94.3 KBAU Question ( KLEB 94.3 TOO)

[thebeach33445]

Hey Guys:

I just want to make sure I am right on Bayou 94 KBAU 94.3's format timeline:

1. KBAU: AC 1985 to 1988.

2. KBAU: Top 40 1988 to 1992.

3. KBAU: back to AC 1992 to 1993.

If I am wrong please let me know.

One more thing: did 94.3 KLEB simucast 1600 KLEB from 1967 to 1975?

Thanks!!
T.J.

 

[RFLA]

The person to ask would be another on here but I do know that after the AC, it was country for a while before flipping to oldies and the current WTIX name. Previously it was KZZQ back in the early 1980s

 

[gjroussejr]

1: KLEB-FM simulcast w/ KLEB 1600
2: KZZQ-FM (Z-94) 1975-1982 Top 40/AOR(From Z Format by Century 21 Same as KTDY and KSMI Donaldsonville) '82-85 AC (Jones sattelite network)
3: KBAU-FM (Bayou 94) Top 40 '85-'88
4: KLEB-FM Country till being sold to Michael Costello as it's present incarnation as WTIX-FM

 

[gjroussejr]

Almost forgot to add for about a couple of months in '82 Z-94 had fliped to an AC format from centruy 21 till they connected to jones. In '85 after KLEB/KZZQ was sold to Harold Callias from KLEB Broadcasting they used the old Z format Reel to Reel Tapes during the move to the new studios at 315 callias lane in Golden Meadow Broadcasting from 6am to 8pm for a week.

 

[thatwasradio]

All I can add to this is that while I lived down there 1991 to 1995, KLEB FM was the worst-sounding radio station I had ever heard in my life up to that time, no processing on the mic, obviously no Optimod as the audio was always very low and uncompressed, music from four different formats, jocks who obviously had no direction and could care less about being "local", and more dead air than programming audio, seriously.

 

[gjroussejr]

All I can add to this is that while I lived down there 1991 to 1995, KLEB FM was the worst-sounding radio station I had ever heard in my life up to that time, no processing on the mic, obviously no Optimod as the audio was always very low and uncompressed, music from four different formats, jocks who obviously had no direction and could care less about being "local", and more dead air than programming audio, seriously.

Agreed; During that time Harold only used the stations as a tax write off. The format was jones country sat feed, but nobody there new how to program the computer correctly. He used the technitions from his cable company to repair the station. At the end of his ownership the FM was hardly audible and the AM has a loud buzzing noise on it. After Michael bought the FM he put a lot of money to repair the old Larose Transmitter before getting new facilities in Plaqumine Parrish.

 

[thatwasradio]

Oh Gawd, I forgot about that cable outlet, it was just as bad! I remember this was when the Sci-Fi channel first came out, it was so fuzzy, snowy, and dim on Callais Cable you could BARELY make out the planet Saturn in the bottom right corner on that channel. I used to call them and ask why I am paying for this channel to look so bad, and they told me it was a "test" channel, for FOUR YEARS it was a "test" channel, but they sure did run a ton of local spots on it...