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A LOOK BACK...

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jeffdfw

I thought it might be fun to look at the Top 10 stations in D/FW 30, 20 & 10 years ago...

12+ Ratings for October/November 1978

Q102 emerges and knocks The Zoo from the Top 10... Easy Listening was popular huh?
WBAP was still a music format...KNUS 99 "The Top Banana" was on the air

Call Letters Frequency Format
KVIL-A/F 1150/103.7 Adult Contemporary
WBAP 820 Country
KRLD 1080 News
KSCS 96.3 Country
KMEZ 100.3 Easy Listening
KOAX 105.3 Easy Listening
KKDA-FM 104.5 Disco
KFJZ-FM 97.1 Top 40
KTXQ * 102.1 Rock
KNUS 98.7 Top 40
* was KFWD until October 6.

12+ Ratings for Winter 1988

K104 has switched from Disco to Urban... Y95 beats The Eagle in the Battle of the Top 40 stations... WBAP is still playing country

Call Letters Frequency Format
KKDA-FM 104.5 Urban
KVIL-A/F 1150/103.7 Adult Contemporary
KPLX 99.5 Country
KRLD 1080 News/Talk
KHYI 94.9 Top 40
KMEZ-A/F 1480/100.3 Easy Listening
WBAP 820 Country
KEGL 97.1 Top 40
KTXQ 102.1 Rock
KSCS 96.3 Country

12+ Ratings for Winter 1998

Things start to look a little more familiar... KISS FM is #1... WBAP is News/Talk now... Mix 102.9 is on the scene and K-LUV is spinning Oldies

Call Letters Frequency Format
KHKS 106.1 CHR
KKDA-FM 104.5 Urban
KSCS 96.3 Country
KVIL 103.7 Adult Contemporary
WBAP 820 News/Talk
KRLD 1080 News/Talk
KDMX 102.9 Hot AC
KLUV 98.7 Oldies
KYNG 105.3 Country
KLTY 94.1 Christian AC
KZPS 92.5 Classic Rock

Kinda makes ya wonder what the dial will look like in 2018... ???
 
>>Kinda makes ya wonder what the dial will look like in 2018

I'll take a stab at it:

1. KAAM 770 (after relenting to the fact that 80s and 90s are REALLY oldies now, you hear Coldplay and Kool Moe D mixed with Tony Bennett and Dinah Washington.)

2. WBAP 820/96.3 (after the massive fire at the 2013 CMAs, there were no real country artists left...so 63-yr old station manager Mark Davis flips KSCS back to the old WBAP-FM, simulcasting the AM side)

3. XM/Sirius channel 9 (1990s oldies)

4. NOAA Weatheradio

5. KLLI 105.3 (now 33 years old, Gavin Spittle outlasts Kurt, David and the gang to become Cluster President [which now pays $6.75 per hour;] his persistence in keeping 58 yr-old Russ Martin on the air pays off yet again, even after Russ's 2010 murder trial and conviction. Martin broadcasts live from Huntsville daily over a wind turbine internet connection.)

6. KEOM 88.5 (50 yr-old Robert Bass buys the station for a song after major budget cutbacks by the Mesquite ISD; he's let a BIG rumor out of the bag that the station might just switch formats to 80s Pop soon, possibly in January, 2019...meanwhile, 1970 has been 48 years ago now.

7. Steve Eberhart's low-power AM station.

8. Police calls.

9. WFAA-AM/FM (Belo finally realizes the mistake it made by divesting its radio properties...and the nice engraved 1961 marble placque at the entry to Communications Center will not have to be changed after all--it still says WFAA-AM/FM.)

10. KCHP (K-Chap 96.7) (83 yr old Ron Chapman continues the tradition of Memories and Platinum by bringing in an ALL-NEW format of 60s and 70s soft oldies. 64 yr-old Cat Simon does the morning show.)

Meanwhile, HD Radio is ALL the rage, having finally caught on in 2017. Meanwhile, a programming glitch in all iPODs manufactured after 2001 renders the units worthless, as Apple forgot to implement a "Y2K"-type protective routine...and listeners are forced to return to terrestrial radio. With that news, CBS stock shoots up to a 10-year high of 23 cents, and even 97 yr-old Lowry Mays toys with the idea of buying up about 1,400 stations and rebuilding his empire.
 
I'm showing my age, or maybe my ears are just tired. But the radio dial would be a nicer place of KOAX or KMEZ were still around!
 
317C50KW said:
I'm showing my age, or maybe my ears are just tired. But the radio dial would be a nicer place of KOAX or KMEZ were still around!
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AMEN to that!
 
Dan Dennis said:
317C50KW said:
I'm showing my age, or maybe my ears are just tired. But the radio dial would be a nicer place of KOAX or KMEZ were still around!
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AMEN to that!
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Or the 106.1 version of KOAI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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