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...a long-gone FM station in Austin

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The web site, SonobeatRecords.com, is featuring the history of KAZZ-FM @ 95.5 in Austin. A very detailed story of its struggles.
Yes, it too, had its share of shoe-strings & band-ades. The frequency, 95.5, was kinda like an orphan being passed around for recognition.
Lastly entered the Josey's. A father-son duo awakened it as "The" trend-setter in the Austin music scene.
I lived in Austin 1965-67. Frequent visitor to a very small warm, friendly staff. Still a #1 fan.
Recommend reading and visiting the website. Its connection to the music scene/artists is not to be "under-rated."
 
Direct link is here: The KAZZ-Sonobeat Connection

Note there are eight links at the bottom of the site for continuing the story.

I grew up in Austin in the 1960’s, but only have vague memories of KAZZ, as I didn’t have a personal FM receiver while KAZZ was on the air (my parents had a nice FM hi-fi in the living room, but it was usually on either KTBC-FM or KHFI-FM when not listening to records.) Of course AM musicradio was king in those days, and I did have my own AM radio from an early age.

I do recall that KAZZ always seemed to be a mishmash of different music, due to the block programming. I also remember meeting KAZZ owner Monroe Lopez when we ate at one of his restaurants, when my parents mentioned to him hearing advertising for the place on KAZZ.

The 840 watt signal was pretty modest, even by the standards of those days. When it flipped to KOKE-FM the power was raised to 10kw, which is the best they could do with a co-channel existing in Waco. Years later the Waco station changed frequency which allowed 95.5 to ramp up to 100kw.
 
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