986 and eventually spanish before it became a MOR-Music of your Life station and now a news-talk once again, except now it's mostly satellite programming, when it was KRNN is was almost all local talk.
My dad was also in the San Antonio market (George Wood) from the late 50's to his death in 1990 so I have a pretty good knowledge of that time in San Antonio radio and TV. Let me know if you guys have any questions.
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And Tom's wife Kay ran for Mayor against Bill Thorton in 1994. My parents backyard is only a couple of back yards down from the Turner Mansion on Nacodogches. I ran for Mayor too just like Kay back in 2011.

Didn't Former Houston Mayor Bill White work for TETCO as well?

Since you know a lot about San Antonio Radio and TV do you know if AM 1310 when it was KPOZ was it still owned by Techinor Media?

And what was that TV station that was on Roger's Cable Channel 37 back in 1988? It wasn't HSE it was some weird combination of Premium and Sports PPV of some sort.
 
Not sure about the Rogers cable question. As far as KPOZ I know several folks who worked there, including George Cooper, who I did mornings with on KONO for 4 years and Rick (Dan) Upton who was the program director for most of my years there at Power 93 KITY. I'm not sure about the ownership at that time. That was around 1990 and 91 and I had already left the market to come do a morning show at KLBJ-AM in Austin.
 
I'm pretty sure 1310 was owned by Tichenor/HBC/Univision from '93 until it was swapped to RadioWorks. The KPOZ format was an LMA.
 
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